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Joachim and Anne (according to some apocryphal writings) Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [6] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
Maryam or Mariam is the Aramaic form of the biblical name Miriam (the name of the prophetess Miriam, the sister of Moses ). It is notably the name of Mary the mother of Jesus. [1] [2] [3] The spelling in the Semitic abjads is mrym (Hebrew מרים, Aramaic ܡܪܝܡ, Arabic مريم), which may be vowelized in a number of ways ( Meriem, Miryam ...
Maria, Maryam and other variants, such as Maya. Mary / ˈmɛəˌri / is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek name Μαρία, María or Μαριάμ, Mariam, found in the Septuagint and New Testament.
Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος) [a] is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix or Deipara (approximately "parent (fem.) of God "). Familiar English translations are "Mother of God" or "God-bearer" – but these both have different literal equivalents in Greek ...
New Testament people named Mary. The name Mary (from Ancient Greek: Μαριάμ or Μαρία from the original Hebrew מרים Miryam ), appears 54 times in the New Testament, [note 1] in 49 verses. [4] It 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 New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [1] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam. The lists of names are identical between Abraham and David (whose royal ancestry affirms Jesus' Messianic title ...
Zebedee. Zebedee ( / ˈzɛbɪdiː / ZEB-id-ee; Ancient Greek: Ζεβεδαῖος, romanized : Zebedaîos; [1] Hebrew: זְבַדְיָה, romanized : Zəḇaḏyâ ), according to all four Canonical Gospels, was the father of James and John, two disciples of Jesus. The gospels also suggest that he was the husband of Salome; whereas Mark 15:40 ...
Martha. Martha ( Aramaic: מָרְתָא) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus.