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Abigail – wife of the wicked Nabal, who became a wife of David after Nabal's death. I Samuel 25 [2] Abihail #1 – wife of Abishur and mother of Ahban and Molid. I Chronicles [3] Abihail #2 – wife of king Rehoboam II Chronicles [4] Abishag – concubine of aged King David. I Kings [5] Abital – one of King David's wives II Samuel; I ...
Asenath is mentioned in three verses of the Bible, all in the Book of Genesis. First appearing in Genesis 41:45, Asenath is said to have been given by the Pharaoh to Joseph as a wife. [11] Here, she is referred to as the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On (Gk. Heliopolis). [12]
Joseph and Asenath is a narrative that dates from between 200 BCE and 200 CE. [1] It concerns the Hebrew patriarch Joseph and his marriage to Asenath, expanding the fleeting mentions of their relationship in the Book of Genesis. The text was translated widely, including into Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Early Modern German, Latin, Middle English ...
Potiphar's wife is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. She was the wife of Potiphar , the captain of Pharaoh's guard in the time of Jacob and his twelve sons . According to the Book of Genesis , she falsely accused Joseph of attempted rape after he rejected her sexual advances, resulting in his imprisonment.
The pseudepigraphical Book of Jubilees provides names for a host of otherwise unnamed biblical characters, including wives for most of the antediluvian patriarchs. The last of these is Noah's wife, to whom it gives the name of Emzara. Other Jewish traditional sources contain many different names for Noah's wife.
Peter stated that Ananias had lied not to men, but to God. Ananias died on the spot and was carried out. Three hours after Ananias' death his wife arrived, unaware of what had happened. Peter asked her the price of the land that she and Ananias had sold, and Sapphira stated the same untruthful price that Ananias had given. She also fell dead.
For Joseph Smith's wife Emma, it was an excruciating ordeal," the essay, part of a collection issued over the past year, said. The church, founded in 1830, banned polygamy in 1890 when the U.S ...
Other popular interpretations of the name are: "abundant" (Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary) or "my gift" (Smith's Bible Dictionary). [6] A possibly more sinister interpretation of Zebedee may be derived from Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon #2061 z'êb, pronounced zeh-abe' , meaning wolf , and #1768 dîy, pronounced dee and meaning that , rendering ...