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A mater lectionis (/ ˌ m eɪ t ər ˌ l ɛ k t i ˈ oʊ n ɪ s / ⓘ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, / ˌ m ɑː t ər-/ MAH-tər -; [1] [2] Latin for 'mother of reading', pl. matres lectionis / ˌ m ɑː t r eɪ s-/ MAH-trayss -; [2] original Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה, romanized: ʾēm qərîʾāh) is any consonant that is used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing of Semitic ...
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.It appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...
Balaam—Hebrew devil of avarice and greed; Baphomet—worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan; Bast—Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat; Beelzebub—(Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab; Behemoth—Hebrew personification of Satan in the form of an elephant; Beherit—Syriac name for Satan
The phrase is a possible survival of Hebrew Polytheism, in which the Elohists refer to the Divine in a plural (ʾĔlōhīm). [4] In the Pentateuch, the Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm form the Divine council, comparable to the "sons of God" in Canaanite religion. [5] In the latter, the "sons" are gods or manifestations of the Divine. [6]
The qlippoth are first mentioned in the Zohar, where they are described as being created by God to function as a nutshell for holiness. [3] The text subsequently relays an esoteric interpretation of the text of Genesis creation narrative in Genesis 1:14, which describes God creating the moon and sun to act as "luminaries" in the sky.
Azrael (/ ˈ æ z r i. ə l,-r eɪ-/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized: ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; [2] Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized: ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the canonical angel of death in Islam [3] and appears in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.
Early authorities considered other Hebrew names mere epithets or descriptions of God, and wrote that they and names in other languages may be written and erased freely. [2] Some moderns advise special care even in these cases, [3] and many Orthodox Jews have adopted the chumras of writing "G-d" instead of "God" in English or saying Ṭēt-Vav ...