Above them were the inDunas, and above the inDunas stood the chief of a particular clan lineage or tribe.

Some cultures regarded the mediator as a sacred figure, worthy of particular respect ; and the role partly overlapped with that of traditional wise men or tribal chief.

Troubetzkoy's chief contributions to linguistics lie in the domain of phonology, in particular in analyses of the phonological systems of individual languages and in the search for general and universal phonological laws.

As it happened, how Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams in particular handled Foster's files and documents immediately after his death became an issue of much investigation itself.

Holbein managed to secure commissions among those courtiers who now jockeyed for power, in particular from Anthony Denny, one of the two chief gentlemen of the bedchamber.

During the Great Depression in particular, he had various jobs, among others as an extra for several movies, usually playing an American Indian chief in Westerns.

To be the chief executive officer of a particular business offered only a limited range of influence ; but to stand at the intersection of the realm of production and the realm of knowledge offered considerably more.

Its chief historical origins as narrative, philosophical or didactic device are to be found in classical Greek and Indian literature, in particular in the ancient art of rhetoric.

One of the chief aims of Gauss ' investigations was to deduce those features of the surface which could be described by a function which would remain unchanged if the surface underwent a transformation in space ( such as bending the surface without stretching it ), or a change in the particular parametric form of the same geometrical surface.

During the Second Opium War, he was one of the chief architects of Qing foreign policy and he repudiated many of the treaties that were concluded in the late 1850s, in particular the territorial concessions in the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aigun.

Teniers, in particular, appears to have been his chief master ; and in his earlier productions we find the sharp, precise, spirited touch, the rather subdued colouring, and the clear, silvery grey tone which distinguish this master ; while in his subjects of a slightly later period – those, such as the Chelsea Pensioners, the Highland Whisky Still and the Rabbit on the Wall, executed in what Burnet styles his second manner, which, however, may be regarded as only the development and maturity of his first – he begins to unite to the qualities of Teniers that greater richness and fulness of effect which are characteristic of Ostade.

One of the chief differences between the 1834 constitution and its predecessor was considerably greater powers being granted to the executive branch generally and the governor in particular than in the earlier document.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

The chief circumstance to which Acacius owed this sudden wave of popularity was the adroitness with which he succeeded in putting himself at the head of the particular movement of which Daniel the Stylite was both the coryphaeus and the true inspirer.

" If the organization in general, and its chief executive in particular, has a strong vision of where its future lies, then there is a good chance that the organization will achieve a strong position in its markets ( and attain that future ).

Brant's honors and gifts caused jealousy among rival chiefs, in particular the Seneca war chief Sayenqueraghta.

Although there are no rules on who can or cannot wear a particular tartan, and it is possible for anyone to create a tartan and name it almost any name they wish, the only person with the authority to make a clan's tartan " official " is the chief.

This led to what she felt was improved relations with her crew mates, in particular chief engineer Trip Tucker, which led to a sexual relationship in Harbinger where she experienced jealousy when Tucker began making romantic overtures toward a MACO on board.

In some schools, in particular the main Utagawa school, the gō of the most senior member was adopted when the master died and the chief pupil assumed his position.

However, Chinese histories since ancient works such as Shiji were also fairly liberal in terming local tribal chiefs as " king " of a particular territory ranging from vast to tiny, using convenient terms of the form "( locality )" + "( king )" such as Changshawang, " King of Changsha " which was briefly recognized as a kingdom but was usually a smaller part of Chu state or just a county of the Sui Dynasty state, or phrases such as Yiwang, " Yi ( Eastern ) Foreign (' barbarian ') king ( s )," while in other cases or by other authors other terms such as, " native chief " might be used for the same office.

Psalm 33: 8 and 34: 5 ) Lastly, in Daniel 10 angels are entrusted with the care of particular districts ; one is called " prince of the kingdom of the Persians ", and Michael is termed " one of the chief princes "; cf.

In particular, James Ebenezer Saunders had been appointed as chief architect on the Pavilion, and on the Grand Hotel and Metropole Hotel on Northumberland Avenue, both on land owned by the Board, and had done little actual work.

On the re-establishment of autocracy, he was arrested and imprisoned for three months by order of the Prince of Canosa, the chief of police and his particular enemy.

but Scottish heraldry does use ' tierced in pale ' ( e. g. Clackmannan county ( now Clackmannanshire ) has Or ; a saltire gules ; a chief tierced in pale vert, argent, vert ...) A particular type of tiercing, resembling a Y in shape ( division lines per bend and bend sinister coming down from the chief, meeting at the fess point, and continuing down per pale ), is called per pall ( also per pairle ).

* The Greek Book of Esther, included in the Septuagint, is a retelling of the events of the Hebrew Book of Esther rather than a translation and records additional traditions, in particular the identification of Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes and details of various letters.

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).

Each version can be identified by particular Semiticisms, and by placement of Hebrew and Aramaic characters within their Greek texts.

The fidelity of the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, and the Torah in particular, is considered paramount, down to the last letter: translations or transcriptions are frowned upon for formal service use, and transcribing is done with painstaking care.

Although Hebrew and Greek words meaning " world " are used in Scripture with the normal variety of senses, many examples of its use in this particular sense can be found in the teachings of Jesus according to the Gospel of John, e. g. 7: 7, 8: 23, 12: 25, 14: 17, 15: 18-19, 17: 6-25, 18: 36.

A reminiscence of Baʿal as a title of a local fertility god ( or referring to a particular god of subterraneous water ) may occur in the Talmudic Hebrew phrases field of the Baʿal and place of the Baʿal and Arabic ba ' l used of land fertilised by subterraneous waters rather than by rain.

* The Shephelah ( Hebrew: lowland )-the coastal region, between the highlands and the Mediterranean sea, which was used for agriculture, in particular for grains.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups: " Biblical " manuscripts ( copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 40 % of the identified scrolls ; Other manuscripts ( known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, additional psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls ; and " Sectarian " manuscripts ( previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism ) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher on Habakkuk ( Hebrew: פשר pesher = " Commentary "), and the Rule of the Blessing, which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls.

Of particular interest to English-speaking students of Hebrew are two related works, which arrived on modern library shelves through parallel paths.

According to the practice of the versions of 1611 and 1885, the RSV translated it as "" or " God " ( depending on whether the Hebrew of the particular verse was read " Adonai " or " Elohim " in Jewish practice ), whereas the ASV had translated it " Jehovah ".

In that particular context, the term " Rûm " is used in preference to " Ionani " or " Yāvāni " which means " European-Greek " or Ionian in Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew.

Nor should the Biblical texts be taken to represent the beliefs of all Jews or Christians at the time they were put into writing: the majority of those making up Hebrew Bible or Old Testament in particular represent the beliefs of only a small segment of the ancient Israelite community, the members of a late Judean religious tradition centered in Jerusalem and devoted to the exclusive worship of Yahweh.

The author wrote in Greek, apparently, as there is no particular evidence of an earlier Hebrew version.

In particular, the Angel of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) was identified with the Logos by Philo, who also said that the Logos was God's instrument in the creation of the universe.

In ancient Israelite religion and culture, Urim and Thummim (, ) is a phrase from the Hebrew Scriptures or Torah associated with the hoshen ( High Priest's breastplate ), divination in general, and cleromancy in particular.

* In Biblical Hebrew, Moloch is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant.

The Hebrew word used in the narrative, that is translated into English as bush, is seneh ( סנה ), which refers in particular to brambles ; seneh is a biblical dis legomenon, only appearing in two places, both of which describe the burning bush.

Prayers were made and dedicated to a particular deity as votive offerings, similar in style to the penitential psalms in the Hebrew scriptures that express remorse and thanksgiving for mercy.

After a short spell at the Cathedral School in Trondheim, he returned to Christiania to study Semitic languages, in particular Akkadian, Arabian and Hebrew, the latter of which he would teach beside his studies.

Often the organization reviving the language chooses a particular dialect, even standardizes one from several variants, and adds new forms, mainly modern vocabulary, through neologisms, extensions of meaning for old words, calques from sibling languages ( Arabic for Modern Hebrew, Welsh and Breton for Cornish ), or plain borrowings from the modern international languages.

In particular, Philo taught that allegorical interpretations of the Hebrew Scriptures provides access to the real meanings of the texts.

* Classical Hebrew ( the language of the Tanakh, in particular of the prophetic books of ca.