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Thomas is a male name of Aramaic origins. The English spelling "Thomas" is a transliteration through Latin "Thomas", of the approximate Greek transliteration ( Greek : Θωμᾶς , romanized : Thōmâs ), from Aramaic " תאמא " ("tɑʔwmɑʔ"), from Classic Syriac " ܬܐܡܐ " (toma), meaning ' twin '.
Thomas the Apostle. Thomas the Apostle ( Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [ a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting ...
v. t. e. Mediumship is the pseudoscientific [ 1] practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". [ 2][ 3] There are different types of mediumship or spirit channelling, including séance tables, trance, and ouija.
Tammy is a feminine given name. It can be a short form of the names Tamsin, Thomasina, Thomasin, or Tamar, Tamara or other names starting with Tam. [1] Tamsin, Thomasina, and Thomasin are feminine versions of the name Thomas, a Greek form of the Aramaic name Te'oma, meaning twin. [2] Tamara is a Russian form of the Hebrew name Tamar, which ...
Timothy is a masculine name. It is a version of the Greek name Τιμόθεος ( Timόtheos) meaning 'one who honours God', from τιμή 'honour' and θεός 'god'. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Timothy (and its variations) is a common name in several countries. In the United States, the name was most popular in the 1960s, ranking 13th among all boys' names.
v. t. e. Mar Thoma Sleeva (Saint Thomas Cross) are ancient crosses associated with the community of Indian subcontinent, who trace their origins to the evangelism of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century AD. The Saint Thomas Christians, which is one of the oldest Christian communities of the world, [ 1][ 2][ 3] survive in the Malabar region in ...
Adam is a common masculine given name in the English language, of Hebrew origin. The name derives from Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם), the first human according to the Hebrew Bible, which is, in turn, derived from the noun adamah (אדמה), meaning "soil" or "earth". When used as noun, אָדָם means "man" or "humanity".
The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is an extra-canonical [ 1] sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian ...