Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

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.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

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The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Bible translation is a treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word aion.

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The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

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Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

The Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

The story of Samson's wedding feast alludes to the Philistine practice of engaging in week-long drinking parties, as the Hebrew word mishkeh, translated as " strong drink " in Judges 14: 10, indicates a " drinking feast.

His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of the major prophets who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel.

The Biblical Book of Judges revolves around a succession of leaders who were known as " Judges " ( Hebrew shoftim שופטים ) but who-aside from their judicial function-were also tribal war leaders, leading in war against threatening enemies.

In the Song of Deborah, the tribe is specially singled out as having " offered their lives to death in the region of Merom ," ( Judges 5: 18 ); and praised because there came " out of Zebulun they that led the army to fight ," as in Hebrew, " they that carry the pen of the writer ," i. e., such as recruiting and inspecting officers ( Judges 5: 14 ).

His story is recorded in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

* Heber the Kenite, mentioned in the Book of Judges 4: 17 of the Hebrew Bible as Jael's husband

The word chawwoth (' tent encampments ') occurs only in this context ( Numbers 32: 41 ; Deuteronomy 3: 14 ; Judges 10: 4 ), and is a legacy word remaining from the early nomadic stage of Hebrew culture.

The name " Lehi " ( ל ֶ ח ִ י ) also means jawbone or cheek in Hebrew, and appears in Judges 15: 15-19.

Two examples of Nazirites in the Hebrew Bible are Samson ( Judges 13: 5 ), and Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1: 11 ).

Manoah is a character appearing in Judges 13: 1-23 and 14: 2-4 of the Hebrew Bible.

Delilah ( דלילה – Dlila, Standard Hebrew meaning " who weakened or uprooted or impoverished " from the root dal meaning " weak or poor ") appears only in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the " woman in the valley of Sorek " whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall.

The Shfela is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Deuteronomy 1: 7 ( the vale ); Joshua 9: 1 ( the valleys ); 10: 40 ( the vale ); 11: 2, 16 ( the valley ); 12: 8 ; 15: 33 ; Judges 1: 9 ; 1 Kings 10: 27 ; Jeremiah 17: 26 ; 32: 44 ; 33: 13 ; Obadiah 1: 19 ; Zechariah 7: 7 ; 1 Chronicles 27: 28 ; 2 Chronicles 1: 15 ; 9: 27 ; 26: 10 ; 28: 18.

In the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, Abimelech (; א ֲ ב ִ ימ ָ ל ֶ ך ְ) was a son of the great judge Gideon (); thus his name א ֲ ב ִ ימ ֶ ל ֶ ך ְ / א ֲ ב ִ ימ ָ ל ֶ ך ְ can best be interpreted " my father, the king ".

Abdon ( Hebrew ע ַ ב ְ ד ּ ו ֹ ן, " servile " or " service "), was the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, and was the tenth Judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges ( Judges 12: 13-15 ).