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Gibbôr (גִּבֹּר, Strong's #1368), “hero. David, who had proven himself as a warrior, attracted “heroes” to his band while he was being pursued by Saul (2 Sam. He had to lead his troops in battle, and as commander he was expected to be a “hero. ” Early in David’s life, he was recognized as a “hero” (
Asher - Asher and Simeon were the only tribes west of the Jordan which furnished no
Hero or judge for the nation
Be - ) To exist in a certain manner or relation, - whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, - a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a
Hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man
Academy - ) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the
Hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head
Be - ) To exist in a certain manner or relation, - whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, - a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a
Hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man
Joz'Abad - ) ...
A
Hero of Manasseh, like the preceding
Sake - The
Hero fights for the sake of glory men labor for the sake of subsistence or wealth
Samson - (Σαμψών)...
Samson was the popular
Hero of the tribe of Dan who began to deliver Israel from the Philistines, the Nazirite whose secret of strength lay in his hair, the blinded giant who prayed for power to avenge himself and his country in the hour of his death (Judges 13-16)
Hinnom, Valley of - ) "The son of Hinnom" was some ancient
Hero who encamped there (Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, 172)
Zich'ri - ) ...
An Ephraimite
Hero in the invading army of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Nehemias - The
Hero of 2Esdras, and cupbearer at the Persian court of Susa, who obtained the commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes I (445 B
Nehemiah - The
Hero of 2Esdras, and cupbearer at the Persian court of Susa, who obtained the commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes I (445 B
Noah - ’ In one tradition Noah is the
Hero of the Flood, and answers to Ut-napishtim in the Bab
Saul - The story of the
Hero who was called against his will to the throne, and who lived and died fighting for the liberty of his country, has all the elements of high tragedy
Orion - ) Sabaism or worship of the heavenly hosts and
Hero worship were blended in his person
Romance - ) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a
Hero or a
Heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like
Reat - ) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great
Hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc
Cherethites And Pelethites - Unwillingness to believe that foreigners stood so near the national
Hero led certain Jewish scholars to assert that the two clans were Israelites
Nergal - A Hamite name ("great
Hero"
Noah - —The
Hero of the Hebrew version of the Semitic tradition of the Flood; mentioned twice in the Gospels
Noah - —The
Hero of the Hebrew version of the Semitic tradition of the Flood; mentioned twice in the Gospels
Hinnom - " It took its name from "some ancient
Hero, the son of Hinnom
Daniel - He certainly was not a younger man than the prophet who refers to him, as the
Hero of the Book of Daniel would have been
Hart - In
2 Samuel 1:19 , Saul is denominated "the roe of Israel;" and in the eighteenth verse of the ensuing chapter, we are told that "Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe:" a phraseology perfectly synonymous with the epithet swift-footed, which Homer has so frequently bestowed upon his
Hero Achilles
Job - ) The
Hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man
Ezer - The second Hebrew meaning is “help” or “hero
Man - "Geber ," "a mighty man, war-like
Hero", from gabar , "to be strong"
Nimrod - as the first of the ‘heroes,’ ‘a mighty hunter before the Lord,’ the ruler of four ancient Babylonian cities, and the founder of the Assyrian Empire. The nearest Babylonian parallel to the figure of Nimrod as yet discovered is Gilgamesh , the tyrant of Erech, whose adventures are recorded in the famous series of tablets to which the Deluge-story belongs, and who is supposed to be the
Hero so often represented on seals and palace-reliefs in victorious combat with a lion
Cycle - ) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the
Hero or
Heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins
ab'Ner - He then undertook to procure his recognition throughout Israel; but after leaving his presence for the purpose was enticed back by Joab, and treacherously murdered by him and his brother Abishai, at the gate of the city, partly, no doubt, from fear lest so distinguished a convert to their cause should gain too high a place in David's favor, but ostensibly in retaliation for the death of Asahel. David in sorrow and indignation, poured forth a simple dirge over the slain
Hero
Fortitude - 1: Steele's Christian
Hero; Mason's Ser
Descent to Hades - The idea of descent to Hades was a theme of many ancient religions to describe the work of a religious
Hero
Academics - Academia is said to derive its name from one Academus, a god or
Hero so called
Abner - He then undertook to procure David's recognition throughout Israel; but after leaving his presence for the purpose was enticed back by Joab, and treacherously murdered by him and his brother Abishai, at the gate of the city, ostensibly in retaliation for the death of Asahel; really, we may suppose, through jealousy, as he would have at least rivalled Joab in position. David, though unable to punish the powerful brothers, solemnized Abner's funeral with great respect and general mourning, and poured forth a simple dirge over the slain
Hero
Act - ) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the
Hero
Asher - Perhaps Asher's greatest
Hero was Anna, the prophetess who bore witness to the baby Jesus (
Luke 2:36-38 )
Glory - The
Hero pants for glory in the field
Archangel - The archangels Michael (
Daniel 10:13 ;
Daniel 12:1 ;
Enoch 9:1; 10:11), Gabriel (
Daniel 8:16 ;
Enoch 9:1; 20:7; 40:9), Raphael (
Tobit 3:17 ;
Tobit 12:15 ;
Enoch 10:4; 40:9) and Uriel (
Enoch 9:1; 19:1; 20:2) gain particular
Hero status. In particular, Michael (
Daniel 10:13 ,
Daniel 10:13,10:21 ;
Daniel 12:1 ;
Jude 1:9 ; Assumption of
Moses 12:7-9), Gabriel (gabriel , “hero of God”;
Daniel 8:16 ;
Daniel 9:21 ;
Luke 1:19 ,
Luke 1:19,1:26 ), and Raphael (rapael “God has healed”; a chief figure in the book of Tobit, see
Tobit 3:16-17 ) were cast as important interpreters, advocates, and intercessors
Jainism - He sacrificed all to follow Brahman asceticism, and was called Mahavira,
Hero, and Jina, conqueror
ma-Ase'Iah - ...
The "king's son," killed by Zichri the Ephraimitish
Hero in the invasion of Judah by Pekah king of Israel, during the reign of Ahaz
Jonah - The
Hero or rather anti-hero is mentioned in
2 Kings 14:23-29 as active in the reign of Jeroboam II (about 785-745 B
Insurrection - Its use in these passages is important as showing that Barabbas was not merely a robber (λῃστής,
John 18:40), but also a leader in one of those fierce fanatical out bursts which were so common in the last years of the Jewish nation, especially from the accession of
Herod. Such men had a deep hold on the popular sympathy, which goes to explain the strong demand of the people for the release of their
Hero, and the interest which the priests showed on behalf of Barabbas, notwithstanding their pretence to holiness
Samson - The son of Manoah of the tribe of Dan, Samson was a legendary
Hero who frequently did battle against the Philistines who, at that time, “had dominion over Israel” (
Judges 14:4 ). He is listed with the
Heroes of faith in
Hebrews 11:32 , because his strength came from God and because in his dying act, he demonstrated his faith
Judas - ” The proper name Judas was very common in the time of Christ because it was not only the Greek form of one of the twelve patriarchs, but it was also made popular by the Jewish
Hero Judas Maccabaeus who led the nation in their fight for independence from Syria in 166 B
Hymn - The Greek word signified specifically a poem in praise of a god or
Hero, but it is used, less exactly, also for a religious poem, even one of petition
Holy Grail, the - To the first class belong: the poetic "Conte del Graal" of Chrestien de Troyes (1180-1240) in which the Grail (not explained) has no religious character and the
Hero is Percival; "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach (1205-1215), based on the work of the French Guiot (Kyot), which conceives of the Grail as guarded in a castle by a special order of knights, Templeisen, who are nourished by its miraculous food-giving power; the Welsh folk-tales or the "Mabinogion" (13th century); and the English poem "Sir Percyvelle" (15th century)
Fool -
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, and Carlyle’s comment upon Napoleon: ‘He did not know true from false now when he looked at them,-the fearfulest penalty a man pays for yielding to untruth of heart’
Daniel, Book of - Generally, apocalyptic writings bear the name of ancient Heroes such as Adam, Enoch, or Baruch, who demonstrated in their time the type of character needed in the current situation of the writer. ...
Daniel 1:8-6:28 shows how in history Israelite Heroes stood firm in their resolve to stay true to God and their heritage. In six different situations an Israelite Hero faced extreme pressure to forsake God and tradition for personal safety and gain. In each case the Hero resisted threats or danger of loss of life with no assurance of victory other than his faith. As the ancient Heroes remained faithful, so people facing the despot could double their resolve and experience victorious faith. ...
A second stance emphasizes Daniel's relationship to other apocalyptic literature in which writers often use the names of ancient Heroes to describe history long past to bring a message to a present generation facing extreme persecution. Writing in the name of the ancient Hero gives authority to the writing and protection in the situation of extreme danger. This stance views Daniel as the Hero but not the author of the book
Samson - Perhaps it gave too unfavourable a picture of the
Hero’s love-affairs. Every people has its
Hero of prodigious strength, to whom marvellous feats are ascribed, and it becomes a hopeless task to discover the precise historical basis of the legends, which in this case are undoubtedly of great antiquity. the killing of the lion, the miraculous satisfying of the
Hero’s thirst, and his ruin at the hand of a woman. The whole story gives us a valuable insight into the life of the people; we note the grim rough humour of its
Hero, so entirely natural (ch. Samson is a popular
Hero, and we shall expect the directly religious interest of the story to be subordinate. He is a popular
Hero, and the permanent value of the story is to be sought in its ethical lessons . But if Samson stands as an example ‘of impotence of mind in body strong,’ he also stands, in Milton’s magnificent conception, as an example of patriotism and
Heroism in death, to all who ‘from his memory inflame their breast to matchless valour and adventures high
Areopagus - ...
With the temple of Mars near, the Parthenon of Minerva facing him, and the sanctuary of the Eumenides just below him, the beautiful temple of Theseus, the national
Hero (still remaining) in view, what divine power he needed to nerve him to declare, "God that made the world
Jon'Athan, - Saul would have sacrificed him; but the people interposed in behalf of the
Hero of that great day, and Jonathan was saved. ) ...
One of David's
Heroes
Gideon - ...
Gideon was now a national
Hero
Asher - of Jordan which produced no
Hero or judge
u'Rim And Thum'Mim - (
Numbers 20:28 ) When Joshua is solemnly appointed to succeed the great
Hero-law-giver he is bidden to stand before Eleazar, the priest, "who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim," and this counsel is to determine the movements of the host of Israel
Merits - Even the captain did not seem very grateful; so our
Hero ventured, in a roundabout style to hint, that such valuable services as his, having saved the vessel, ought to be rewarded at least with some few words of acknowledgment; when he was shocked to hear the captain say, 'What, sir, do you think you saved the vessel? Why, I gave you that rope to hold to keep you engaged, that you might not be in such a feverish state of alarm
Reu'Ben - No Judge, no prophet, no
Hero of the tribe of Reuben is handed down to us
Macedonia - Among them, Zeus as the father of Makedon, founding
Hero of the Macedonians, and Herakles are the two most important deities. In the cities of Thessalonica and Philippi, one Cabirus was venerated as the founding
Hero of the city. This originally Thracian
Hero became the prototype for the Christian saint George
Daniel - The most common usage of “Daniel” refers to the
Hero of the Book of Daniel
Daniel, Prophet - (Hebrew: God is my Judge) ...
The
Hero and traditional author of the book of the Old Testament which bears his name
Uz - The evidence of the Book of Job itself about its
Hero’s home seems to favour the neighbourhood of Edom or N. of Palestine, and that the Book of Job appears to represent its
Hero as living in the neighbourhood of the Arabian or Syro-Arabian desert
Lot - Lot has recently been connected with the people called on the Egyptian monuments Rotanu or Lotanu, who is supposed to have been the
Hero of the Edomite tribe Lotan
Charlemagne - Charlemagne is the
Hero of a cycle of romance in the Middle Ages
Fail - In bold enterprises, courage should never fail the
Hero
Flood - The Akkadian and Hebrew stories parallel each other in the following ways: the naming of the
Hero (Utnapishtim/Noah), the divine announcement of a flood, instructions to build a ship, the inclusion of animals in the ship, the dispatch of birds, the sacrifice the
Hero offered after the waters subsided, and other related details
Dance - The women are represented as "coming out" to do this and meet the
Hero.
Herod's extravagant promise to
Herodias' daughter shows that it was a rare deed in those regions (
Mark 6:22-23)
Caleb - Assisted by a portion of his tribe, he marched against Hebron, and slew the children of Anak: thence he proceeded to Debir, and finding the place almost impregnable, he offered his daughter Achsah in marriage to the
Hero that should take it
Dinah - Schechem, the prince, is the eponymous
Hero of the city of that name
Idolatry - ...
...
Hero worship, the worship of deceased ancestors, or of
Heroes
Hermon, Mount - Its highest peak is known as Qas Antar (“Fortress of Antar”), the black
Hero of Arab legend
Ark - ...
Extra-biblical Sources The Babylonian flood story, called the Gilgamesh epic, also tells of a large boat by which its
Hero survived the flood
Herod -
Herod (hĕr'od),
Hero-like. Not less than six
Herods exclusive of Archelaus are noted in Scripture:...
1.
Herod the Great was the second son of Antipater and appointed procurator of Judæa by Julius Cæsar, b. But fresh additions were constantly made in succeeding years, so that it was said that the temple was building forty and six years,
John 2:20, the work continuing long after
Herod's death.
Herod died at Jericho, b.
Herod Antipas, the son of
Herod the Great, first married a daughter of Aretas, "king of Arabia Petræa," but afterward
Herodias, the wife of his half brother,
Herod Philip. Aretas, indignant at the insult to his daughter, invaded the territory of
Herod, and defeated him with great loss. This defeat, according to the famous passage in Josephus, was attributed by many to the murder of John the Baptist, which had been committed by Antipas shortly before, under the influence of
Herodias. At a later time
Herodias urged him to go to florae to gain the title of king, cf.
Herodias voluntarily shared his "punishment, and he died in exile. Pilate took occasion from our Lord's residence in Galilee to send Jesus to
Herod Antipas,
Luke 23:6 ff.
Herod Philip I. , Philip,
Mark 6:17, was the son of
Herod the Great and Mariamne. He married
Herodias, the sister of Agrippa I.
Herod Philip II. was the son of
Herod the Great and Cleopatra. He married Salome, the daughter of
Herod Philip I. and
Herodias.
Herod Agrippa I. was the son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of
Herod the Great.
Herod Agrippa II. was the son of
Herod Agrippa I
Lucius (11) - Records of these interviews are annexed to Athanasius's epistle to Jovian, and appear to have been read by Sozomen, who summarizes the complaints urged against the great
Hero of orthodoxy
Communion - (a) In the Mysteries certain sacred foods and drinks were used to bring man into communion with the god; (b) on the other hand, many clubs held an annual or monthly supper, which generally took place in a temple, and was at any rate accompanied by religious ceremonies which were to constitute a communion between the members and the god or
Hero (very often the founder of the club) in whose honour the supper was given. In the former, particular food is supposed to bring the partaker into communion with the god physically (or rather hyper-physically), to transfer the essence and virtues of the god into the man and so to make him god (deify him); in the latter, it is the community of the meal which unites all partakers to one another and to the
Hero in the same sense as marriage or friendship unites distinct personalities. Farnell, ‘Religious and Social Aspects of the Cult of Ancestors and
Heroes,’ in HJ
Saul, King of Israel - Over the next few years Saul became more and more unstable, emotionally and mentally, while David became a popular Hero through his military victories
Moses - ...
The Old Testament describes Moses as a
Heroic leader of the people and as a man of God who brought the people into their special relationship with God. The story about Moses in the Old Testament, found in the extensive narratives from
Exodus 1:1 through
Deuteronomy 34:1 , can be described as a
Heroic saga. The young
Hero grew to maturity in the palace of the king who had sought to kill him. ...
The event at the burning bush while Moses worked as a shepherd introduced him to the critical character of his
Heroic work. (1) As the
Heroic leader of Israel, he would initiate events that would lead to Israel's Exodus from Egypt. ...
The negotiation narratives depict Moses, the
Hero, in one scene of failure after the other
Immanuel - Jehovah's salvation) typically represents Messiah as "the mighty (Hero) God," "the everlasting Father"; Isaiah's children represent Him as "Child" and "Son
Unknown God - We are told that the
Hero, in a time of plagueat Athens, took white and black sheep to the hill Areopagus and let them loose. 4) says that on the road from the Phaleric port to the city he had noticed ‘altars of gods called unknown, and of
Heroes’ (βωμοὶ δὲ θεῶν τε ὀνομαζομένων ἀγνώστων καὶ ἡρώων), which may quite well mean that he saw several altars bearing inscriptions similar to that mentioned by St
Jezebel - For Thyatira possessed a temple of Artemis and a temple of a local
Hero Tyrimnus taken over by Apollo, while outside the city was the cell of an Eastern Sibyl known as Sambethe (CIG
Deluge - American flood-legends); and not only the Hero of the story, Xisuthros, and his wife, but also his daughter and the pilot of the ship are carried away by the gods. ’ Gilgamesh of Uruk (Erech, Genesis 10:10 ), the Hero of the epic, contrived to visit his ancestor Ut-napishtim, who had received the gift of immortality
Reuben - (No great act, no great prophet, judge, or
Hero leader, springing from Reuben, appears on record (
1 Chronicles 5:1-2
Mary -
Acts 1:14 indicates that Mary was present, along with other
Hero figures of early Christianity, in the upper room scene in Jerusalem
Samson - Samson, the physically strong Nazarite, prepared the way for Samuel, the spiritual
Hero Nazarite, who consummated the deliverance that Samson began
Son of Man - "...
The title "the Son of man" implies at once Messiah's lowliness and His exaltation in His manifestations as THE REPRESENTATIVE MAN respectively at His first and second comings; His humiliation on the one hand (
Psalms 8:4-8;
Matthew 16:13;
Matthew 20:18;
Matthew 20:28) and His exaltation on the other hand, just "because He is the Son of man":
Daniel 7:13-14, Hebrew not Βen -ish or -Αdam , son of a
Hero or of man generically viewed, but Βen enosh , "Son of man," frail and abject, marking the connection of His humiliation and exaltation as man (
Philippians 2:5-11;
Matthew 26:64;
John 5:27)
Ancestor-Worship - But this existence of sacred places connected with the burial of a great tribal or national
Hero does not at all prove Ancestor-worship
Tree of Life - In the Gilgamesh Epic the
Hero obtained a scion from the ‘plant of life’ which healed his mortal illness (cf
Monotheism - Principal among the gods of the Canaanite pantheon were the great father figure, El; the younger
Hero, Baal; the adversary against order in the created land, Yam; the consort for Baal, Anat; and the ruler of Sheol, the place of the dead, Mot
Smyrna - She was like the Homeric
Hero whom nothing would Satisfy but αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν, καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων (Il
Melchizedek - The typical
Hero, first righteous and therefore self-governed and blessed with the tranquillizing consciousness of the presence of God, appears to the writer as an anticipation of Him in whom alone righteousness and peace are completely realized both in His own person and life and in His gifts to men
Giant - ]'>[4]; but this is not very surprising if a sarcophagus is really meant, as it was a compliment to a dead
Hero to give him a large tomb (
Deuteronomy 3:11 )
Areopagite, Areopagus - further, Ramsay truly remarks: ‘The Athenians were, in many respects, flippant; but their flippancy was combined with an intense pride in the national dignity and the historic glory of the city, which would have revolted at such an insult as that this stranger should harangue them about his foreign deities on the spot where the Athenian elders had judged the god Ares and the
Hero Orestes’ (St
Idolatry, - (
2 Kings 23:5 ) Beast-worship, as exemplified in the calves of Jeroboam, has already been alluded to of pure
Hero-worship among the Semitic races we find no trace
David - From all we know of Israel’s early
Heroes, a man was not raised to be a leader of the people unless or until he had first proved himself in some way to be the superior of his fellows. His father is in the habit of sending him to the Israelite camp with provisions for his three eldest brothers, who are among the warriors of the Israelite army; on one such occasion he finds the camp in consternation on account of the defiance of a Philistine
Hero, the giant Goliath. his name, ‘beloved’), who was specially chosen, the man after God’s own heart, the son of Jesse; the second presents him as the harpist, who was known in later ages as the ‘sweet psalmist of Israel’; while the third, which is probably the nearest to actual history, presents him as the warrior-hero, just as, in days to come, men would have pictured him whose whole reign from beginning to end was characterized by war. ...
David’s victory over Goliath had a twofold result; firstly, the
Heroic deed called forth the admiration, which soon became love, of the king’s son Jonathan; a covenant of friendship was made between the two, in token of which, and in ratification of which, Jonathan took off his apparel and armour and presented David with them. Taking the sword of his late antagonist, Goliath, which was wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod, he makes for Gath , hoping to find refuge on foreign soil; but he is recognized by the Philistines, and fearing that they would take vengeance on him for killing their
Hero Goliath, he simulates madness (cf. As a ruler, warrior, and organizer, he stands pre-eminent among the
Heroes of Israel
Barzillai - The old
Hero took his ancient tower, and his great estate, and his own future, and the future of his family all in his hand that day. The humility, also, of that Old Testament
Hero is already our New Testament humility in its depth and sweetness and beauty
Judas Iscariot - He reckoned, thought Paulus in more recent times, on the multitude rising and rescuing their
Hero from the rulers
Severus Sulpicius, an Historian - According to Gennadius he was a priest, but this has been questioned, and his tone towards the bishops and clergy, against whom he constantly inveighs as vain, luxurious, self-seeking, factious foes of Christianity and envious persecutors of his
Hero St
Elisha - In order to receive this boon he must be a witness of the translation of the mighty
Hero of Jehovah; and as Elijah is whirled away in the chariot of fire, his mantle falls upon his disciple, who immediately makes use of it in parting the waters of the Jordan
David - The "boaster in mischief, the mighty man" (the very term used of Saul,
2 Samuel 1:19), is not the herdsman Doeg, the ready tool of evil, but the master of
Hero might in animal courage, Saul. True
Hero might belongs to the godly alone, as
Psalms 18:25 saith, "with an upright
Hero (Hebrew for 'man') Thou wilt show Thyself upright
Joshua - The historical foundation for making the
Hero of Ephraim into the conqueror of all Canaan is absent. But only on the supposition that there was something to idealize is it possible to understand why a man, who belongs to a clan in Ephraim which is otherwise unknown, came to be set up as the
Hero under whom they won their foothold among the nations, and passed from wandering tribes into a people
Pseudepigrapha - (pssewd eh pih' gra fuh) Intertestamental literature not accepted into the Christian or Jewish canon of Scripture and often attributed to an ancient
Hero of faith. Since chapters 6,7 seem to refer to
Herod the Great, the book was probably written shortly after A
Paul - Paul first makes his appearance in
Acts 7:58, but it is not till
Acts 13:1 that he becomes the
Hero of the book, the story thenceforward being merely an account of his missionary travels and other fortunes. Paul, which most often have turned on the great sermons of their
Hero? Ramsay is of opinion that the first verse of the book implies that the writer intended to pen a third volume, similar in bulk to the Gospel and the Acts; and this would account for the narrative breaking off where it does, with a brief notice of the two years of imprisonment which followed the arrival at Rome. Weiss, in Das Urchristenthum, 1914, makes the suggestion that Acts was written for Roman Christians, who did not require to be informed of what had become of the
Hero; and Clemen actually brings in as an explanation Horace’s rule, in Ars Poetica, 185 f. -The chronology is an extremely difficult question, because the fixed points that seem to be obtained by the sacred history touching on profane history (Aretas,
2 Corinthians 11:32;
Herod, 1618528935_64; Claudius,
Acts 11:27-30, Acts 12:25; Felix and Festus,
Acts 24:27) fail, when closely scrutinized, to remain fixed
Messiah - In the first the Messiah is portrayed as a military conquering
Hero, ‘breaking in pieces the oppressor’s mace’; in the second, the sounds of discord cease, and He, sprung from Jesse’s stock, is the ruler of justice and peace in God’s ‘holy mountain’ of Zion, where even the powers of violence and injustice are turned into submission to a Divine authority. In the closing verses (14–20) of Zephaniah (obviously an addition belonging to the late-exilic or early post-exilic period) it is Jahweh who is Israel’s King in the midst of His people, their mighty
Hero who wards off the nation’s foes (
Haggai 2:15-19)
Joseph - Joseph is the principal
Hero of the later chapters of Genesis, which are composed mainly of extracts from three documents. Allowance may be made for the play of imagination in the long period that elapsed before the traditions were reduced to writing in their present form, and for the tendency to project the characteristics of a tribe backwards upon some legendary
Hero
Hosea - ” Title of the first book in the section of the Hebrew Bible called the Book of the Twelve, named after its prophetic
Hero
Mill - It displays, also, the vindictive contempt which suggested the punishment of Samson, the captive ruler of Israel, that the Philistines, with barbarous contumely, compelled him to perform the meanest service of a female slave; they sent him to grind in the prison,
Judges 16:21 , but not for himself alone; this, although extremely mortifying to the
Hero, had been more tolerable; they made him grinder for the prison, perhaps while the vilest malefactor was permitted to look on, and join in the mockery
Jonathan - Dutifully devoted to his father, whose constant companion he was (
1 Samuel 20:2;
1 Samuel 20:25), yet true to his bosom friend David, whose modest:, youthful beauty, and
Heroic bravery won his whole heart at their first meeting after Goliath's fall, against whom nevertheless Saul cherished such deadly spite. "Jonathan's soul was knit with David's," so that the latter testifies, "thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women"; like a Homeric
Hero, he gave his friend all his own arms, stripping himself (compare the Antitype,
Philippians 2:7-8):
1 Samuel 18:1-4;
2 Samuel 1:26
Jesus Christ, Name And Titles of - Uses of the term in the Greek Old Testament (LXX) and nonbiblical Greek suggest it carries a threefold connotation: (1) path-breaker (pioneer) who opens the way for others, hence, "guide" or "hero"; (2) the source or founder, hence "author, " "initiator, " "beginning"; and (3) the leader-ruler, hence, "captain, " "prince, " "king. He is thereafter honored as the founding
Hero
Assumption of Moses - For him Eleazar and his seven sons had been the true
Heroes, and not Judas and his brethren. They are succeeded by an insolent king not of the race of the priests (Herod), who will carry out secret massacres and rule for 34 years. Destructive and impious men (Sadducees) shall rule-treacherous, hypocritical, gluttons, oppressing the poor, and lawless. -The date of composition is clearly fixed by the words
in 6:7 ‘and he (Herod) shall beget children who succeeding him shall rule for shorter periods,’ As this is a prediction which was falsified by the event, for Antipas reigned forty-three years and Philip thirty-seven (while
Herod reigned thirty-four), we must postulate a date earlier than thirty-four years from
Herod’s death, i. His
Hero, Taxo, instead, of taking up arms, withdraws into a cave to die, with the words ‘Let us die rather than transgress. 48) seems to be aware of the new claims put forth for Moses’ Assumption, while explaining the Scripture statement of his death as a precaution against deification of the national
Hero: νέφους αἰφνίδιον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ στάντος, ἀφανίζεται κατά τινος φάραγγος
Genealogy - These belong to a well-recognized type, by which the relationship of nations, tribes, and families is explained as due to descent from a common ancestor, who is often an ‘eponymous
Hero,’ invented to account for the name of the nation. 7, 13), that
Herod the Great destroyed the genealogical records of the Jews in order to conceal his own origin, is at least an indication of the existence of such records and of the value attached to them
Arrest - ’]'>[1] and, though Jesus and the Eleven were defenceless, He was the popular
Hero, and, should an alarm be raised, the multitude would be aroused and would come to the rescue
Abraham - There is, however, no indication of
Hero-worship, as in the case of the more or less mythical ancestors of other peoples
Shepherds - AEneas pastured his oxen on Mount Ida, when Achilles seized them, and forced the Trojan
Hero to flee
Abraham - There is, however, no indication of
Hero-worship, as in the case of the more or less mythical ancestors of other peoples
Red Sea - " At the northern extremity of this salt waste is a small lake, sometimes called the Lake of
Heropolis; the lake is now Birket-et-Timsah "the lake of the crocodile," and is supposed to mark the ancient head of the gulf. It was anciently known as the "Fossa Regum" and the "canal of
Hero. The earliest navigation of the Red Sea (passing by the pre-historical Phoenicians) is mentioned by
Herodotus: --"Seostris (Rameses II. The
Heroopolite Gulf (Gulf of Suez) is of the chief interest; it was near to Goshen, it was the scene of the passage of the Red Sea, and it was the "tongue of the Egyptian Sea
Mystery - These divinities are always chthonic, as against the Olympian (national) divinities of the upper air; and their worship, maintained by guilds, was commonly associated with the rites of ancestor and
Hero—worship
Judges (1) - (4) The history of Jephthah is prefaced by
Judges 10:17-18 , which tells of the Ammonite oppression; Jephthah’s exploits are recounted in
Judges 11:1 to
Judges 12:7 ; a biographical note (
Judges 11:1-3 ) introduces the
Hero, and a long passage (
Judges 11:4-29 ) follows, describing how the conflict with the Ammonites arose; it is a question concerning the ownership of the lands between the Jabhok and the Arnon, which are claimed by the Ammonites, but which the Israelites maintain have been in their possession for three hundred years. 13) tells of the wonderful experiences of the parents of the
Hero prior to his birth; how an angel foretold that he was to be born, and that he was to be a Nazirite; and how the angel ascended in a flame from the altar on which Manoah had offered a sacrifice to Jahweh;
Judges 13:24-25 record his birth and hie growth to manhood, the spirit of Jahweh being upon him. ...
(1) It may be taken for granted that the exploits of tribal
Heroes would be commemorated by their descendants, and that the narrative of these exploits would be composed very soon, probably immediately in some cases, after the occurrences. It is therefore clear that there must have existed among the various Israelite tribes a body of traditional matter regarding the deeds of tribal
Heroes which originally floated about orally within the circumscribed area of each particular tribe
Ignatius - ]'>[1] 185) three bishops were usually placed-Hero, Cornelius, and Eros, of whom nothing was known but their names. authentic Epistles and also manufactured six additional letters-Mary of Cassobola (there is a Cilician town called Castabala, possibly the same as Cassobola) to Ignatius, Ignatius to Mary of Cassobola, to the Tarsians, to the Philippians, to the Antiochenes, and to
Hero the Deacon
Star (2) - ’]'>[5] A contrast may also be intended to be suggested between the spiritual Kingship of the Messiah, and the earthly kingship of secular rulers (like
Herod) who are instinctively hostile to the new force that has entered the world. Moreover, the ignorance displayed by
Herod and ‘all Jerusalem’ as to the nature of the star hardly suggests that its appearance would strike any but practised astrologers. ) traces the association of light in connexion with the Servant of Jahweh, who is represented as the Light of the World in Deutero-Isaiah (
Isaiah 49:6;
Isaiah 51:4) to the mythical representation of the World-Ruler as a solar
Hero in the old Saga
Apocrypha, New Testament - The Gospel of Nicodemus also includes a vivid account of Jesus' “Descent into Hell,” much like that of a Greek
Hero invading the underworld to defy its authorities or rescue its prisoners. A large number of legendary accounts of the journeys and
Heroics of New Testament apostles sought to parallel and supplement the Book of Acts
Constantinus i - As a
Hero of Byzantine history and ἐσαπόστολος , Constantine has become clothed in a mist of fiction
Hermas, Known as the Shepherd - His information about himself is contained in incidental allusions, not very easy to piece together; and the author of a fictitious narrative would not have conveyed so obscurely what he tells about his
Hero. He would probably also have made him a man of some eminence, holding high church office, whereas Hermas always speaks of the presbyters as if he were not one of them, and could have no motive for making his
Hero one engaged in trade unsuccessfully and not very honestly, and an elderly man with a termagant wife and ill brought-up children
Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch - 107), between Evodius and
Hero. Thenceforward we have had the longer and the shorter (or Vossian) recensions, the former containing the 7 Eusebian epistles in a longer text and also epistles of Mary of Castabala to Ignatius, with his reply, of Ignatius to the Tarsians, Philippians, Antiochenes, and
Hero, his successor; the Vossian comprising only the Eusebian letters and those in a shorter text
Devil - The word used by Hesiod for the blessed soul of a
Hero becomes with Plato an abstract influence sometimes beneficent and helpful, but emerges in the orators and tragedians as descriptive of baleful genii, who bring misfortune and even revel in cruelty
Sin - The national disasters which recur so frequently during the former of these periods are always attributed to this sin; while the return of the people, under the guidance of a great representative
Hero, is always marked by the blessings of peace and prosperity
Apocalyptic Literature - ( b ) Assuming the name of some worthy long since dead, the apocalyptist re-wrote the past in terms of prophecy in the name of some
Hero or seer of Hebrew history. 94 and 64: at all events, before the time of
Herod. It could not, therefore, have been written much prior to the time of
Herod, and, as the Temple is still standing, must have been written before a
Nazirite - To be a
Hero against his people’s enemies is the end of Samson’s consecration
Nazirite - To be a
Hero against his people’s enemies is the end of Samson’s consecration
David - ...
David's popularity consequent on this
Heroic exploit awakened Saul's jealousy (
1 Samuel 18:6-16 ), which he showed in various ways. The deep-laid plots of the enraged king, who could not fail to observe that David "prospered exceedingly," all proved futile, and only endeared the young
Hero the more to the people, and very specially to Jonathan, Saul's son, between whom and David a life-long warm friendship was formed. It was at this time that David, amid the harassment and perils of his position, cried, "Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem;" when three of his
Heroes broke through the lines of the Philistines and brought him the water for which he longed (
2 Samuel 23:13-17 ), but which he would not drink. Abner now sided with David, and sought to promote his advancement; but was treacherously put to death by Joab in revenge for his having slain his brother Asahel at Gibeon (3:22-39). Shortly after this Ish-bosheth was also treacherously put to death by two Canaanites of Beeroth; and there being now no rival, David was anointed king over all Israel (4:1-12). Uriah, whom he had foully wronged, an officer of the Gibborim, the corps of
Heros (23:39), was, by his order, "set in the front of the hottest battle" at the siege of Rabbah, in order that he might be put to death
Idol - ...
(10) timahuh "similitude," "form "(
Deuteronomy 4:12-19, where Moses forbids successively the several forms of Gentile idolatry: ancestor worship, as that of Terah (
Joshua 24:2), Laban (
Genesis 31:19;
Genesis 31:30;
Genesis 31:32), and Jacob's household (
Genesis 35:2-4), to guard against which Moses' sepulchre was hidden;
Hero worship and relic worship (
Judges 8:27;
Jeremiah 44:17-18,;
2 Kings 18:4); nature worship, whether of the lower animals as in Egypt, or of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, and stars, as among the Persians). sacrifice with the harlots" (so Hebrew) (Herodotus i. The
Heroic resistance of the Maccabees, besides their contact with the Persians who rejected images, and especially the erection of synagogues and the reading the law every sabbath in them, gave them the abhorrence of idols which now characterizes them
Sibylline Oracles - An odd story like that preserved by Petronius
Thecla - Thecla (1) the Heroine of a romantic story which from a very early date has had a strong hold on the imagination of the church and which though under the form in which it is now extant it can only be received as a fiction has enough appearance of a foundation in fact to warrant us in treating of her as a real person. The Asian presbyter whom Tertullian makes known to us casting about for materials for a story in exaltation of virginity would naturally choose for his Hero St. The tradition which we have supposed current in the church of a Christian who incurred the peril of martyrdom for virginity and ended her days as an anchorite near Seleucia would supply his Heroine and leading incidents
James And John, the Sons of Zebedee - Schwartz (Ueber den Tod der Söhne Zebedaei), who finds in the prediction assigned to Jesus in
Acts 10:39 proof that both sons of Zebedee must have been killed by
Herod on the same day! The account in Acts (
Acts 12:1 ff. 27: ‘Sancti Johannis Baptistae, et Jacobi Apostoli, quem
Herodes occidit,’ which may possibly point the same way, as June 24 is the day of commemoration of the Baptist. ...
On the whole, the least unsatisfactory explanation of the evidence, with all its difficulties and complexities, is the hypothesis that the Apostle did spend some years of his later life in Ephesus, where he became the
Hero of many traditions which belonged of right to another or to others
Proverbs - Flores: ‘Vulgare proverbium est, quod nunia familiaritas parit contemptum’); and the saying of the witty Frenchman that ‘no man is a
Hero to his valet de chambre. 38 the Galilaeans rose against
Herod, and drowned his adherents in the Lake (Josephus Ant. There were Roman soldiers and
Herod’s mercenaries, the latter including Thracians, Germans, and Galatians (Josephus Ant. King
Herod the Great had built a magnificent theatre at Jerusalem and an equally magnificent amphitheatre, and had instituted athletic contests every four years after the pattern of the Greek games
Aristion (Aristo) - ), in writing of the death and obsequies of Ardasches, king and national
Hero of Armenia, transcribes first the quotation of Eusebius from Aristo of Pella regarding Hadrian’s devastation of Jerusalem, to explain how Aristo came to be attached to his (Ardasches’) person as secretary; for Ardasches had been sent by Hadrian into Persia
Ideas (Leading) - To enforce the lesson, our Lord selected as the
Hero of His parable a man belonging to a race which was hated and despised by the Jews
Noah - The Cherokee Indians believe a dog incited one family to build a boat wherein they were saved from the flood which destroyed all people. Izdubar (Nimrod according to Smith) the
Hero, a sage, asks Sisit or Hasisadra (Greek Xisuthrus), an immortal, son of Ubaratutu, how he became so; in reply he narrates the story of the flood, and assigns his own piety as the cause of his translation. The Bible narrative unites details scattered up and down in various traditions but nowhere else combined:...
(1) The divine warning in the Babylonian, Hindu, and Cherokee accounts
Gnosticism - We can see here what ground some schools could have for making
Heroes of the characters represented as wicked in the OT. They made Cain their first
Hero; and, regarding the God of the Jews as an evil being, and the Scriptures as, in consequence, a perversion of truth, honoured all infamous characters from Cain to Iscariot, who alone of the apostles had the secret of true knowledge
Hellenism - -The old family-cults and State-cult were continued as a matter of course; but there was a notable reduction of local cults, the greater gods, so to speak, swallowing up the minor
Heroes. On the other hand, a tendency towards deification and
Hero-worship was always introducing new objects of worship
Jeremiah - Jehoiakim was a typical Eastern despot, self-willed, luxurious, unprincipled, oppressive towards his own people, treacherous and incompetent in foreign policy. The author became, unconsciously, the
Hero of his work. 626 found him a diffident and reluctant young man, not wanting in devotion, but shrinking from publicity, and with no natural drawing towards the prophetic career; yet he is ‘set over the nations, to pluck up and to break down, and to build and to plant’! Already there begins the struggle between the implanted word of Jehovah and the nature of the man, on which turns Jeremiah’s inner history and the development of his
Heroic character, all things considered, the noblest in the OT
Job - ), stating the problem, ‘the undeserved suffering of a good man,’ giving a partial solution, and bringing on the scene the
Hero’s three friends; short headings (
Job 3:1 ,
Job 4:1 etc. The interest of the Book of Job is concentrated mainly on the central figure, the
Hero
Ascension (2) - The motives, moreover, which prompted the Senate to give each successive emperor a place among the gods, or the Hindu devotee to regard his
Hero as divine, are easy to trace: in the former instance political; in the latter, religious indeed, but too naïve for the Jew, who had no natural tendency to deify—such a tendency has not been proved, it is incompatible with the exclusive and stubborn monotheism of the race
Ascension of Isaiah - Paul asks ‘What concord hath Christ with Beliar?’
Hero either meaning of Beliar is possible
Divinity of Christ - He came to them not as a prophet, although He had much in common with the prophets; nor as a culture-hero, the offspring of spiritual imagination; but as an inner force of life absolutely unique; an inner experience in which God entered into their hearts in a manner heretofore unparalleled, being borne in on them rather than presented to their imitation, leavening them practically with Himself, and demonstratively in such a way that henceforth to their very existence in God, He, the Revealer, must belong
Eusebius (60), Bishop of Nicomedia - The career of Eusebius of Nicomedia during the remaining ten years of his life is so closely intertwined with the romantic sufferings of Athanasius that it is difficult to indicate the part he took in the persecution of Athanasius without reproducing the story of this great
Hero of the Catholic faith
Perfection (of Jesus) - Among them have been some of the greatest and sweetest of the children of men—gentle souls with the grace of sympathy and self-forgetfulness; generous and magnanimous souls like David, whose inspirations have been to men an abiding memorial of the beauty of chivalry;
Heroes of faith like Paul and Luther, who change the current of human life. ’ That may be true of the ordinary man, or even of national
Heroes and saints, whose character ever seems strange and partially distasteful or even unintelligible to men of other races and times; it is conspicuously untrue of Jesus. The zealot and the publican met in the inner circle of His disciples: Mary of Magdala, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna, the wife of
Herod’s steward, united to minister to Him of their substance. He made the Samaritan the
Hero of His story of neighbourliness; He praised the faith of the Roman centurion; He pointed to God’s care of Naaman the Syrian captain, and the widow of Zarephath