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Cherubs
One of the heavenly beings who directly attend to God according to Abrahamic religions
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A cherub (Heb. ???????, pl. ??????????, eng. trans k?ruv, pl. k?ruvîm, dual k?ruvayim lat. cherub, pl cherubi, Assyrian ?????) is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Bible, usually associated with ...
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Leviathan (Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, Līvəyāṯān) is a creature with the form of a sea serpent from Jewish mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of ...
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Lucifer
name for the "Morning star" (the planet Venus, or other stars) in Latin, sometimes used as a name for the devil or Satan
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The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology. He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah and before that in the Vulgate (the late- ...
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Cyrus the Great (Old Persian: ??????????, IPA: Persian: ????? ????, ) (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid ...
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Beulah Land is a well-known gospel song with text by Edgar Page Stites (1836–1921) and music by John R. Sweney (1837–1899). Stites’s work dates from 1875 or 1876; the tune — which is listed in hymnals ...
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Seraph
Type of angel in Abrahamic religions
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A seraph (, "the burning one"/"serpent"; or seraphim , in the King James Version also seraphims (plural); Hebrew: שָׂרָף śārāf, plural שְׂרָפִים śərāfîm; Latin: seraphim and seraphin (plural), also s ...
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The Fall of Babylon denotes the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BCE. Historians also use the term Liberation of Babylonia interchangeably.
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Sargon II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Šarru-kīn, probably meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the downfall of his predecessor Shalmaneser V in ...
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Tree of Jesse
Artistic depiction of the family tree of Jesus of Nazareth according to biblical accounts
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The Tree of Jesse is a depiction in art of the ancestors of Christ, shown in a tree which rises from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David and is the original use of the family tree as a schematic ...
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The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיהו) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription ...
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Mount Seir
Mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba
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Mount Seir (Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, Har Sēʿīr) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast ...
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Pool of Siloam
Number of rock-cut pools on the southern slope of the City of David
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The term Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: בְּרֵכַת הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, Bərēḵat haŠīlōaḥ, Arabic: بِرْكَة سِلْوَان Birka Silwān) refers to a number of rock-cut pools, located outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem ...
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Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come forth out of Sheba), BWV65, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1724 in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 ...
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