Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volume 2William W. Woodward, 1807 - Bible |
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... ancient Chaldæans . Others derive them , birith , which signifies a covenant , from , batar , which signi- fies to divide or cut asunder , because covenants were made by dividing a beast , and by the parties 4 GENESIS .
... ancient Chaldæans . Others derive them , birith , which signifies a covenant , from , batar , which signi- fies to divide or cut asunder , because covenants were made by dividing a beast , and by the parties 4 GENESIS .
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... signifies Golden- Dagon , naturally recals to mind the passage in the scrip- tures , where the house of Dagon is mentioned , and the image of idolatry bows down before the Holy Ark . " " Many of the most ancient temples at Pagahm are ...
... signifies Golden- Dagon , naturally recals to mind the passage in the scrip- tures , where the house of Dagon is mentioned , and the image of idolatry bows down before the Holy Ark . " " Many of the most ancient temples at Pagahm are ...
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... signifying to replace ; because he was born shortly after the death of one of his brothers . Other names are descriptive of good or bad qualitiés : as Modi , a good man : Fadibba , father of the town . Indeed the very names of their ...
... signifying to replace ; because he was born shortly after the death of one of his brothers . Other names are descriptive of good or bad qualitiés : as Modi , a good man : Fadibba , father of the town . Indeed the very names of their ...
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... dis- tinct they knew their own origin , and took a pride in preserving the name of their author . Thence probably it comes that the name of children signified , with the an- cients , a nation , or certain sort of people GENESIS . 31.
... dis- tinct they knew their own origin , and took a pride in preserving the name of their author . Thence probably it comes that the name of children signified , with the an- cients , a nation , or certain sort of people GENESIS . 31.
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... signifying a husband . He builds his opinion upon the testimony of some rabbins . He apprehends that she ap- plied to the child ... signifies a son in law , and not a husband . A person thus related is a son initiated into a 34 EXODUS .
... signifying a husband . He builds his opinion upon the testimony of some rabbins . He apprehends that she ap- plied to the child ... signifies a son in law , and not a husband . A person thus related is a son initiated into a 34 EXODUS .
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Page 210 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Page 211 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Page 389 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 118 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Page 329 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 390 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 306 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Page 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 339 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Page 207 - They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.