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The word flesh (from the Old English flǣsc, of Germanic origin) is translated from the Hebrew lexemes בשר bāśār and שאר šə’êr, and from the Greek σάρξ (sarx) and κρέας (kreas).
Other words that sometimes occur are bšr (flesh). [17] When put together with mlk, these words indicate a "mlk-sacrifice consisting of...". [32] The Biblical term lammolekh would thus be translated not as "to Moloch", as normally translated, but as "as a molk-sacrifice", a meaning consistent with uses of the Hebrew preposition la elsewhere. [33]
All flesh is grass (Hebrew: כָּל־הַבָּשָׂ֣ר חָצִ֔יר kol-habbāsār ḥāṣīr) [1] is a phrase found in the Old Testament book of Isaiah, chapter 40, verses 6–8. The English text in King James Version is as follows: [2] 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass,
The Hebrew term בְּרִית bĕriyth for "covenant" is from a root with the sense of "cutting", because pacts or covenants were made by passing between cut pieces of flesh of an animal sacrifice. [1] There are two major types of covenants in the Hebrew Bible, including the obligatory type and the promissory type. [2]
The noun incarnation derives from the ecclesiastical Latin verb incarno, itself derived from the prefix in-and caro, "flesh", meaning "to make into flesh" or, in the passive, "to be made flesh". The verb incarno does not occur in the Latin Bible but the term is drawn from the Gospel of John 1:14 " et Verbum caro factum est " ( Vulgate ), King ...
Augustine: "If men are disturbed however by its being said that the Word was made flesh, without mention of a soul; let them know that the flesh is put for the whole man, the part for the whole, by a figure of speech; as in the Psalms, Unto thee shall all flesh come; (Ps. 65:2) and again in Romans, By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh ...
Then the remaining ram flesh is boiled for Aaron and his sons to eat along with the remainder of the bread and cakes. In the Deuteronomy 8:8 it is mentioned as eretz zeit shemen in the description of the "good land": "A land of wheat and barley and the vine and figs and pomegranates, a land of olives for oil, and (date) honey". [1]
In its secondary meaning, the word mitzvah refers to a deed performed in order to fulfill such a commandment. As such, the term mitzvah has also come to express an individual act of human kindness in keeping with the law. The expression includes a sense of heartfelt sentiment beyond mere legal duty, as "you shall love your neighbor as yourself ...