GERIZIM

Meaning of GERIZIM in English

cutters, hatchets

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GERIZIM — (cutters), a limestone mountain, 2855 feet high (800 feet above the valley at its foot), in Ephraim, near Shechem (Sychar), …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
GERIZIM, MOUNT — Arabic Jabal At-tur, Hebrew Har Gerizim, mountain in Samaria, central Palestine, just south of Nabulus and the site of biblical …
Britannica English vocabulary
SAMARITAN — Member of a now nearly extinct Jewish community. Calling themselves Bene-Yisrael ("Children of Israel"), or Shamerim ("Observant Ones"), they claim …
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SAMARITAN — I. səˈmarət ə n, -mer-, -rətən, -rəd.ən noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin samaritanus, from samaritanus …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: ANTHROPOLOGY-AND-ARCHAEOLOGY — ARCHAEOLOGY Prevailing political turmoil continued to close off the possibility for archaeological fieldwork in many parts of the Old World …
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SAMARITAN — member of a community of Jews, now nearly extinct, that claims to be related by blood to those Jews of …
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PILATE, PONTIUS — died AD 36 Roman prefect (governor) of Judaea (AD 2636) under the emperor Tiberius; he presided at the trial of …
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NABULUS — also spelled Nablus, biblical Hebrew Shechem, or Sichem, Greek Neapolis, city of central Palestine, the largest community of the West …
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SAMARITAN — n. Member of a now nearly extinct Jewish community. Calling themselves Bene-Yisrael ("Children of Israel"), or Shamerim ("Observant Ones"), they …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SHECHEM — (back or shoulder). â An important city in central Palestine, in the valley between mounts Ebal and Gerizim, 34 miles …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
SAMARITANS — Strictly speaking, a Samaritan would be an inhabitant of the city of Samaria, but the term was applied to all …
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SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH — a recension of the commonly received Hebrew text of the Mosaic law, in use among the Samaritans, and written in …
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MOUNT, MOUNTAIN — The Hebrew word har, like the English "mountain." is employed for both single eminences more or less isolated, such as …
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MOREH — (teacher). â The plain or plains (or, as it should rather be rendered, the oak or oaks) of Moreh. The …
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JACOBS WELL — a deep spring in the vicinity of Shechem (called Sychar in Christ's time and Nablus at the present day). It …
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GERZITES — (dwellers in the desert), The, a tribe who with the Geshurites and the Amalekites occupied the land between the south …
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EBAL, MOUNT — a mount in the promised land, on which the Israelites were to "put" the curse which should fall upon them …
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DEUTERONOMY — -which means "the repetition of the law"-consists chiefly of three discourses delivered by Moses shortly before his death. Subjoined to …
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