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Biblical womanhood is a movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly in the United States. It adopts a complementarian or patriarchal view of gender roles, and emphasizes passages such as Titus 2 in describing what Christian women should be like. According to author Rachel Held Evans, it is driven by the conviction that "the virtuous ...
Lemuel (biblical king) Lemuel ( Hebrew: לְמוּאֵל Ləmū’ēl, "to him, El ") is the name of a biblical king mentioned in Proverbs 31 :1 and 4, but whose identity remains uncertain. [1] Speculation exists and proposes that Lemuel should be identified with Solomon or Hezekiah, [2] while others think he may be a king of Massa.
Proverbs 31 is the 31st and final chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] Verses 1 to 9 present the advice which King Lemuel 's mother gave to him, about how a just king should reign. The remaining verses detail the attributes of a good wife or an ideal woman (verses 10–31).
The Book of Sirach was originally written in Biblical Hebrew and was also known as the "Proverbs of ben Sira" ( משלי בן סירא, Mišlē ben Sirā) or the "Wisdom of ben Sira" ( חכמת בן סירא, Ḥokhmat ben Sirā ). The book was not accepted into the Hebrew Bible and the original Hebrew text was not preserved by the Masoretes.
Fallen woman" is an archaic term which was used to describe a woman who has "lost her innocence", and fallen from the grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman's chastity [2] and with female promiscuity .
Wisdom (personification) The personification of wisdom, typically as a righteous woman, is a motif found in religious and philosophical texts, most notably in the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish and Christian texts. The Greek Septuagint, and both the Qumran and Masada Hebrew versions of Ben Sira conclude with a first ...
Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course of important events while others are powerless to affect even their destinies. The majority of women in the Bible are anonymous and unnamed. Individual portraits of various women in the ...
Tamar #1 – daughter-in-law of Judah, as well as the mother of two of his children, the twins Zerah and Perez. Genesis [190] Tamar #2 – daughter of King David, and sister of Absalom. Her mother was Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. II Samuel [191] Tamar #3 – daughter of David's son Absalom.