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Joanna – One of the women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial. Luke [89] Jochebed – Mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Exodus, Numbers [90] [91] Judith – Hittite wife of Esau. Genesis [92] Judith, the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith [93] Julia – Minor character in the new testament Romans [94]
The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Appearance of Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene (1835) by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. New Testament scholar Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan says Mary Magdalene, or Mary from the town of Magdala, is sometimes "erroneously identified as the sinner who anointed Jesus according to Luke's description in Luke 7:36–50. She is at times also confused with Mary ...
By the time accentuation appears in manuscripts of the New Testament, Junia is unanimously accented as a female name. The critical Greek text of the New Testament produced by Erasmus in 1516, for example, accented the name as feminine, and this continues in every critical Greek text with a single exception (in the 1858 Alford edition) until ...
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with J in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
The name Phoebe means "pure", "radiant", or "bright"; and was the name of a Titan in Greek mythology. [4] Some scholars believe Phoebe was responsible for delivering Paul's epistle to the Roman Christian church. [5] Phoebe is the only woman named as deacon (which means "servant" in Greek) in the Bible. [6]
Mary was the single most popular female name among Jews of the Roman province of Judaea at the time, borne by about one in four women. [5] [6] The most complete research on the frequency of names is provided by scholar Tal Ilan, who in 1989 and 2002 compiled lists of all known names of Jewish women living in Israel/Judaea between 330 BCE and 135 CE and what was then known as Palestine from 135 ...