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theophoric — adj. bearing the name of a god. * * * theophoric, ous, physical see theo … Useful english dictionary
Theophoric name — See technical note on viewing special characters. A theophoric name (Greek: bearing a deity ) embeds the name of a god, both invoking and displaying the protection of that deity. Instances of theophoric names embedding Apollo, will be familiar… … Wikipedia
theophoric — [θɪə fɒrɪk] (also theophorous) adjective bearing the name of a god … English new terms dictionary
theophoric — the·o·phor·ic … English syllables
List of Arabic theophoric names — This is a list of Arabic theophoric names.Islamic names Abdul namesThe following names are derived from the word Abd (= slave or servant ) added to a name of Allah or one of His Glorious attributes. In Classical Arabic, any of these names can be… … Wikipedia
NAMES — In the Bible Biblical proper names, together with proper names in Old South Arabic, Canaanite (East or Proto Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Phoenician), Old Aramaic, Akkadian, and – with some reservations – Old Egyptian, comprise one division of the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Yahweh — For information about Yahweh, see God in Abrahamic religions, which provides useful links. Yahweh is an English transliteration of he. יַהְוֶה a 19th century proposed punctuation of he. יהוה (the Tetragrammaton), which is the distinctive personal … Wikipedia
Tetragrammaton — For other uses, see Tetragrammaton (disambiguation). YHWH redirects here. For discussion of the God of Israel as described in the Hebrew Bible, and the Yahweh of ancient Semitic religion, see Yahweh. The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known… … Wikipedia
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament — Cartel at the Church of the Gesù, Rome with the Latin inscription from Philippians 2:10: at the name of Jesus every knee should bow . Two names and a variety of titles are used to refer to Jesus in the New Testa … Wikipedia
Melchizedek — For other uses, see Melchizedek (disambiguation). Melchizedek Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek by Dieric Bouts the Elder, 1464–67 Priest, King of Salem … Wikipedia
