Abijah McCall was a co-inventor of the Fresno Scraper, a horse-drawn ( and later, tractor-drawn ) earth-moving machine upon which modern road-and canal-building equipment is based.

A more complete biography than that of the Hebrew Bible of Abijah was written by Iddo the Seer.

# Abijah ( king ) of the Kingdom of Judah, also known as Abijam ( אבים ' aḄiYaM " My Father is Yam "), who was son of Rehoboam and succeeded him on the throne of Judah.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

Since Zachariah is described as a priest of the course of Abijah and his wife, Elizabeth, as one of the daughters of Aaron, this would make John a descendant of Aaron on both his father's and mother's side.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

Brooks is named for James Abijah Brooks, a Texas Ranger and legislator.

The discovery is still disputed between Jim White and Abijah Long.

" The story is that Abijah Smith heard through some man, who had been traveling in Pennsylvania, and who passing through Derby on his way home stopped at Smith's blacksmith shop to have his horse shod, about black stone in Pennsylvania that would burn.

The name is derived from early land owner Abijah Hammond.

: Abijah – Yahweh is my father

In 2 chr 13: 5 King Abijah referred to God's covenant promise to David that he will not lack a man to seat on Israel's throne as a Salt covenant-that is a covenant that can never be broken.

Biblical sources credit Abijah with having a force of 400, 000 and Jeroboam having 800, 000.

The Biblical sources mention that Abijah addressed the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again, but his plea fell on deaf ears.

In Biblical times this occurs with regard to the names Abigail, Abijah, Athaliah, Chushan, Ephah, Micha, Nahash, Shelomith, Zibiah ; in Talmudic times, with regard to Ibu, Johanan, Nehorai, Pasi, Shalom ; the only later instances that may be cited are Jeroham, Mazal-Ṭob, Neḥamah, Menuḥah, Simḥah, Tamar, Bongodas, and Bien-li-Viengue.

* Alternate spelling of Abijah, a Biblical name

In the Old Testament the name Abijah was borne by several characters:

: Abiah – Yahweh is my father

He was the son of Samuel Hanson Cox and Abiah Hyde Cleveland, but changed the spelling of the family name.

The State is bordered on the east by Cross River State, on the west by Rivers State and Abia State, and on the South by the Atlantic Ocean and the southern-most tip of Cross River State.

Another day another island we is greater than that of large mountains, and believing there for his greatness and its monstrosity that could not fail to have rivers and fruits, fuiemos to it, because the first baxaria ten or twelve leagues, and in this quen water vessel bebiose Abia and spent three days in taking the island, with calm, in the ombres quales there as we suffered many work horses.

Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó ( born 1961 ) is a former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea having served from June 14, 2004 to August 14, 2006.

Abia State is a state in southeastern Nigeria.

The name " Abia " is an abbreviation of four of the state's densely populated regions Aba, Bende, Isuikwuato, and Afikpo.

The Efik language is widely spoken in Cross River State, and as far as Arochukwu in neighboring Abia state.

Aba is a city and a big trading center in Abia State, southern Nigeria, located on the Aba River.

Umuahia ( pronounced ) is the capital of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria.

Arochukwu, sometimes referred to as Arochuku, or Aro-Okigbo, ( pronounced Aruchukwu ) is the third largest city in Abia State ( after Aba and Umuahia ) in southeastern Nigeria and homeland of the Igbo subgroup, Aro people.

It is also in the food belt of Abia state where most of the staple foods are produced.

It is one of the six new states in Nigeria created in 1996 by the Abacha government, Ebonyi was created from the old Abakaliki division of Enugu State and old Afikpo division of Abia State.

* Abia Warriors F. C., a Nigerian football ( soccer ) club which played under the name Orji Uzor Kalu F. C.

* Abia, Messenia, ancient name of Avia, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

The Septuagint version appears to agree more with the Qumran fragments rather than the Hebrew / Aramaic Masoretic text reflected in modern translations.

The modern Hebrew text ( called the Masoretic text ) differs considerably from the Greek, and scholars are still working at finding the best solutions to the many problems this presents.

The Hebrew text of Samuel is widely recognised to be heavily corrupted with errors ( meaning that scribes, over the centuries, have introduced many mistakes while copying the original version ), while in addition the Greek and Hebrew versions differ considerably ; modern scholars are still working at finding the best solutions to the many problems this presents.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Since in the modern Hebrew calendar Nisan 15 can never fall on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, the seder of Nisan 15 never falls on the night of Maundy Thursday.

Modern Hebrew Bibles call the two books Ezra and Nehemiah, as do other modern Bible translations.

Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that Erich Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers ; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and Hebrew fables such as the " king of trees " in Book of Judges 9: 8-15 and " the thistle and the cedar tree " in II Kings 14: 9.

In modern Hebrew golem is used to mean " dumb " or " helpless ".

The Hebrew calendar year is longer by about 6 minutes and 25 +< sup > 25 </ sup >/< sub > 57 </ sub > seconds than the present-day mean solar year, so that every 224 years, the Hebrew calendar will fall a full day behind the modern solar year, and about every 231 years it will fall a full day behind the Gregorian calendar year.

Pico de la Mirandola ( d. 1494 ) was the first to collect Hebrew manuscripts, and Reuchlin was the first to write a modern grammar of the Hebrew language ( 1506 ).

* The tense – aspect that is formed by prefixes could denote either the present ( especially frequentative ) or the future, as well as frequentative past in Biblical Hebrew ( some scholars argue that it simply denoted imperfective aspect ), while in modern Hebrew it is always future.

In contrast to the varied development of these pronunciations is the relatively rapid development of modern Israeli Hebrew.

Below are the consonants of modern General Israeli Hebrew.

Some historically distinctive Hebrew phonemes have merged in modern Hebrew, such as historically distinctive ( now all pronounced ), written respectively by the letters Tav ( ת ּ), ( ת ) and ( ט ).