Monthly Archives: August 2009
Hendiadys in the Old Testament
Hendiadys, which is a Greek expression, is a rhetorical device in which a complex idea is expressed by two substantives joined by a conjunction instead of by a substantive qualified by an adjective (The Free Dictionary). In The Scriptures we can find the hendiadys in a few places. The first appearance is in Genesis 23:4, [...]
Isaiah 8:1-4 – the name of Isaiah son tell us the destiny of the northern kingdom
When a name is given in The Scriptures it is not just a way to identify a person, it’s also in many cases the story of the life of the figure. Every month I intend to give a biblical name and the meaning of it, as you saw in the previous blog about Noah. Maher [...]
Noah – One Name, Five Interpretations
I don’t think that there are a lot of persons in the world, whom are not familiar with Noah’s character. Noah was the man who saved the fluid, after building the famous ark; He was the first man that had a covenant with The Lord; He was definitely the father of agriculture. The meaning of [...]
Parallelism in The Scriptures – same idea different words- part 2
If we need to choose the best parallelism in The Scriptures, it’s a very hard work to make- there are so many of them, beautiful and lovely to the eye and to the ear. I would like to show you today some of them. Firstly, let’s go to genesis 9. the days are after the [...]
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