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Rhoda (Biblical Greek: Ῥόδη, romanized: Rhodē) is a woman mentioned once in the New Testament. She appears only in Acts 12:12–15 . Rhoda was the first person to hear Peter after God freed him from prison , but no one believed her account that Peter was at the door because they knew he had been put in prison and couldn't believe that he ...
Rhoda is a female given name, originating in both Greek and Latin. Its primary meaning is " rose " but it can also mean "from Rhodes ", the Greek island originally named for its roses. The name was mostly used in the 18th and 19th centuries, but a Rhoda is mentioned once in the Bible in Acts .
Rhoda – Acts [169] ... She is given no name in the Bible, but is known as Zuleika (among other spellings) in Islamic and Jewish traditions. See also.
Acts 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the death of the first apostle, James, son of Zebedee, followed by the miraculous escape of Peter from prison, the death of Herod Agrippa I, and the early ministry of Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus.
Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2; Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9; Tischler, Nancy M., All Things in the Bible: An Encyclopedia of the Biblical World, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 ISBN 0-313 ...
A servant girl called Rhoda came to answer the door, and when she heard Peter's voice she was so overjoyed that she rushed to tell the others, and forgot to open the door for Peter (verse 14). Eventually Peter is let in and describes "how the Lord had brought him out of prison" (verse 17).
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
This episode takes place before the return of Jesus to Galilee. [1] Some Jews regarded the Samaritans as foreigners and their attitude was often hostile, although they shared most beliefs, while many other Jews accepted Samaritans as either fellow Jews or as Samaritan Israelites.