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Haman, stung by Mordecai's refusal, resolved to kill not only Mordecai but all Jewish exiles throughout the Persian empire, and won the king's permission to carry out his plan. Mordecai communicated Haman's scheme to Queen Esther, who used her favor with the king to reverse the scheme, leading the king to authorize Jews to kill their enemies ...
Qi, a vital force in traditional Chinese philosophy; Élan vital, a hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms; Spirit (vital essence), a vital principle or animating force within all living things; Vijñāna, an Indic term for ideas related to discernment, mind/consciousness, life force, etc.
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
Atropos (/ ˈ æ t r ə p ɒ s /, Greek Ἄτροπος, , "inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning", [37] was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time has come, she cut their life-thread with her "abhorred shears". [38] Her Roman equivalent was Morta ("the dead one").
Mordecai, a character in Gearbox Software's Borderlands; Mordecai Heller, a male feline character in the webcomic Lackadaisy; Mordechai Jefferson Carver, a character from the film The Hebrew Hammer; Mordecai Green, fictional lawyer for the poor in John Grisham's The Street Lawyer; Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi, character from the sci-fi television show ...
According to Christian universalism, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word aión (αἰών) to mean a long period and the word aiṓnion (αἰώνιον) to mean "during a long period"; thus, there was a time before the aeons, and the aeonian period is finite. After each person's mortal life ends, they are judged worthy of aeonian ...
Bia and her siblings were constant companions of Zeus. [4] They achieved this honour after supporting him in the Titan War along with their mother. [5] Bia is one of the characters named in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, attributed to Aeschylus, where Hephaestus is compelled by the gods to bind Prometheus after he was caught stealing fire and offering the gift to mortals.
Malachi or Malachias (/ ˈ m æ l ə k aɪ / ⓘ; Hebrew: מַלְאָכִי , Modern: Malʾaḵī, Tiberian: Malʾāḵī, "my messenger") is the name used by the author of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Nevi'im (Prophets) section of the Tanakh.