enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: familiar spirits meaning in hebrew dictionary definition

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Familiar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar

    A late-16th-century English illustration of a witch feeding her familiars. In European folklore of the medieval and early modern periods, familiars (strictly familiar spirits, as "familiar" also meant just "close friend" or companion, and may be seen in the scientific name for dog, Canis familiaris) were believed to be supernatural entities, interdimensional beings, or spiritual guardians that ...

  3. Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_and_divination...

    The exact difference between the three forbidden forms of necromancy mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:11 is a matter of uncertainty; yidde'oni ("wizard") is always used together with ob ("consulter with familiar spirits"), [7] and its semantic similarity to doresh el ha-metim ("necromancer", or "one who directs inquiries to the dead") raises the ...

  4. Tutelary deity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutelary_deity

    A tutelary (/ ˈ tj uː t ə l ɛ r i /; also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation. The etymology of "tutelary" expresses the concept of safety and thus of guardianship.

  5. Spirit (animating force) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(animating_force)

    In philosophy and religion, spirit is the vital principle or animating essence within humans or, in some views, all living things.Although views of spirit vary between different belief systems, when spirit is contrasted with the soul, the former is often seen as a basic natural force, principle or substance, whereas the latter is used to describe the organized structure of an individual being ...

  6. Unclean spirit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_spirit

    Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...

  7. Holy Spirit in Judaism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_in_Judaism

    The following are some examples of the word ruacḥ (in reference to God's "spirit") in the Hebrew scriptures: [6] Genesis 1:2 "a wind from God sweeping over the water" [7] 1 Samuel 16:13 "and the spirit of the LORD gripped David from that day on." Psalm 143:10 "Let Your gracious spirit lead me on level ground."

  8. List of Hebrew dictionaries - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hebrew_dictionaries

    New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12] The modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by Despina Liozidou Shermister, first published in 2018; The Oxford English Hebrew dictionary, published in 1998 by the Oxford ...

  9. Ben-Yehuda Dictionary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Yehuda_Dictionary

    Ben-Yehuda's dictionary was the most popular and comprehensive dictionary of the Hebrew language among the people until "Even-Shoshan Dictionary" by Avraham Even-Shoshan was published. The dictionary made significant contributions to the lexicographic research of the Hebrew language.

  1. Ad

    related to: familiar spirits meaning in hebrew dictionary definition