enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glory (religion) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(religion)

    Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the Abrahamic religions.. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate ...

  3. Hod (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hod_(Kabbalah)

    Hod (Hebrew הוֹד Hōḏ, lit. 'majesty, splendour, glory') [1] [2] is the eighth sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. It is positioned on the left side of the tree beneath Gevurah (severity) and directly opposite Netzach (eternity). Hod is associated with qualities such as submission, humility, and intellectual rigor.

  4. Kushiel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushiel

    Kushiel is one of seven angels of punishment along with Hutriel, Lahatiel, Makatiel, Puriel (also written Pusiel), Rogziel and Shoftiel. [2]As a "presiding angel of Hell," he is said to punish nations with a whip made of fire, [1] although, along with the other angels of punishment, is reported in Second Book of Enoch 10:3 to dwell in the third heaven.

  5. Jewish symbolism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_symbolism

    The ephod typified the four elements, and the interwoven gold denoted the glory of God. The breastplate was in the center of the ephod, as the earth formed the center of the universe; the girdle symbolized the ocean, the stones on the shoulders the sun and moon, and the jewels in the breastplate the twelve signs of the zodiac, while the miter ...

  6. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism

    The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law.

  7. Theophory in the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophory_in_the_Bible

    Theophory is the practice of embedding the name of a god or a deity in, usually, a proper name. [note 1] Much Hebrew theophory occurs in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible).

  8. Hell in Christianity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christianity

    A detail from Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell (16th century). In Christian theology, Hell is the place or state into which, by God's definitive judgment, unrepentant sinners pass in the general judgment, or, as some Christians believe, immediately after death (particular judgment).

  9. Gehenna - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

    The Hebrew Bible refers to the valley as the "Valley of the son of Hinnom" (Hebrew: גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם), [1] [8] or "Valley of Hinnom" (גֵי־הִנֹּם). [9] In Mishnaic Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic languages, the name was contracted into Gēhīnnōm (גֵיהִינֹּם) or Gēhīnnām (גֵיהִינָּם) meaning "hell".