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Delilah (/ dɪˈlaɪlə / dil-EYE-lə; Hebrew: דְּלִילָה, romanized:Dəlīlā, meaning "delicate"; [ 1 ] Arabic: دليلة, romanized:Dalīlah; Greek: Δαλιδά, romanized:Dalidá) is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. [ 2 ] She is loved by Samson, [ 2 ] a Nazirite who possesses ...
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Tintoretto, 1570s. Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, in art usually called Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, and other variant names, is a Biblical episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament which appears only in Luke's Gospel (Luke 10:38–42), immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). [1]
Order in the Christian part. 7. The episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War, [1] in Judges 19–21 concerns a Levite from Ephraim and his concubine. They travel through the Benjamite city of Gibeah and are assailed by a mob, who wish to gang-rape the Levite. He turns his concubine over to the crowd, and they rape her ...
t. e. Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course of important events while others are powerless to affect even their destinies. The majority of women in the Bible are anonymous and unnamed. Individual portraits of various women in ...
It stands at the corner of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Italy), next to Porta della Carta. The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon ordered the baby be cut in half, with each woman to receive one half.
Although we know more about stars and planets than they did in biblical times, the night sky still holds secrets we scientists cannot yet understand.
Naomi (biblical figure) Naomi (Classically / ˈneɪ.oʊmaɪ, neɪˈoʊmaɪ /, [ 1 ]colloquially / neɪˈoʊmi, ˈneɪ.oʊmi /; [ 2 ] Hebrew: נָעֳמִי, Modern: Noʻomī, Tiberian: Nā‘omī) is Ruth 's mother-in-law in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means "good ...
women. Mary Magdalene[ a ] (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. [ 1 ] She is mentioned by name twelve times in the canonical gospels, more than most ...