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Modern scholars have pointed out that the Hebrew term Apholim, translated "emerods" in the King James Version, could also be translated as "tumors", as is done in the Revised Version of the Bible. In the fourth century A.D., the early Christian scholar Jerome translated it as "swellings of the secret parts".
For example, since murder was a capital crime, giving false testimony in a murder case was subject to the death penalty. Those eager to receive or listen to false testimony were also subject to punishment. False witness is among the six things God hates, king Solomon says. False testimony is among the things that defile a person, Jesus says.
The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament both contain narratives, poems, and instructions which describe, encourage, command, condemn, reward, punish and regulate violent actions by God, [1] individuals, groups, governments, and nation-states. Among the violent acts referred to are war, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, murder, rape, genocide ...
Master Mahan, in the religious texts of the Latter Day Saint movement, is a title assumed first by Cain and later by his descendant Lamech. The title indicates that Cain and Lamech were each the "master" of a "great secret" in which they covenanted with Satan to kill for personal gain. [1] The term is found in Joseph Smith 's translation of the ...
Messianic Secret. A 9th-century Gospel of Mark, from the Codex Boreelianus. The Messianic Secret is a motif in the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus is portrayed as commanding his followers to maintain silence about his Messianic mission. Attention was first drawn to this motif in 1901 by William Wrede . Part of Wrede's theory involved statements ...
Delilah. Delilah ( / dɪˈlaɪlə / dil-EYE-lə; Hebrew: דְּלִילָה, romanized : Dəlīlā, meaning "delicate"; [1] Arabic: دليلة, romanized : Dalīlah; Greek: Δαλιδά, romanized : Dalidá) is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. [2] She is loved by Samson, [2] a Nazirite who ...
Hiram Abiff (also Hiram Abif or the Widow's son) is the central character of an allegory presented to all candidates during the third degree in Freemasonry . Hiram is presented as the chief architect of King Solomon's Temple. He is murdered inside this Temple by three ruffians, after they failed to obtain from him the Master Masons' secrets.
Much Hebrew theophory occurs in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament. The most prominent theophory involves names referring to: El, a word meaning might, power and (a) god in general, and hence in Judaism, God and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal. Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh.