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41 relations: Bezer, Biblical criticism, Book of Joshua, Book of Judges, Books of Kings, Books of Samuel, Canaan, Encyclopaedia Biblica, Eponym, Galilee, Gershonites, Gilead, Hebrew Bible, Heshbon, Israel Finkelstein, Israelites, Jazer, Joshua, Kartah, Kedemoth, Kohathites, Levi, Levite, Levitical city, List of minor biblical places, Mahanaim, Merari, Metaphor, Nahalal, Origin myth, Peake's Commentary on the Bible, Postdiction, Priestly Code, Ramoth-Gilead, Rimmon, Simply connected space, Tel Yokneam, Textual criticism, Tribe of Gad, Tribe of Reuben, Tribe of Zebulun.
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Bezer
Bezer was a Levitical city in the desert plateau east of the Jordan, and of Heshbon, originally a resting place for travelers.
Biblical criticism
Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural.
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Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua (סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ; Ιησούς τουΝαυή; Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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Book of Judges
The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Books of Kings
The Book of Kings (Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Books of Samuel
The Book of Samuel (Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament.
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Canaan
Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.
Encyclopaedia Biblica
Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible (1899), edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible.
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Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.
Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
Gershonites
The Gershonites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. Merarites and Gershonites are Levites.
Gilead
Gilead or Gilad (جلعاد, Ǧalʻād, גִּלְעָד Gilʿāḏ, Jalaad) is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan. Merarites and Gilead are book of Numbers people.
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
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Heshbon
Heshbon (also Hesebon, Esebon, Esbous, Esbus; حشبون, Esebus, חשבון Ḥešbōn, Ἐσεβών, Ἐσσεβών, Ἐσβούτα, Ἐσβούς, Ἔσβους, Ἔξβους) were at least two different ancient towns located east of the Jordan River in what is now the Kingdom of Jordan, historically within the territories of ancient Ammon.
Israel Finkelstein
Israel Finkelstein (ישראל פינקלשטיין; born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.
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Israelites
The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
Jazer
Jazer (or Jaazer) was a city east of the Jordan River, in or near Gilead, inhabited by the Amorites. Merarites and Jazer are Gilead.
Joshua
Joshua, also known as Yehoshua (Yəhōšuaʿ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšuaʿ, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jeshoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible. Merarites and Joshua are book of Numbers people.
Kartah
Kartah was a Levitical city in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun assigned, according to the Hebrew Bible, to the Levites of the family of Merari.
Kedemoth
Kedemoth (קְדֵמוֹת) was a city of Reuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari.
Kohathites
The Kohathites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times, the other three being the Gershonites, the Merarites, and the Aaronites (more commonly known as Kohanim). Merarites and Kohathites are book of Numbers people and Levites.
Levi
Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
Levite
Levites (Lǝvīyyīm) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. Merarites and Levite are book of Numbers people and Levites.
Levitical city
In the Hebrew Bible, the Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial land when the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Merarites and Levitical city are Levites.
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List of minor biblical places
This is a list of places mentioned in the Bible, which do not have their own Wikipedia articles.
See Merarites and List of minor biblical places
Mahanaim
Mahanaim (מַחֲנַיִם Maḥănayīm, "camps") is a place mentioned a number of times by the Bible said to be near Jabbok, in the same general area as Jabesh-gilead, beyond the Jordan River.
Merari
According to the Torah, Merari (Hebrew: מְרָרִי, Mərārī) was one of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Merarites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. Merarites and Merari are book of Numbers people and Levites.
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Nahalal
Nahalal (נַהֲלָל) is a moshav in northern Israel.
Origin myth
An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.
Peake's Commentary on the Bible
Peake's Commentary on the Bible is a one-volume commentary on the Bible, first published in 1919.
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Postdiction
Postdiction involves explanation after the fact.
Priestly Code
The Priestly Code (in Hebrew Torat Kohanim, תורת כהנים) is the name given, by academia, to the body of laws expressed in the Torah which do not form part of the Holiness Code, the Covenant Code, the Ritual Decalogue, or the Ethical Decalogue.
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Ramoth-Gilead
Ramoth-Gilead (Rāmōṯ Gilʿāḏ, meaning "Heights of Gilead"), was a Levitical city and city of refuge east of the Jordan River in the Hebrew Bible, also called "Ramoth in Gilead" or "Ramoth Galaad" in the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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Rimmon
Rimmon or Rimon (Rīmmōn) is a Hebrew word meaning 'pomegranate'.
Simply connected space
In topology, a topological space is called simply connected (or 1-connected, or 1-simply connected) if it is path-connected and every path between two points can be continuously transformed into any other such path while preserving the two endpoints in question.
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Tel Yokneam
Tel Yokneam, also spelled Yoqne'am or Jokneam (תֵּל יָקְנְעָם), is an archaeological site located in the northern part of the modern city of Yokneam Illit, Israel.
Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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Tribe of Gad
According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. Merarites and Tribe of Gad are Gilead.
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Tribe of Reuben
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben was one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Tribe of Zebulun
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Zebulun (alternatively rendered as Zabulon, Zabulin, Zabulun, Zebulon) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
See Merarites and Tribe of Zebulun
See also
Book of Numbers people
- Agag
- Ahihud (biblical figure)
- Ahira
- Ammiel
- Ammihud
- Anak
- Asriel
- Balaam
- Balak
- Caleb
- Cozbi
- Dathan
- Daughters of Zelophehad
- Eldad and Medad
- Eliab
- Gatherer (Bible)
- Gershon
- Gilead
- Joshua
- Kemuel
- Kohathites
- Korah
- Levite
- Merari
- Merarites
- Moses
- Nadab and Abihu
- Nahshon
- Nehemiah
- Nethaneel
- Og
- Phinehas
- The Twelve Spies
- Tirzah (name)
- Zimri (prince)
References
Also known as Merarite.