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v. t. e. A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible . The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". The use of the word "canon" to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by ...
Mazzaroth ( Hebrew Transliteration: מַזָּרוֹת Mazzārōṯ, LXX Μαζουρωθ, Mazourōth) is a Biblical Hebrew Word found in the Book of Job (38:32) and literally meaning "constellations," according to 10th-century biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, [1] while others interpret the word as Garland of Crowns, [2] but its context is that of ...
Bible. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method ( exegesis) that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and many other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of ...
The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal . In theological sources, predominantly Christian, Beelzebub is another name for Satan. He is known in demonology as one of the seven deadly demons or seven princes of Hell, Beelzebub representing gluttony and envy. The Dictionnaire Infernal describes Beelzebub as a being capable of ...
Caleb ( / ˈkeɪləb /; Hebrew: כָּלֵב, Kalev [kaˈlev], Tiberian vocalization: Kālēḇ ), is a figure who appears in the Hebrew Bible as a representative of the Tribe of Judah during the Israelites ' journey to the Promised Land . Following the Israelite conquest of Canaan, Caleb was described as a Kenizzite and is said to have ...
List of biblical names. Smith's Bible Dictionary 1863. Easton's Bible Dictionary 1894. Nave's Topical Bible 1905. Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [1] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity. Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.