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The reference to Mount Gerizim derives from the biblical story of Moses ordering Joshua to take the Twelve Tribes of Israel, ( the number of which did not include the priestly tribe of Levi ) to the mountains by Nablus and place half of the tribes, six in number, on the top of Mount Gerizim, the Mount of the Blessing, and the other half in Mount Ebal, the Mount of the Curse.
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Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.
Josephus ' reference to a " gate of the Essenes " in his description of the course of " the most ancient " of the three walls of Jerusalem, in the Mount Zion area, perhaps suggests an Essene community living in this quarter of the city or regularly gathering at this part of the Temple precincts.
According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia ( see Obadiah 1: 21 ).
See Vanderkam 2002, p. 95 .</ ref > Apart from the sectarian variants unique to the Samaritan Pentateuch such as the reference to the worship of God on Mount Gerizim, the Dead Sea Scroll texts have demonstrated that a Pentateuchal text type resembling the Samaritan Pentateuch goes back to the second century BCE and perhaps even earlier.
Dead Sea Scroll fragment 4Q41 ( 981 ) contains a text of which makes no reference to Mount Gerizim, but matches the Masoretic Text.
Her father was the ruler of a city called either under his name, as " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus ", or as " Sipylus ", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.
Two feature films reference Mount Holyoke of the 1960s.
Sikhs Mox Lamonti translates to " Friends of two mountains ", which is a reference to the Mount Baker Council's camps Black Mountain and Fire Mountain.
Mount Olivet was founded around 1820 incorporated on December 27, 1851 and was named after the Mount of Olives, a biblical reference.
It has long been a major surveying reference point for maps and plats of the area between Mount Mansfield and Mount Washington.
Mount Vernon's growth was helped by its central location in reference to the mining, logging and farming communities of the eastern and central parts of the county as well as its access to Puget Sound.
The specific name is derived from the New Latin word for lingonberries, vitis-idaea ; itself ultimately derived from Latin vitis (" vine ") and idaea, the feminine form of idaeus ( literally " from Mount Ida ", used in reference to raspberries, Rubus idaeus ).
The Mowatt family paid for Cleckheaton Library and also the reference library at Cleckheaton's grammar ( later secondary ) school, Whitcliffe Mount which bears their name.
He is also frequently referred to as Mr. Glücksburg ; this reference to his family dates back to at least 1935 when Archimandrite Christoforos Ktenas referred to the late King Constantine I of Greece as " Ντίνος Γλυξβούργος " ( Tino Glücksburg ), in his book on Mount Athos.
The novel Seven Days in May mentions a facility called Mount Thunder, a reference to Mount Weather, but the road descriptions in the book make it quite clear that it is the same facility.
For example, the highest mountain by elevation in reference to sea level belongs to Mount Everest, located on the border of Nepal and Tibet, China ; however the highest mountain by measurement of apex to base belongs to Mauna Kea in Hawaii, United States.
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Being associated with the right hand side was traditionally a reference to strength and virtue ( cf sinister, which derives from the latin for left ).
The word " ecumenical " derives from the Greek language "", which literally means " the inhabited world ", – a reference to the Roman Empire that later was extended to apply to the world in general.
The earliest reference to this practice derives from Timaeus.
The Latin term meconium derives from the Greek μήκων, mēkōn, poppy, in reference either to its tarry appearance that may resemble some raw opium preparations, or to Aristotle's belief that it induces sleep in the fetus.
This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.
Through late 14th century Old French magique, the word " magic " derives via Latin magicus from the Greek adjective magikos ( μαγικός ) used in reference to the " magical " arts of the Persian Magicians ( Greek: magoi, singular mágos, μάγος ), the Zoroastrian astrologer priests of the ancient Persian Empire.
The name " Merostomata " derives from the Greek roots (, " thigh ") and (, " mouth "), in reference to the animals possession of appendages which are mouthparts at their proximal end, but swimming legs at their distal end.
" Chelan " derives from a Chelan Indian word meaning " deep water ," likely a reference to-long Lake Chelan, which reaches a maximum depth of 1, 486 feet ( 453 m ).
Another theory states Woonsocket derives from " thunder mist ," in reference to the largest waterfall on the Blackstone River, which lies at the center of the city.
The band's name derives from a 1950s slang phrase meaning " square ", but is often mistaken for a reference to the sex position, " 69 ".
Next to this lies Bunhill Fields, the name deriving from " Bone Hill ", which is possibly a reference to the district having been used for occasional burials from at least Saxon times, though more likely it derives from the unusual events of the mid-16th century.
The name ancistrus derives from the Greek ' agkistron ' meaning hook-a reference to the form of the cheek odontodes.
The name derives from arachne in reference to a spider and its web.
It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek lamprós ( λαμπρός, " bright ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the former in reference to brilliant coloration of opahs.
It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek atelís ( ἆτελής, " imperfect ") + pús ( πούς, " foot ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the Greek part in reference to the reduced pectoral and ventral fins of the jellynoses.
The word marrabenta derives from the Portuguese rebentar ( arrabentar in the local vernacular ), meaning to break, a reference to cheap guitar strings that snapped quickly.
The reference derives from these rockets making a high-pitch whistling sound during their ascent.
This particular speculation derives from Ockeghem's reference, in the lament he wrote on the death of Binchois in 1460, to a chanson by Binchois dated to that time.
This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.
The tribal name is Brittonic rather than Old English and derives from * siccā, meaning ' dry ', which is perhaps a reference to the local stream, the Hiz.
The term derives from the taxation paid on tuns or casks of wine, and was later used in reference to the weight of a ship's cargo ; however, in modern maritime usage, " tonnage " specifically refers to a calculation of the volume or cargo volume of a ship.
Indeed, there is frequent reference in Makawao ( which means " edge of the forest ") to a paniolo ( cowboy ) ambiance that derives from this ranching activity.
The name Camel derives from the Cornish language for ' the crooked one ', a reference to its winding course.
Many scholars now believe that או ּ ר ִ ים ( Urim ) simply derives from the Hebrew term א ּ ר ּ ר ִ ים ( Arrim ), meaning curses, and thus that Urim and Thummim essentially means cursed or faultless, in reference to the deity's view of an accused — in other words Urim and Thummim were used to answer the question innocent or guilty.
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One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.
so during the period approximately from 1941 to 1946, Patchen often used private detective stories as a myth reference, and the `` private eye '' as a myth hero.
This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.
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Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.
That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.
The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.
But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce.
The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.
Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.
While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".
Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
The original meaning may be from " white " ( in reference to the permanent snow.
Apart from the fundamental function of providing astronomers with a reference frame to report their observations in, astrometry is also fundamental for fields like celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics and galactic astronomy.
In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.
It is the events of 27 BC from which he obtained his traditional name of Augustus, which historians use in reference from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.
The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).
The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.
The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent, " outrageous treatment ", in general.
He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.
For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.
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