In naming the ordinance, Isaac Abadi, the British Mandate's official translator, used the Hebrew word "samim" for "drugs".
Emeth (Hebrew אמת : "truth," "firmness," or "veracity") is a Calormene character from C. S. Lewis's book The Last Battle from The Chronicles of Narnia series.
סם – drug, narcotic – Hebrew conjugation tables.
To the Hebrew mind Sheol was simply the state or abode of the dead. It was not the same as the grave, though it was so translated in some of the older versions. The grave was the resting place of the body from which the spirit had departed, while Sheol was the resting place of departed spirits, or personalities.
pharmacy. noun בֵּית מִרקַחַת pharmacy, drugstore, dispensary, chemist shop. בית מרקחת
In his commentary on Galatians, New Testament scholar Douglas Moo says the similarity of pharmakeia to our English word “pharmacy” does reveal a basic meaning of dispensing drugs for medicinal purposes.
Strongs's #5331: pharmakeia - Greek/Hebrew Definitions - Bible Tools. from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively):--sorcery, witchcraft.
Gehenna is the Greek term for the Hebrew Gai-Ben-Hinnom meaning Valley of the Son of Himmon. – It is an actual valley outside of old Jerusalem that was a smoldering garbage dump at the time of Jesus.
It is probably either a liturgical-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, with the meaning of "stop and listen." Another proposal is that selah can be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm.
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits. (lowercase) hell.
The Acra (also spelled Akra, from Ancient Greek: Ἄκρα, Hebrew: חקרא ,חקרה Ḥaqra(h)), with the meaning of "stronghold" (see under "Etymology"), was a place in Jerusalem thought to have had a fortified compound built by Antiochus Epiphanes, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, following his sack of the city in 168 BCE.
Hebrew Translation for "shark" כָּרִישׁ karish.
naw-har' Verb. to shine, beam, light, burn. (Qal) to beam, be radiant.
The name Tor is boy's name meaning "Turtledove". An interesting and attractive bicultural choice--the Hebrew version is used for babies born in spring, when turtledoves arrive--especially as a middle.
The word kyrios originally meant “power” or “might,” but over time it came to mean “lord” or “master.” When the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew to Greek, it used kyrios for “Lord” wherever the words YHWH or Adonai occurred in the Hebrew text.
cool, calm, self-possessed (of spirit)
Origin:Hebrew. Meaning:gatherer of people. Asaph is a masculine name of Hebrew origin. Derived from 'āsāp̄, "collector," Asaph means "a gatherer of people." It's a rare name that speaks to a warm and welcoming soul inspired by the biblical musical leader.
The word amen is clearly used at the end of a prayer and has been for centuries. But Selah is a word used purely in the Psalms and in song. Apart from the word amen, which has a clear etymology and purpose, Selah is one word we may never truly understand.
Maranatha [H] [S] ( 1 Corinthians 16:22 ) consists of two Aramean words, Maran'athah, meaning, "our Lord comes," or is "coming." If the latter interpretation is adopted, the meaning of the phrase is, "Our Lord is coming, and he will judge those who have set him at nought." (Compare Phil 4:5 ; James 5:8 James 5:9 .)
Gehenna, also called Gehinnom, abode of the damned in the afterlife in Jewish and Christian eschatology (the doctrine of last things).
In the Septuagint (an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek), the Greek term ᾅδης (Hades) is used to translate the Hebrew term שאול (Sheol) in almost all instances, only three of them are not matched with Hades: Job 24:19 (γῆ, "earth, land"), Proverbs 23:14 (θάνατος, "death") and Ezekiel 32:21 (βόθρου or ...
Roman Catholic Christians who believe in purgatory interpret passages such as 2 Timothy 1:18, Matthew 12:32, Luke 23:43, 1 Corinthians 3:11–3:15 and Hebrews 12:29 as support for prayer for purgatorial souls who are believed to be within an active interim state for the dead undergoing purifying flames (which could be ...
The name Barzillai is primarily a male name of Hebrew origin that means My Iron. Biblical name, occasionally used in the US and the UK during the 17th to 19th centuries.
The Greek word <f>cipµaKa (pharmaka) is more appropriate here than the English 'drugs', as pharmaka include a wider range of substances than those which we would consider as drugs.
SOME people hold the religious view that it is wrong for a Christian to take medicine in any form. This is wrong. The Bible makes it clear that God has provided medicines for the use of man. “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man…” (Psalm 104:14).