Benaiah, as ordered by King Solomon, kills Joab in the House of Yahweh.

On the brink of death, David told Solomon to have Joab killed citing Joab's past betrayals and the blood that he was guilty of, and for this Solomon ordered his death by the hand of Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2: 29-34 ), who then replaced him as commander of the army.

It is interesting to note that Joab fled to the Tent of the Tabernacle and told Benaiah that he will die there.

Benaiah remained loyal to King David during the revolt of King David's son Adonijah.

Born in 1913 at Got Regea in Siaya, Nyanza Province, the late Benaiah Appolo Ohanga was the son of the late Ongewe Okelo

Asmodeus, king of demons, was one day, according to the classical Rabbis, captured by Benaiah using the ring, and was forced to remain in Solomon's service.

* Benaiah L. Whitman 1883, President of Colby College and George Washington University

As punishment for the revolt, Benaiah, under the orders of King Solomon, executed Adonijah.

Solomon then sends his trusted aide Benaiah on a quest to retrieve it.

Abijah ( אביה ' aḆiYaH ) or Abiah or Abia, modern Hebrew Aviya, is a Biblical unisex name that means " my Father is Yahweh ".

The English name Joshua is a rendering of the Hebrew language " Yehoshua ", meaning " Yahweh is salvation ".

John the Evangelist ( יוחנן Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān meaning " Yahweh is gracious ", Greek: Εὐαγγελιστής Ἰωάννης ) ( c. AD 1 – c. 100 ) is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John.

Obadiah ( pronounced, ʿObhadyah or עבדיהו ` oḆaDYaHOo, or in Modern Hebrew Ovadyah ) is a Biblical theophorical name, meaning " servant of Yahweh " or " worshipper of Yahweh.

The Hebrew Bible credits Solomon as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, and portrays him as great in wisdom, wealth, and power, but ultimately as a king whose sin, including idolatry and turning away from Yahweh, leads to the kingdom being torn in two during the reign of his son Rehoboam.

In a Rabbinical account ( e. g. Targum Sheni ), Solomon was accustomed to ordering the living creatures of the world to dance before him ( Rabbinical accounts say that Solomon had been given control over all living things by Yahweh ), but one day upon discovering that the mountain-cock or hoopoe ( Hebrew name: shade ) was absent, he summoned it to him, and the bird told him that it had been searching for somewhere new.

Yahweh ( or ; ), often rendered Jehovah or the ( in small capitals ), is the god of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.

Yahweh is a modern scholarly vocalization of the name as it appears in Hebrew, where it is written without vowels as ( YHWH ).

Amongst Christians, Yasu — an Arabic transliteration of the name of the Christian Jesus — Yahweh, or Shaddai, translated, that is, " Almighty ", are common, with some other names and titles generally borrowed as transliterations from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

Balak meets with Balaam at Kirjat Huzoth, and they go to the high places of Baal ( Biblical Hebrew: בעל ), and offer sacrifices on seven altars, leading to Balaam being given a prophecy by Yahweh, which he speaks to Balak.

Baʿal in the Hebrew text did not light his followers ' sacrifice, but Yahweh sent heavenly fire to burn Elijah's sacrifice to ashes, even after it had been soaked with water.

Certainly some of the Ugaritic texts and Sanchuniathon report hostility between El and Hadad, perhaps representing a cultic and religious differences reflected in Hebrew tradition also, in which Yahweh in the Tanach is firmly identified with El and might be expected to be somewhat hostile to Baʿal / Hadad and the deities of his circle.

The name Joab () is derived from Yahweh (), the name of the God of Israel, and the Hebrew word ' av ' (), meaning ' father '.

* Hebrew: another meaning of " four-letter word " ( in Greek, tetragrammaton ) is the Hebrew name of the Abrahamic God, that is, י-ה-ו-ה ( commonly transliterated as " YHWH ", " Yahweh ", and " Jehovah "), which many practicing Jews do not speak aloud and protect when written ( see Geniza ).

The Hebrew Bible states that the Hebrews were strongly opposed to sacrificing first-born children as a molk to Yahweh himself.

The Book of Tobit ( Book of Tobias in the Vulgate ; from the Greek: τωβιθ, and Hebrew: טובי Tobi " my good ", also called the Book of Tobias from the Hebrew טוביה Tobiah " Yahweh is my good ") is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent ( 1546 ).

Joseph (, Yosef ; " May Yahweh add ";, ) is an important person in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

The philosophical term Logos ( word, reason ) parallels the Hebrew phrase " word of God " (" dabar Yahweh "), which the Hebrew Bible portrays as bearing God's message, especially to his prophets.

The " holy spirit " ( also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ) and Jewish writings to refer to the Spirit of Yahweh.

The word Elohim occurs more than 2500 times in the Hebrew Bible, with meanings ranging from " god " in a general sense ( as in Exodus 12: 12, where it describes " the gods of Egypt "), to a specific god ( e. g., 1 Kings 11: 33, where it describes Chemosh " the god of Moab ", or the frequent references to Yahweh as the " elohim " of Israel ), to demons, seraphim, and other supernatural beings, to the spirits of the dead brought up at the behest of King Saul in 1 Samuel 28: 13, and even to kings and prophets ( e. g., Exodus 4: 16 ).

The music builds to an amazing climax, crowned with the entrance of a boy's choir singing the phrase " Magnified and sanctified be His great name, Amen " in Hebrew.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

Liberal Christian scholars, like conservative Christian scholars, accept earlier versions of the texts that make up the Bible in Hebrew or Greek.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai (" life "), which is composed of two letters which ( using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table shown below ) add up to 18.

He perfected his Greek and he took up the study of Hebrew.

When Herzl Rosenblum, a journalist, was called up to sign, Ben-Gurion instructed him to sign under the name Herzl Vardi, his pen name, as he wanted more Hebrew names on the document.

The Hebrew Bible forbids a man from marrying his brother's widow with the exception that, if his brother died childless, the man is instead required to marry his brother's widow so as to " raise up seed to him " ( taken from Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 6 ).

This indicated that he had a compound name made up of the actions which he performed ; for the word " Sata " in the Hebrew and Syrian tongue means " apostate ", while " nas " is the word which means in translation " serpent ", thus, from both parts is formed the one word " Sata-nas ".

This work has opened up many Rabbinic documents to scholars of other fields unfamiliar with Hebrew and Aramaic.

In a modern translation from the original Hebrew, the passage in which the phrase " Lucifer " or " morning star " occurs begins with the statement: " On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labour forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end!

The first mention in an Egyptian source of the Philistines in conjunction with three of the five cities that are said in the Hebrew Bible to have made up their pentapolis comes in the Onomasticon of Amenope.

After many years of effort by a great number of tannaim, the oral tradition was written down around 200 CE by Rabbi Judah haNasi who took up the compilation of a nominally written version of the Oral Law, the Mishnah ( Hebrew: משנה ).

An error of a single letter, ornamentation, or symbol of the 304, 805 stylized letters which make up the Hebrew Torah text renders a Torah scroll unfit for use, hence a special skill is required and a scroll takes considerable time to write and check.

Plath typed up Hughes ' manuscript for his collection Hawk In The Rain which went on to win a poetry competition run by the Poetry centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York.

* Hebrew: " גנן גידל דגן בגן, דגן גדול גדל בגן " ( ganan gidel dagan bagan, dagan gadol gadal bagan-A gardener grew cereals in the garden, big cereals grew up in the garden.

An example is the Andersen-Forbes database of the Hebrew Bible, developed since the 1970s, in which every clause is parsed using graphs representing up to seven levels of syntax, and every segment tagged with seven fields of information.

In the Hebrew Torah, patience is referred to in several proverbs, such as " The patient man shows much good sense, but the quick-tempered man displays folly at its height " ( Proverbs 14: 29, NAB ); " An ill-tempered man stirs up strife, but a patient man allays discord.

( Calling someone up to say the Torah blessings during a service is called an Aliyah, from the Hebrew: ע ֲ ל ִ י ָּ ה, from the verb la ' alot, לעלות, meaning, " to rise, to ascend ; to go up ").

:: At first the name Baʿal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baʿal was given up in Judaism as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubbaʿal were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means " shame ".

One Hebrew script was only used for religious literature and by a small community of Samaritans up until the sixth century BC.

As of 2000, English was spoken as a first language by 78. 55 % of the population, while Spanish was spoken by 15. 08 %, and Hebrew speakers made up 1. 25 % of all residents.