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High Priest of Israel wearing the sacred vestments. The ephod is depicted here in yellow. An ephod (Hebrew: אֵפוֹד, romanized: ʾēp̄ōḏ; / ˈ ɛ f ɒ d / or / ˈ iː f ɒ d /) was a type of apron that, according to the Hebrew Bible, was worn by the High Priest of Israel, an artifact and an object to be revered in ancient Israelite culture, and was closely connected with oracular ...
The earliest priest mentioned in the Bible, Melchizedek, was a priest of the Most High and a contemporary of Abram. [1] The first priest mentioned of another god is Potipherah priest of On, whose daughter Asenath married Joseph in Egypt. The third priest to be mentioned is Jethro, priest of Midian, and Moses' father in law. [2]
Zechariah [a] was a Jewish priest mentioned in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. [3] In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36).
The first reference to Urim and Thummim in the Bible is the description in the Book of Exodus concerning the high priest's vestments; [15] the chronologically earliest passage mentioning them, according to textual scholars, is in the Book of Hosea, [16] where it is implied, by reference to the Ephod, that the Urim and Thummim were fundamental ...
Artist's conception of Jewish high priest wearing a hoshen in ancient Judah. According to the Biblical description, the twelve jewels in the breastplate were each to be made from specific minerals, none identical to another, and each of them representative of a specific tribe, whose name was to be inscribed on the stone.
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the ... In the Hebrew Bible, ... Description of the problem of Roman Catholic and Old Catholic reunion with ...
Phinehas slaying Zimri and Cozbi the Midianite by Jeremias van Winghe. According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas (also spelled Phineas, / ˈ f ɪ n i ə s /; Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Modern: Pīnḥas, Tiberian: Pīnəḥās, Ancient Greek: Φινεες [1] Phinees, Latin: Phinees) [2] was a priest during the Israelites' Exodus journey.
Joseph and Asenath together on this image in Berlin.Man depicted close to them may be Potiphera. According to the Hebrew Bible, Potiphera (/ p ɒ ˈ t ɪ f ər ə /, Hebrew: פּוֹטִי פֶרַע, romanized: Poṭi-p̄eraʿ ) was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, [1] mentioned in the Genesis 41:45 and 41:50.