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  2. Behemoth - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...

  3. Leviathan - Wikipedia

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    Leviathan. The Leviathan (/ lɪˈvaɪ.əθən / liv-EYE-ə-thən; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, romanized: Līvyāṯān; Greek: Λεβιάθαν) is a sea serpent demon noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of Job, the Book of Isaiah, and the pseudepigraphical Book of ...

  4. Beelzebub - Wikipedia

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    The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal. In theological sources, predominantly Christian, Beelzebub is another name for Satan. He is known in demonology as one of the seven deadly demons or seven princes of Hell, Beelzebub representing gluttony and envy. The Dictionnaire Infernal describes Beelzebub as a being capable of ...

  5. Bahamut - Wikipedia

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    The name is thought to derive from the biblical Behemoth (Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת; cf. Job 40:15-24), [1] and it was thus rendered in German as Behemot by Ethé. [d] [9] However, the original biblical Behemoth never appeared as a fish. [10] A reshaping of its nature must have occurred in Arab storytelling, some time in the pre-Islamic period ...

  6. Belial - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Belial is a Hebrew word "used to characterize the wicked or worthless". The etymology of the word is often understood as "lacking worth", [5] from two common words: beli- (בְּלִי "without-") and ya'al (יָעַל "to be of value"). Some scholars translate it from Hebrew as "worthless" (Beli yo'il), while others ...

  7. List of modern names for biblical place names - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Names and titles of God in the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    In what in May 2019 Larry W. Hurtado called "the most recent and most detailed study" on the biblical sources, [72] Anthony R. Meyer states in relation to Greek biblical manuscripts: "While ιαω and the Hebrew Tetragrammaton are clearly attested in Greek biblical texts, absent from all Second Temple copies is the title κυριος as a ...

  9. Sacred Name Bible - Wikipedia

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    Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of the God of Israel 's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. [1][2] Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of the Hebrew tetragrammaton (YHWH), in the ...