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.

Category: Hebrew Bible people

Category: Hebrew Bible people

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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Category: Hebrew Bible people

Category: Hebrew Bible people

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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.

Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").

However, it should be noted that the Hebrew Bible identifies the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as Mount Moriah, as early as the First Temple period in the book of Second Chronicles chapter 3 s: Bible ( American Standard )/ 2 Chronicles # 3.

Biblical references as well as rabbinic literature support this view: Moses refers to the " God of the spirits of all flesh " (), and the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) also identifies prophets outside the community of Israel.

He follows the Hebrew Book of Esther but shows awareness of some of the additional material found in the Greek version in that he too identifies Ahasuerus as Artaxerxes and provides the text of the king's letter.

Jerome identifies the readers of this gospel as observant Jews, distinct from the culturally assimilated and Hellenized Jews, for whom the Greek Septuagint had been translated from Hebrew.

Biblical scholarship identifies two different traditions in the Hebrew Bible concerning the site of Rachel's burial, respectively a northern version, locating it north of Jerusalem near Ramah, modern Al-Ram, and a southern narrative locating it close to Bethlehem.

Since Strong's Concordance identifies the original words in Hebrew and Greek, Strong's numbers are sometimes misinterpreted by those without adequate training to change the Bible from its accurate meaning simply by taking the words out of cultural context.

The Hebrew word would seem to mean something that exuded, having odorous qualities .” " Shecheleth " identifies with the Syriac " shehelta " which is translated as “ a tear, distillation, or exudation.

Conder writes that " the root of the Hebrew word means to drop or distil, and shecheleth would seem, therefore, to mean some exudation .” Another writer says that the Hebrew shecheleth identifies with the Syriac shehelta which is translated as “ a tear or distillation ” and that “ the context and the etymology seem to require the gum of some aromatic plant.

According to another theory, the word Shapiro is Aramaic ( probably derived from the Hebrew word sapir ( ספיר ), usually translated as " sapphire ", which refers not to the sapphire gemstone but to the lapis lazuli, and is reputed to be the stone which represented the tribe of Issachar on the breastplate of the high priest of Israel and thus identifies the Shapiro family with that tribe ) and appears, for example, in the 11th Century Aramaic-language Jewish religious poem Akdamus a. k. a. Akdamuth ( line 45 ) and in Onkelos's commentary on Genesis 29: 17.

Epiphanius mistakenly identifies it as the " Hebrew " gospel, believing it to be a truncated and modified version of the Gospel of Matthew.

Epiphanius identifies the gospel only as " in the Gospel used by them, called ' according to Matthew '" and " they call it ' the Hebrew '".

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

" For instance, Jesus ' escape from the slaughter by Herod in Bethlehem is compared to Moses ' escape from Pharaoh's designs to kill Hebrew infants.

In fact, an organization named the Hebrew Hay Fever Relief Association, which was organized in the 1920s, existed in Bethlehem for many years.

In rabbinical tradition the duality is resolved by using two different terms in Hebrew to designate these different localities. In the Hebrew version given in Genesis, Rachel and Jacob journey from Shechem to Hebron, a short distance from Ephrath, which is glossed as Bethlehem ( 35: 16-21, 48: 7 ).

His book The Star that Astonished the World claimed the " Star of Bethlehem " was the planet ( or " wandering star " in antiquity ) Jupiter, or Zedeq (" Righteousness ") in Hebrew, leading the wise men to Jesus in Bethlehem on December 25, 2 BCE, coinciding with the Jewish Festival of Lamps or Hanukkah that year.

It is a wheat growing area and hence the name Bethlehem ( from " Beit Lechem ", Hebrew for " house of bread ").

:* From Hebrew: Ethan, Jonathan, Bethlehem, Bethany, leviathan, Bethel