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Abomination (from Latin abominare 'to deprecate as an ill omen') is an English term used to translate the Biblical Hebrew terms shiqquts שיקוץ and sheqets שקץ , [1] which are derived from shâqats, or the terms תֹּועֵבָה , tōʻēḇā or to'e'va (noun) or 'ta'ev (verb).
The Millennium Bible (Polish: Biblia Tysiąclecia; full title: Pismo Święte: Starego i Nowego Testamentu, Biblia Tysiąclecia, English: The Sacred Scripture: of Old and New Testament, the Millennium Bible) is the main Polish Bible translation used in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.
Wujek criticized the Leopolita and non-Catholic Bible versions and spoke very favorably of the Polish of the Brest Bible, but asserted that it was full of heresies and of errors in translation. The first copies of Wujek's New Testament appeared in 1593 - containing Wujek's "teachings and warnings" regarding the Protestant versions.
In Polish, siksa or sziksa (pronounced) is a pejorative but humorous word for an immature young girl or teenage girl. According to Polish language dictionary from 1915, it has been defined as "pisspants"; a conflation between the Yiddish term and its similarity to the Polish verb sikać ("to piss"). In today's language however, it is roughly ...
— Leviticus 18:22, Revised Standard Version and English Standard Version [33] You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination. — Leviticus 18:22, New American Bible [ 34 ]
"Abomination of desolation" [a] is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made.
The world of food is full of strange and daring combinations, pushing the limits of what we consider tasty or even edible. But are they culinary disasters or unexpected delights? You be the judge.
In the 2000s, a team of Polish anthropologists and sociologists investigated the currency of the blood libel myth in Sandomierz where a painting depicting the blood libel adorns the Cathedral, and Orthodox faithful in villages near Bialystok, and they discovered that these beliefs persist among some Catholic and Orthodox Christians.