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Priscilla illustration from the Women of the Bible, Harold Copping. Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive for Prisca which was her formal name. She is often thought to have been the first example of a female preacher or teacher in early church ...
This table is a list of names in the Bible in their native languages. This table is only in its beginning stages. There are thousands of names in the Bible. It will take the work of many Wikipedia users to make this table complete.
Lists of biblical names (26 P) Pages in category "Bible-related lists of people" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative , as in the case of Nabal , a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1 ] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations , or are used to illustrate prophecies .
In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: nomen sacrum, Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists of two or more letters from the original word spanned by an overline.
Source: 2 Timothy 3:8, [10] Book of Jasher chapter 79 [11] Antiquities of the Jews Book 2 [12] Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ Chapter 109 [13] Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII [14] Easton's Bible Dictionary [15] The Book of the Bee Chapter 30 [16] Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII [17] Legends of the Jews Volume 2 Chapter 4, [18 ...
This article includes a list of biblical proper names that start with A in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.