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Peshitta
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Maroon 5
Maroon 5Rock bandAccording to the press, and summed up by Walter Tunis of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Maroon 5 was "one of the hottest new pop rock bands in the land." In February 2005 the music industry added its approval to the statement by presenting Maroon 5 with a Grammy Award for Best New... Read more |
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Zacharias
Zacharias [Gr. from Heb. Zechariah ] or Zachary [Eng. from Heb.]. 1 Priest to whom an angel appeared and foretold the birth of his son, John the Baptist. Luke 1.5-80. He and Elizabeth, his wife, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church; their feast day is Nov. 5. 2 Martyr prophet, the same... Read more |
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covenant
covenant , agreement entered into voluntarily by two or more parties to do or refrain from doing certain acts. In the Bible and in theology the covenant is the agreement or engagement of God with man as revealed in the Scriptures. In law a covenant is a contract under seal or an agreement by deed.... Read more |
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incense
incense perfume diffused by the burning of aromatic gums or spices. Incense was used in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and is mentioned in the Old and the New Testaments. It is also found in the major religions of Asia. The Babylonians used it while praying in the 6th and 5th cent. BC and the... Read more |
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Abram
Abram ♂ Biblical name, a variant of Abraham. It was probably originally a distinct name (meaning ‘high father’ in Hebrew). According to Genesis 17:5, the patriarch's name was changed by divine command from Abram to Abraham. From the Middle Ages, however, if not before, it was... Read more |
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Vulgate
Vulgate [Lat. Vulgata editio =common edition], most ancient extant version of the whole Christian Bible . Its name derives from a 13th-century reference to it as the "editio vulgata." The official Latin version of the Roman Catholic Church, it was prepared c.AD 383-AD 405 by St. Jerome ... Read more |
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Agatha
Agatha ♀ Latinized version of the Greek name Agathē, from the feminine form of the adjective agathos ‘good, honourable’. This was the name of a Christian saint popular in the Middle Ages; she was a Sicilian martyr of the 3rd century who suffered the fate of having her... Read more |
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scientific notation
scientific notation means of expressing very large or very small numbers in a compact form that is easy to use in computations. In this notation, any number is expressed as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10 that indicates the correct position of the decimal point in the original... Read more |
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Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas one of the Twelve Apostles, called Didymus. According to John, he refused to believe in the resurrection until he saw Jesus' wounds; hence the expression "doubting Thomas." John 11.16; 14.5; 20.24-29; 21.2. By tradition he is said to have gone as missionary to Parthia or India.... Read more |
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Tatian's Diatessaron and the Old Testament Peshitta
...consult the Syriac version of the OT...and the OT Peshitta.2 In a...contained in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels...of the OT Peshitta.3 I concluded...untenable.5 The present...of the ... |