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  2. Ho Chi Minh - Wikipedia

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    Hồ Chí Minh [a] [b] (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung; [c] [d] [e] [4] [5] 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), [f] colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) [g] [8] and by other aliases [h] and sobriquets, [i] was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 ...

  3. Methuselah - Wikipedia

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    Methuselah (US: / m ə ˈ θ uː z ˌ l ɑː /; Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח ‎ Məṯūšélaḥ, in pausa מְתוּשָׁלַח ‎ Məṯūšālaḥ, "His death shall send" or "Man of the Javelin" or "Death of Sword"; [1] Greek: Μαθουσάλας Mathousalas) [2] was a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

  4. Enos (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in AM 235. According to the Septuagint, it was in AM 435. Enos was the father of Kenan, who was born when Enos was 90 years old [5] (or 190 years, according to the Septuagint). According to the Bible, Enos died at the age of 905, when Noah was aged 84 (as per Masoretic ...

  5. Lazarus of Bethany - Wikipedia

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    In the context of the seven signs in the Gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus at Bethany – today the town of Al-Eizariya in the West Bank, which translates to "the place of Lazarus" – is the climactic narrative: exemplifying the power of Jesus "over the last and most irresistible enemy of humanity: death. For this reason, it is given a ...

  6. Zechariah, father of John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryā, "remember Yah"; Greek: Ζαχαρίας; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in the Douay–Rheims Bible; Zakariyya (Arabic: زكريا, romanized: Zakariyyā) in Islamic tradition) is a Jewish figure in the New Testament and the Quran, [3] and venerated in Christianity and Islam. [4]

  7. Abner - Wikipedia

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    Abner (in green) taking Michal away from Paltiel (Morgan Bible, 1240s). In the Hebrew Bible, Abner (Hebrew: אַבְנֵר ʾAḇnēr) was the cousin of King Saul and the commander-in-chief of his army. [1] His name also appears as אבינר בן נר ‎ "Abiner son of Ner", where the longer form Abiner means "my father is Ner". [2]

  8. Terah - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the singular word ab does not always mean progenitor, and can be used for an adopter, uncle, step-father, or caretaker, unlike the word wālid (Arabic: وَالِـد, progenitor). Thus, Al-Islam.org denies that Abraham's biological father was 'Azar', and instead agreed with Ibn Kathir that he was the biblical figure 'Terah', [ 33 ...

  9. Reuben (son of Jacob) - Wikipedia

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    The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to various sources: one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; [5] the first explanation given by the Bible is that the name refers to Yahweh having witnessed Leah's misery, concerning her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben ...