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Zaphnath-Paaneah. Zaphnath-Paaneah ( Biblical Hebrew: צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ Ṣāp̄naṯ Paʿnēaḥ, LXX: Ψονθομφανήχ Psonthomphanḗch) is the name given by Pharaoh to Joseph in the Genesis narrative ( Genesis 41:45 ). The name may be of Egyptian origins, but there is no straightforward etymology; some Egyptologists ...
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef [ 1] ( יוֹסֵף ). "Joseph" is used, [ 2] along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José".
Diotrephes. Diotrephes was a man mentioned in the Third Epistle of John (verses 9–11). His name means "nourished by Jupiter". As scholar Raymond E. Brown comments, "Diotrephes is not a particularly common name." [ 1]
Carpenter's square or tools, holding the infant Jesus Christ, staff with lily blossoms, two turtle doves, and a rod of spikenard. Patronage. Catholic Church, among others fathers, workers, carpenters, married people, persons living in exile, the sick and dying, for a happy death. Part of a series on. Josephology.
For the love of money is the root of all of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (The full verse is shown but Bold added being the subject of this page.) Another popular text, the New International Version has "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil
Though there are more Greek words for love, variants and possibly subcategories, a general summary considering these Ancient Greek concepts is: Agápe ( ἀγάπη, agápē[ 1]) means "love: esp. unconditional love, charity; the love of God for person and of person for God". [ 2] Agape is used in ancient texts to denote unconditional love, and ...
Commenting upon the command to love the neighbor [5] is a discussion recorded [6] between Rabbi Akiva, who declared this verse in Leviticus to contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Genesis 5:1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam; in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"), as the verse expressing the ...
Joseph is thrown into a well, and was taken as a slave by a passing caravan. When the brothers claimed to the father that a wolf had eaten Joseph, he observed patience. [48] In the Bible, Joseph discloses himself to his brethren before they return to their father the second time after buying grain. [49]