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• Shigionoth

  Shigionoth is a Hebrew musical term in the superscription of Habakkuk 3:1. It is thought to indicate the character or style of song that Habakkuk's prayer represents. Its precise meaning is unknown.

• Higgaion

  Higgaion is a Hebrew word that appears together with "Selah" in Psalm 9:16. It is thought to be either a musical term or a word indicating meditation, but its precise meaning is uncertain.

• Sacred Pillar

  A sacred pillar (Hebrew matstsebah) was a standing stone erected in ancient Canaan to worship or commemorate a deity. The Old Testament commands Israel not to erect pillars associated with pagan worship and to break them down.

• Branch (Messianic Title)

  "Branch" translates the Hebrew word tsemach, which the Old Testament prophets used as a title for a righteous ruler who would arise from the line of David. Christianity has read it as a messianic prophecy of Jesus Christ.

• Abaddon

  Abaddon is a Hebrew word meaning "destruction" or "place of destruction." In the Old Testament it appears alongside Sheol as a designation for the realm of the dead, and in Revelation 9:11 it is the name of the angel of the bottomless pit.

• El Olam

  El Olam is a Hebrew title meaning "the Everlasting God." Abraham used it when he called on God at Beersheba in Genesis 21:33, and it expresses the eternity of God.

• Shelomith

  Shelomith is a Hebrew name found in the Old Testament. Several different people who bore this name are recorded in Leviticus, Chronicles, and Ezra. The name was used for both men and women.

• Jerimoth

  Jerimoth is a Hebrew name found in the Old Testament books of Chronicles. This article focuses mainly on "Jerimoth the son of David" (2 Chronicles 11:18), who is recorded as the father-in-law of King Rehoboam, and also lists other individuals of the same name.

• Merodach

  Merodach is the Hebrew rendering of Marduk, the chief god of ancient Babylon. It appears in Jeremiah 50:2 in a prophecy of Babylon's fall and also forms part of the names of Babylonian kings.

• Miktam

  Miktam is a Hebrew term found in the superscriptions of six psalms: Psalm 16 and Psalms 56–60. It appears to designate a type or use of psalm, but its precise meaning remains unknown.

• Homer

  The homer is a Hebrew unit of dry measure for grain mentioned in the Old Testament. Equal to ten ephahs, it is the largest dry measure and equals one hundred omers. The book of Ezekiel treats it as the same quantity as the cor.

• Jeshimon

  Jeshimon is a Hebrew word meaning "wasteland." In 1 Samuel it is used as a place name for the wilderness region of southern Judah where David hid while fleeing from Saul.

• Belial

  Belial is a Hebrew word in the Old Testament meaning "worthlessness" or "wickedness," used mainly in the expression "son (or man) of Belial" to describe a base or wicked person. In the New Testament it appears once, in 2 Corinthians 6:15, as a name for the power of evil opposed to Christ, that is, Satan.

• Midrash

  Midrash, from a Hebrew verb meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," refers both to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted the biblical text and to the body of literature that collects those interpretations.

• Malchijah

  Malchijah is a Hebrew name that appears in 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Jeremiah in the Old Testament and was borne by several different people. Nehemiah 3 names three men called Malchijah who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.

• Hosanna

  "Hosanna" is a transliteration of a Hebrew expression meaning "save now." It derives from Psalm 118 and is recorded in the Gospels as the acclamation the crowds shouted when Jesus entered Jerusalem.

• Satan

  Satan is the name the Bible gives to an evil spiritual being who opposes and accuses God and His people. The Hebrew word means "adversary," and the New Testament uses it interchangeably with "the devil."

• Septuagint

  The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into ancient Greek, produced in Alexandria, Egypt, beginning around the third century BC. New Testament writers frequently followed it when quoting the Old Testament, and the early church received and used it as its Old Testament.

• El Shaddai

  El Shaddai is one of the Hebrew names for God in the Old Testament. The New Korean Revised Version renders it "Almighty God," and it appears chiefly in the covenant promises and blessings given to the patriarchs.

• Midrash

  Midrash is a term derived from a Hebrew word meaning "to seek" or "to inquire." In the Old Testament it appears in the titles of written records. It later came to refer to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted Scripture and to the literature that collects their interpretations.