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A re'em, also reëm ( Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized : rəʾēm ), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. [note 1] It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew ), [citation needed] "wild ox ...
Joanna, wife of Chuza. Joanna ( Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized:Iōanna, also Greek: Ἰωάνα ), the wife of Chuza ( γυνὴ Χουζᾶ ), [2] is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying ...
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or so been depicted as a white horse - or goat -like animal with a long straight horn with spiralling ...
t. e. 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 ...
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.
The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir (Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris). The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created in the style of mille-fleurs ("thousand flowers") and woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris around 1500.
The Flood of Noah and Companions ( c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a most likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage ( pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [2] of the New Testament . In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives.