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Sepharad (/ ˈ s ɛ f ər æ d / SEF-ər-ad [1] or / s ə ˈ f ɛər ə d / sə-FAIR-əd; [2] [3] Hebrew: סְפָרַד, romanized: Səp̄āraḏ, Israeli pronunciation:; also Sfard, Spharad, Sefarad, or Sephared) is the Hebrew-language name for the Iberian Peninsula, consisting of both modern-time Western Europe's Spain and Portugal, especially in reference to the local Jews before their ...
Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
Moloch. Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom, the location of the tophet, just outside the city of ancient Jerusalem, where Moloch rituals were performed according to 2 Kings 23:10. [ 1] Moloch, Molech, or Molek[ a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that ...
The Eye of Providence can be found on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, as seen on the U.S. $1 bill, depicted here. The Eye of Providence or All-Seeing Eye is a symbol depicting an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by a ray of light or a halo, intended to represent Providence, as the eye watches over the workers ...
Raphael ( Arabic: إسرافيل, romanized : ʾIsrāfīl, alternate spellings: Israfel, Esrafil) [citation needed] is a venerated archangel according to Islamic tradition. In Islamic eschatology, Israfil will blow the trumpet from a holy rock in Jerusalem to announce the Day of Judgment ( Yawm al-Qiyāmah ).
The Eye of Horus, also known as left wedjat eye or udjat eye, specular to the Eye of Ra (right wedjat eye), is a concept and symbol in ancient Egyptian religion that represents well-being, healing, and protection. It derives from the mythical conflict between the god Horus with his rival Set, in which Set tore out or destroyed one or both of ...
In the law of the Hebrews, the "eye for eye" was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss. Thus, it might be better read 'only one eye for one eye'. [ 2] The idiomatic biblical phrase "an eye for an eye" in Exodus and Leviticus ( Hebrew: עין תחת עין, romanized : ayin tachat ayin) literally means 'an eye under/ (in place of) an ...
Shem HaMephorash ( Hebrew: שֵׁם הַמְּפֹרָשׁ Šēm hamMəfōrāš, also Shem ha-Mephorash ), meaning "the explicit name," was originally a Tannaitic term for the Tetragrammaton. [ 1] In Kabbalah, it may refer to a name of God composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters), the latter version being the most ...