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Pronunciation: Bayawt Shamawsh Meaning: House of Sun Caesar, Augustus (son of Gaius Octavius & Atia) Person 63 BC: AD 14: Latin: AVGVSTVS CAESAR (Augustus Caesar) Pronunciation: Ow-goos-toos Kie-sar Canaan: Nation Phoenician: 饜饜饜饜 KN士N Paleo-Hebrew: 饜饜饜饜 Pronunciation: K-naw-un Caiaphas, Joseph ben: Person 14 BC: AD 46
The English term Canaan (pronounced / 藞 k e瑟 n 蓹n / since c. AD 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew 讻谞注谉 (kn士n), via Greek Χανα维ν Khanaan and Latin Canaan. It appears as KUR ki-na-ah-na in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and kn士n is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium.
Besides the particulars already mentioned, it is said Cainan was the first after the flood who invented astronomy, and that his sons made a god of him, and worshiped his image after his death. The founding of the city of Harran in Mesopotamia is also attributed to him; which, it is pretended, is so called from a son he had of that name."
The Hebrew form K蓹m艒š was itself later Romanised as Chemosh (vocalized in English as: / 藞 k i藧 m 蓲 蕛 /) in translations of the Bible, while the accurate pronunciation of the name of the god, reflecting the Moabite pronunciation Kam艒š, is more accurately recorded in the Septuagint as Χαμως (Kham艒s) and the Vulgate as Chamos. [2]
'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped in Shechem, in ancient Canaan, according to the Bible. The term for "covenant" (Hebrew: 讘专讬转, romanized: b蓹r墨t) appears also in Ugaritic texts (second millennium BCE) as brt (饜巵饜帡饜帤), in connection with Ba士al, and perhaps as Beruth in Sanchuniathon's work. [1]
Anak (/ 藞 e瑟 n æ k /; Hebrew: 注植谞指拽 , [1] homophone to a word for "giant, long neck, necklace"; Hebrew pronunciation: [蕰a藞n蓴藧q]) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible.His descendants are mentioned in narratives concerning the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, 讬讛讜讛, which is usually transliterated as YHWH. The Hebrew script is an abjad, and thus vowels are often omitted in writing. YHWH is usually expanded to Yahweh in English. [11] Modern Rabbinical Jewish culture judges it forbidden to pronounce this name.
God instructed the Israelites to destroy these seven nations upon entering Canaan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The meaning and implications of these verses in historical contexts was discussed in later commentary . The seven nations are all descendants of Canaan , son of Ham and grandson of Noah , from whom they derive their collective name Canaanites .