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Biblical accounts. In 1 Timothy 1:20, Hymenaeus is included in the "some" who had put away faith and a good conscience and who had made shipwreck concerning faith. [ 2] The apostle adds that he had delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan, that they might learn not to blaspheme. Some have viewed this statement as similar to 1 Corinthians 5:5 ...
Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible . In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical .
e. " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image " ( Hebrew: לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, romanized : Lōʾ-t̲aʿăśeh lək̲ā p̲esel, wək̲ol-təmûnāh) is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, were spoken by God to the Israelites ...
The Hebrew Bible makes reference to a number of covenants (Hebrew: בְּרִיתוֹת) with God ().These include the Noahic Covenant set out in Genesis 9, which is decreed between God and all living creatures, as well as a number of more specific covenants with Abraham, the whole Israelite people, the Israelite priesthood, and the Davidic lineage of kings.
Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", [ 1] where literal means "in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words ...
A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone. The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the Christian Dictionarie (1612) of Thomas Wilson.
Rehoboth-Ir was a biblical town named in Genesis 10:11 as among those founded by Nimrod. [5] Its exact geographic location is unknown. Rehoboth-Ir may possibly have been in the vicinity of the town of Nineveh. However, its name is identical to the Hebrew phrase " rehovot ir ", meaning "streets of the town" or "public square of the town", which ...
Put (biblical figure) Look up phut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phut or Put ( Hebrew: פּוּט Pūṭ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud) is the third son of Ham (one of the sons of Noah ), in the biblical Table of Nations ( Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8 ). The name Put (or Phut) is used in the Bible for Ancient Libya, but a few ...