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Job (biblical figure) Job ( / dʒoʊb / JOHB; Hebrew: אִיּוֹב 'Īyyōv; Greek: Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In Islam, Job ( Arabic: أيوب, romanized : Ayyūb) is also considered a prophet . Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that ...
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh[ a] ( / tɑːˈnɑːx /; [ 1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra ( / miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ. . ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have ...
The Greek word κοινή ( koinḗ) itself means "common". The word is pronounced / kɔɪˈneɪ /, / ˈkɔɪneɪ /, or / kiːˈniː / in US English and / ˈkɔɪniː / in UK English. The pronunciation of the word koine itself gradually changed from [koinéː] (close to the Classical Attic pronunciation [koi̯.nɛ̌ː]) to [cyˈni] (close to ...
Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, [ 1] which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs ...
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...
According to traditional Jewish enumeration, the Hebrew Bible is composed of 24 books which came into being over a span of almost a millennium. [1]: 17 The Bible's earliest texts reflect a Late Bronze Age civilization of the Ancient Near East, while its last text, usually thought to be the Book of Daniel, comes from a second century BCE Hellenistic period.
Sosthenes. Sosthenes / ˈ s ɒ s θ ə. n iː z / (Greek: Σωσθένης, Sōsthénēs, "safe in strength") was the chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, who, according to the Acts of the Apostles, was seized and beaten by the mob in the presence of Gallio, the Roman governor, when Gallio refused to proceed against Paul at the instigation of the Jews (Acts 18:12–17).
Belial ( / ˈbiːli.əl /; [ 1] Hebrew: בְּלִיַּעַל, Bəlīyyaʿal) is a term occurring in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament which later became personified as the devil [ 2] in Christian texts of the New Testament. [ 3] Alternate spellings include Baalial, Balial, Belhor, Beliall, Beliar, Berial, Bylyl and Beliya'al.