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  2. Altar (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    The Altar and its utensils were considered to be sacred, and the priests had to vest and wash their hands before touching them—even so much as removing the ashes from the altar. According to the Bible, the fire on the altar was lit directly by the hand of God and was not permitted to go out (Leviticus 6:12–13). No strange fire could be ...

  3. Bema - Wikipedia

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    In Greek law courts the two parties to a dispute presented their arguments each from separate bemas. By metonymy , bema was also a place of judgement, being the extension of the raised seat of the judge, as described in the New Testament , in Matthew 27:19 and John 19:13 , and further, as the seat of the Roman emperor , in Acts 25:10 , and of ...

  4. Altar (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek and some other languages used in the Byzantine Rite, the same word (βωμός in Greek) is used for an altar (in general) and for the area surrounding it; that is to say, the entire sanctuary. To refer unambiguously to the altar itself the terms "Holy Table" (Greek Ἁγία Τράπεζα) or "Throne" (chu Prestól) are used. [5]

  5. Tohu wa-bohu - Wikipedia

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    Tohuw is frequently used in the Book of Isaiah in the sense of "vanity", but bohuw occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis 1:2, the passage in Isaiah 34:11 mentioned above, [5] and in Jeremiah 4:23, which is a reference to Genesis 1:2), its use alongside tohu being mere paronomasia, and is given the equivalent translation of ...

  6. Anaphora (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    In the sacrificial language of the Greek version of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint, προσφέρειν (prospherein) is used of the offerer's bringing the victim to the altar, and ἀναφέρειν (anapherein) is used of the priest's offering up the selected portion upon the altar (see, for instance, Leviticus 2:14, 2:16, 3:1, 3:5).

  7. Asylum (antiquity) - Wikipedia

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    The Bible names six cities as being cities of refuge: Golan, Ramoth, and Bosor, on the east of the Jordan River, [1] and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side. [2] There is also an instance of Adonijah, after a failed coup, seeking refuge from the newly anointed Solomon by grasping the horns of a sacrificial altar.

  8. Royal doors - Wikipedia

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    More properly, however, these doors should be called the "Beautiful Gate", [3] and in Greek this is the only term used, although the official English sites of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church in America and the Antiochian Orthodox Church all use the term "Royal Doors". In Russia, they are sometimes called the "Red Gates", red ...

  9. Altar - Wikipedia

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    In Greek the word βωμός (bômós) can mean an altar of any religion or, in a broader sense, the area surrounding it; that is to say, the entire sanctuary. [36] In an Eastern Orthodox or a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic church this sanctuary includes both the area behind the iconostasis , and the soleas (the elevated projection in front of ...