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Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...
There is only passing mention of the Ziz in the Bible, found in Psalms 50:11 "I know all the birds of the mountains and Zīz śāday [וְזִיז שָׂדַי] is mine" and Psalms 80:13 "The boar from the forest ravages it, and zīz śāday feeds on it", and these are often lost in translation from the Hebrew, [1] being referred to in most ...
Many passages in the Bible point to the qualities of shamir, particularly its hardness. The Septuagint omits the passages of Ezekiel and Zachariah, while the first five verses of Jer. 17, are missing in the Cod. Vaticanus and Alexandrinus, but are found in the Complutensian edition and in the Syriac and Arabic Versions.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium or Palladion (Greek Παλλάδιον (Palladion), Latin Palladium) [1] was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend, the wooden statue of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the ...
Biblical cosmology is the biblical writers' conception of the cosmos as an organised, structured entity, including its origin, order, meaning and destiny. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Bible was formed over many centuries , involving many authors , and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief ; consequently, its cosmology is not always consistent.
A palladium or palladion (plural palladia) is an image or other object of great antiquity on which the safety of a city or nation is said to depend. The word is a generalization from the name of the original Trojan Palladium , a wooden statue ( xoanon ) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy .
Rahab appears in Psalm 89:10, Isaiah 51:9–10, and Job 26:12. Rahab, in these passages, takes the meaning of primeval, chaotic, multi-headed sea-dragon or Leviathan. Thou didst crush Rahab, as one that is slain; Thou didst scatter Thine enemies with the arm of Thy strength.
The Codex Argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. Traditionally ascribed to the Arian bishop Wulfila , it is now established that the Gothic translation was performed by several scholars, possibly ...