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The Persian Sibyl – also known as the Babylonian, Chaldaean, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl – was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle. The word "Sibyl" comes (via Latin ) from the ancient Greek word sibylla , meaning " prophetess ".
Sibylla (Old French: Sibyl; c. 1159 – 25 July 1190) was the queen of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. She reigned alongside her husband Guy of Lusignan, to whom she was unwaveringly attached despite his unpopularity among the barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Sibylla was the eldest daughter of King Amalric and the only daughter of Agnes of ...
"“Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre" [5] "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel. [6]"Lamentation" (Hebrew: קינה; plural: קִינִים in Ezekiel 2:10 or קִּינֽוֹת in 2 Chronicles 35:25): the Hebrew word has a meaning of "elegy, dirge", "a mournful song", [7] [8] a funeral song in the New Living Translation.
The English word sibyl (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl /) is from Middle English, via the Old French sibile and the Latin sibylla from the ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Sibylla). [5] Varro derived the name from an Aeolic sioboulla, the equivalent of Attic theobule ("divine counsel"). [6] This etymology is not accepted in modern handbooks, which list the ...
Sibylla of Anjou (died 1165), countess of Flanders; Sibylla of Armenia (c. 1240–1290), princess of Antioch; Sibylla of Anhalt (1514–1614), duchess of Württemberg; Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908–1972), mother of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden; Sibilla Aleramo (1876 –1960), Italian poet; Sibylla Budd (born c. 1977 ...
A sample page from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Genesis 1,1-16a).. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH 4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes.
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. [5] "Burden" (Hebrew: מַשָּׂ֖א): the keyword in the superscriptions for a total of nine similar oracles; the others being: Isaiah 13:1; 15:1; 17:1; 19:1; 21:1, 11, 13; 22:1. [6]
Abibaal (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: ʾabībaʿl, "My father is Baal") was a king of Tyre in the 10th century BC, [1] father of the famous Hiram I.The only information known about him is derived from two passages in Josephus's Against Apion, i.117 and i.118. [2]