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.

One of the most frequent speculations is that the entire book ( excepting 9: 4-20 ) was originally written in Aramaic, with portions translated into Hebrew, possibly to increase acceptance-many Aramaisms in the Hebrew text find proposed explanation by the hypothesis of an inexact initial translation into Hebrew.

It was possibly influenced by the Aramaic and Arabic languages, and in some cases by Sephardi Hebrew, although some linguists maintain that it is the direct heir of Biblical Hebrew and thus represents the true dialect of Hebrew.

The name is possibly related to the Akkadian khabbaququ, the name of a fragrant plant, or the Hebrew root, meaning " embrace ".

The baptised name was possibly chosen on purpose, as it means not only " crown " as mentioned, but also " norm, standard " in Hebrew.

It occurs in a part of the text where the Hebrew seems discongruent and possibly garbled ().

The name " Tyropoiōn " possibly arose as an ancient mistranslation from Hebrew to the Greek of Josephus's book ; Semitic languages use the same root for " outer " and " congeal ".

The Hebrew name possibly refers to the physical layout of the original two chambers.

It was known as Ḫarrānu in the Assyrian period ; possibly Ḫaran () in the Hebrew Bible ; or Carrhae under the Roman Empire ; Hellenopolis ( ' Greek city ') in the Early Christian period ; and Ḥarrān ( حر ّ ان ) in the Islamic period.

Moloch has been traditionally interpreted as the name of a god, possibly a god titled the king, but purposely mispronounced as Mole < u > k </ u > instead of Mele < u > k </ u > using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth " shame ".

There is no official record of it in Pharisaic or Rabbinic sources, and it was among several books that were left out of the canon established by the Sanhedrin ( possibly at the so-called Council of Jamnia, c 80 AD, though this theory has been largely discredited, see Development of the Hebrew Bible canon for details ).

" Nod " ( נוד ) is the Hebrew root of the verb " to wander " ( לנדוד ) and is possibly an etymological etiology intended to explain the nomadic lifestyle of Cain and his putative descendants, the Kenites.

First come those prophets dated to the early Assyrian period: Hosea, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah ; Joel is undated, but it was possibly placed before Amos because parts of a verse near the end of Joel ( 3. 16 in Hebrew ) and one near the beginning of Amos ( 1. 2 ) are identical.

The term is the same as the normal English word " Sabbath " ( itself a transliteration of Hebrew " Shabbat ", the seventh day, on which the Creator rested after creation of the world ), referring to the witches ' equivalent to the Christian day of rest ; a more common term was " synagogue " or " synagogue of Satan ", possibly reflecting anti-Jewish sentiment, although the acts attributed to witches bear little resemblance to the Sabbath in Christianity or Jewish Shabbat customs.

Demonological directories give an etymology from a supposed Latin word ' Chamos ', ' Chamus ', said to be a name given to Baal Peor, and possibly corrupted from Hebrew ' Chium ', an epithet given to several Assyrian and Babylonian gods.

In the fourth century, St. Jerome's Latin Bible, possibly reflecting this Christian comparison between the peace brought by baptism and the ending of the Flood, rendered the Hebrew Bible's " olive leaf " in Noah as " olive branch " ( ramum olivae ).

A number of scholars have proposed that the tribe of Asher actually originated as the Weshesh group of Sea Peoples-the name Weshesh ( or rather Uashesh / Ueshesh-for easy pronunciation, this is usually transcribed into English as Weshesh ) can be decomposed as men of Uash in Hebrew, and hence possibly a corruption of Asher.

The term ' camel ' is derived via Latin and Greek from Hebrew or Phoenician gāmāl, possibly from a verb root meaning ' to bear / carry ' ( related to Arabic jamala ).

The Biblical Hebrew term qěnēh bośem ( ק ְ נ ֵ ה ב ֹּ ש ֶׂ ם ), possibly derived from Sumerian kanubi, literally " reed of balm ", probably refers to cannabis according to some etymologists, but is more commonly thought to be lemon grass, calamus, or even sweet cane, due to widespread translation issues.

The object made by Gideon is plainly described as having been worshipped, and therefore the idol of some deity ( possibly of Yahweh ), while the object made by Micah is closely associated with a Teraphim, and the Ephod and Teraphim are described interchangeably with the Hebrew terms pesel and massekah, meaning graven image, and molten image, respectively.

Bêl Šadê could have been the fertility-god ' Ba ' al ', possibly adopted by the Canaanites, a rival and enemy of the Hebrew God YHWH, and famously combatted by the Hebrew prophet Elijah.