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Yet other interpretations of תַּחַשׁ are "blue-processed skins" (Navigating the Bible II) and "(blue-)beaded skins" (Anchor Bible). Basilisk — occurs in the D.V. as a translation of several Hebrew names of snakes: פֶתֶן p̲et̲en (Psalms 90:13) - translated as "asp" in the KJV
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
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Based on his exegesis of Joshua 24:9, Ellicott (1905) argued that Balaam's curse against Israel and the war in Numbers 31 were two separate acts of hostility initiated by Balak. However, he admits that the Hebrew Bible does not sufficiently indicate whether this was the case. [39]
Daniel 8 is an interpretation of the author's own time, 167–164 BCE, with a claim that God will bring to an end the oppression of the Jewish people. [19] It begins with the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire , touches on the rise of the four Greek successor kingdoms, and then focuses on the career of Antiochus IV Epiphanes , who took the ...
The Roman war progressed triumphantly into the invader's territory, and the total overthrow of those people successfully ended the Parthian war. Roman conquest is demonstrated even in the most mighty of these wars: the Marcomannic Wars , a succession of victories under the second Antonine, unleashed on the German barbarians, who were driven ...
Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...
Eissfeldt's proposed meaning included both the act and the object of sacrifice. [4] Scholars such as W. von Soden argue that the term is a nominalized causative form of the verb ylk/wlk, meaning "to offer", "present", and thus means "the act of presenting" or "thing presented". [17]