Shebna may or may not have been " Shebna the scribe ", who was sent by the king to confer with the Assyrian ambassador recorded in the ( 2 Kings 18: 18, 26, 37 ; 19: 2 ; Isa.

Only Hillel's brother Shebna is mentioned ; he was a merchant, whereas Hillel devoted himself to studying the Torah whilst also working as a woodcutter ( Hertz 1936 ).

It is possible that Shebna party from Rabbinic accounts was part of the Asmach.

Among his discoveries there was the rock-cut tomb of the Biblical Shebna.

Although only three partial inscriptions survive, the paleography makes the dating certain and they suffice for most archaeologists to identify one tomb with the Biblical Shebna, steward and treasurer of King Hezekiah.

Siloam Inscription, lintel inscription, found over the doorway of a tomb, has been ascribed to his comptroller Shebna.

Rabbinic accounts of the siege assert that only about 110, 000 Judeans remained in Jerusalem under King Hezekiah's command, whereas about 130, 000 Judeans led by Shebna had joined Sennacherib's campaign against Tirhakah, king of Kush.

Shebna also appears to have been the leader of the party who favored an alliance with Egypt against Assyria.

Many of the theophorous endings are contracted into-a ,-i, or-ai, as in Shebna, Hosa, Talti, and Shemai.

Apollo was born on the seventh day () of the month Thargelion — according to Delian tradition — or of the month Bysios — according to Delphian tradition.

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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.

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The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

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The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

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In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena () was the mother of Heracles.

Alexander () was tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC.

In On Fate Alexander denied three things-necessity (), the foreknowledge of fated events that was part of the Stoic identification of God and Nature, and determinism in the sense of a sequence of causes that was laid down beforehand () or predetermined by antecedents ().

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Some traditions related that at the time when Aeacus was born, Aegina was not yet inhabited, and that Zeus changed the ants () of the island into men ( Myrmidons ) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth.

12. 5 % () of British Columbia is currently considered protected under one of the 14 different designations that includes over 800 distinct areas.

The race follows a straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly ¼ mile () for most cars, with a shorter for some

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For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

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A frigate () is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.

* English cover and Hebrew kaphar () ( appease, cover over )

The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers ( 0 – 19 years old ) make up 18. 2 % of the population, while adults ( 20 – 64 years old ) make up 65. 8 % and seniors ( over 64 years old ) make up 16 %.

The Gopher protocol () is a TCP / IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

Most of the Taborites now went over to the party of the Utraquists ; the rest joined the " Brothers of the Law of Christ " () ( see Unity of the Brethren ; also Bohemian Brethren and Moravian Church ).

Mark Nelson, frustrated over many cranks trying to claim having invented a magic compression algorithm appearing in comp. compression, has constructed a 415, 241 byte binary file () of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $ 100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute (" decompress ") it without error.

Nätverket Forn Sed formed in 2004, and has a network consisting of local groups () from all over Sweden.

The verb " pasàch " () is first mentioned in the Torah account of the Exodus from Egypt (), and there is some debate about its exact meaning: the commonly held assumption that it means " He passed over ", in reference to God " passing over " the houses of the Hebrews during the final of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, stems from the translation provided in the Septuagint ( παρελευσεται in, and εσκεπασεν in ).

) () Both meanings become apparent in Exodus 12: 23 when parsed as: the Lord will pass ( hover, guard ) over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer ( destroying angel is commanded to pass by the children of Israel ) to come in unto your houses to smite.

One had to be careful not to break any bones from the offering, () and none of the meat could be left over by morning ().

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* The cathedral () was built by bishop Zosimo in the 7th century over the great Temple of Athena ( 5th century BC ), on Ortygia island.

So, just like one can find the value of an Integral ( f = dF ) over a 1-dimensional manifolds () by considering the anti-derivative ( F ) at the 0-dimensional boundaries (), one can generalize the fundamental theorem of calculus, with a few additional caveats, to deal with the value of integrals ( dω ) over n-dimensional manifolds ( Ω ) by considering the anti-derivative ( ω ) at the ( n-1 )- dimensional boundaries ( dΩ ) of the manifold.

() People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world.

() God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each another, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city.

A chairman () presided over the court, and lay judges () passed judgment ..