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names Most Hebrew personal names in the
Bible are compounds which begin or end with the divine name Yahweh, such as Jehoshaphat, ‘Yahweh establishes justice’, or Joel, ‘Yahweh is God’. Many names of towns and villages were also compounds with the name of God—Bethel, ‘house of God’—or compounded with the place's reputation—Bethlehem ‘house of food’. Some places preserved their ancient
Canaanite name (e.g.
Megiddo; Zech. 12:
II), while others were changed by new rulers, as when
Herod renamed
Samaria as Sebaste. The forms -iah and Jo- are derived from the divine name Yahweh.
Some personal names are changed, indicating the authority of the one who effects the change:
Jacob to Israel (Gen. 32: 28), Simon to Peter (Mark 3: 16). The latter was an unexpected change and it indicated that the very human Simon was to be a ‘rock’, for Peter = Cephas, Aramaic for ‘rock’, and under this new name he takes his place in history.
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Las Palmas Canary Is. - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 132 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Las Palmas Canary Is. Continent associated with map: Africa map level: city Map Description: the city of Las Palmas on the Canary Islands.
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Mogadishu Somalia - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 145 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Mogadishu Somalia Continent associated with map: Africa map level: city Map Description: the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Mogadishu is the city that the majority of the U.N. peacekeeping force inhabitated during their stay.
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Tangier Morocco - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 128 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Tangier Morocco Continent associated with map: Africa map level: city Map Description: the city of Tangier, Morocco.
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Angola - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 124 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Angola Continent associated with map: Africa map level: country Map Description: the country of Angola.
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Bophuthatswana South Africa - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 137 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Bophuthatswana South Africa Continent associated with map: Africa map level: territory, or sub-region within a country Map Description: the region of Bophuthatswana
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Burkina Faso - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 127 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Burkina Faso Continent associated with map: Africa map level: country Map Description: the country of Burkina Faso.
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Cabinda Province Angola - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 149 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Cabinda Province Angola Continent associated with map: Africa map level: first level adminstrative dept within a country, i.e. state, province, department, lander, etc. Map Description: the state of Cabinda. Cabinda is formerly a part of Angola.
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Cape Verde - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 126 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Cape Verde Continent associated with map: Africa map level: country Map Description: the country of Cape Verde.
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Casablanca RL (Regional Locator) - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 159 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Casablanca RL (Regional Locator) Continent associated with map: Africa map level: continent or region comprising two or more...
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Chad - MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM)
Map from: MGMapsOfTheWorld (TM); 1/1/1996; 123 words
; 00-00-0000 Map Name: Chad Continent associated with map: Africa map level: country Map Description: the country of Chad.
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Yangon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the founder of the last line of Burmese kings, made the town his capital in 1753. Under his rule Yangon was given its present name ( "Rangoon" is a less accurate transliteration) and was built up as the chief port of Myanmar. It was held briefly by the...
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Yantai
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was opened to foreign trade in 1862. By the Chefoo Convention, signed there in 1876, many new treaty ports were established. A rail line, built in 1955, links Yantai with Qingdao and Jinan. The name sometimes appears as Yen-t'ai.
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yeoman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rank in noble households were also called yeomen, and thus the name was given to specific branches of the royal household, e.g...service in the South African War (1899-1902) earned them the name Imperial Yeomanry, and in 1907 they became a part of the Territorial...
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...policies of the Bolshevik regime. In 1922 Yesenin married Isadora Duncan and toured the United States and Europe. After they separated he married a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. At 30 he committed suicide. His name also appears as Esenin.
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yew
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
yew name for evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Taxus, somewhat similar to hemlock but bearing red berrylike fruits instead of true...
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