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Words (Strong's)
8 results- WordH4304 מִטְפַּחַת · miṭpachath (Hebrew)a wide cloak (for a woman). The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH4533 מַסְוֶה · maçveh (Hebrew)a veil. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordH4541 מַסֵּכָה · maççêkâh (Hebrew)properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image). The Hebrew word stands 28 times in the original text.
- WordH6532 פֹּרֶכֶת · pôreketh (Hebrew)a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen. The Hebrew word stands 25 times in the original text.
- WordH7289 רָדִיד · râdîyd (Hebrew)a veil (as expanded). The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
Themes
4 results- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
Topics
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1 resultVoices
4 results- VoiceEpiphanius ScholasticusEpiphanius was a Greek-speaking scholar who worked at Vivarium, the monastery Cassiodorus founded on his family estate in Calabria after retiring from a long career in the…
- VoiceAratorArator was born in Liguria in northern Italy around 490 and orphaned young. He was raised and educated under the care of Laurentius, bishop of Milan, and trained as a lawyer…
- VoiceDorotheos of GazaDorotheos was born about 505, probably at Antioch, into a wealthy family, and given the best education available. He says himself that he came to love books so much that he…
- VoiceBesa The CoptBesa was a Coptic monk of the White Monastery, the great walled community near Sohag in Upper Egypt, and the disciple of its formidable abbot Shenoute. When Shenoute died — by…
Apocrypha (study resources)
24 results- Study resource2 Esdras 4:42For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
- Study resource2 Esdras 5:35And he said unto me, Thou canst not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord? whereunto was I born then? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the…
- Study resource2 Esdras 7:12Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and very painful.
- Study resource2 Esdras 9:46A study resource outside the 66-book canon, labelled as such.
- Study resourceJudith 1:13Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and…
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H4304מִטְפַּחַת miṭpachath — a wide cloak (for a woman)H4533מַסְוֶה maçveh — a veilH4541מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh — properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image)H6532פֹּרֶכֶת pôreketh — a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screenH7289רָדִיד râdîyd — a veil (as expanded)H6809צָעִיף tsâʻîyph — a veil