The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).

Erech ( Hebrew name ארך, meaning ' to extract ', ' draw out ', or ' long ') according to the Book of Genesis, was an ancient city in the land of Shinar, the second city built by king Nimrod.

And this occurs now, at the refrain of Jacoby's song -- at the point, in fact, of the name `` Lizzy '' -- ; ;

The name occurs in the Refutation of all Heresies ( vii.

The fact that the name occurs on these gems in connection with representations of figures with the head of a cock, a lion, or an ass, and the tail of a serpent was formerly taken in the light of what Irenaeus says about the followers of Basilides:

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles.

The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

The same number however occurs in many other mathematical contexts, where it is denoted by ( often read as " n choose k "); notably it occurs as coefficient in the binomial formula, hence its name binomial coefficient.

" Upham's book runs to almost 1, 000 pages and a quick search of the name Mather ( referring to either father, son, or ancestors ) shows that it occurs only 96 times ; Poole's critique, in book form, runs less than 70 pages but the name " Mather " occurs many times that.

The name Cernunnos occurs only on the " Pillar of the Boatmen " ( Pilier des nautes ), now displayed in the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris.

It is in the system of Valentinus that the name Dēmiourgos is used, which occurs nowhere in Irenaeus except in connection with the Valentinian system ; we may reasonably conclude that it was Valentinus who adopted from Platonism the use of this word.

It occurs even more in Spanish, e. g., the deformation of names for cannabis: mota ( literally, " something that moves " on the black market ), grifa ( literally, " something coarse to the touch "), marijuana ( a female personal name, María Juana ), cáñamo ( the original Spanish name for the plant, derived from the Latin genus name Cannabis ).

It is not certain what exact changes will happen to ENSO in the future: Different models make different predictions .< ref name =" Merryfield2006 "> It may be that the observed phenomenon of more frequent and stronger El Niño events occurs only in the initial phase of the global warming, and then ( e. g., after the lower layers of the ocean get warmer as well ), El Niño will become weaker than it was.

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

The first record of the name Israel ( as ) occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

The name Isaac occurs 32 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The first record of the name Israel occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

The deity name " Oannes " first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal ( more than a century after the time of Jonah ) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B. C.

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

At least another eight vessels have carried the name since then.

The eight day rededication of the temple is described in 1 Maccabees 4: 36 et seq, though the name of the festival and the miracle of the lights do not appear here.

Within the Chianti DOCG there are eight defined sub-zones that are permitted to affix their name to the wine label.

Later works dealt with fears of loss of his name and reputation. In 1576 eight poems by Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises ; all poems in the collection were meant to be sung.

The standard 7-inch mix ( by the name of " Cowboys & Indians ") featured a pop / radio-oriented production that dispensed with a section of the song's middle eight altogether.

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

* The Audubon Nature Institute, a family of museums, parks and other organizations in New Orleans, eight of which bear the Audubon name.

In the Democratic convention, though he had a majority of the votes, he did not have the two-thirds which the convention required, and after eight ballots his name was withdrawn.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name ( from the Latin " octo " meaning " eight ") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.

Accordingly, several carried the prefix Sir before their name ; of the first eight premiers of Canada, only Alexander Mackenzie refused the honour of a knighthood from Queen Victoria.

Migliorati was unanimously chosen – by eight cardinals – on 17 October 1404 and took the name of Innocent VII.

In the United States, quinine sulfate is commercially available in 324-mg tablets under the brand name Qualaquin ; the adult dose is two tablets every eight hours.

Following a series of post-Vatican II reforms, his feast day was changed and his name was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1970 for celebration on 22 June jointly with St John Fisher, the only remaining bishop ( owing to the coincident natural deaths of eight aged bishops ) who, during the English Reformation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope.

Another English case in 2009, R v Wilkins ( 2010 ), resulted in a man who filmed his intercourse with five of his lovers for his own private viewing, being sentenced to imprisonment for eight months and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register, where his name would remain for ten years.

It is the smallest number with eight letters in its name spelled out in English.

That a man who did so much for industrial development did not receive higher recognition from his own government was a source of deep regret to English engineers, who alluded to the fact that in the United States, where the Bessemer process found much use, eight cities or towns bore his name.

Emperor Go-Daigo's eight era name changes are mirrored in number only in the reign of Emperor Go-Hanazono, who also reigned through eight era name changes.