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• Ark of Bulrushes

  [Bible]

  The ark of bulrushes is the basket in which, according to Exodus 2, the mother of Moses placed her infant son and set him among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. Pharaoh's daughter discovered the basket, and Moses' life was spared.

• Conscience

  [Bible]

  Conscience is a biblical term for the inner awareness by which a person reflects on and knows the rightness or wrongness of his or her own conduct. It appears chiefly in the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament.

• Habakkuk 3:19

  [Bible Verses]

  Habakkuk 3:19 is the final verse of the Book of Habakkuk. It is a confession of trust that, even when everything is lost, the LORD is "my strength" who makes the speaker walk upon high places. The verse is often cited as an expression of joy in the midst of suffering.

• Hegesippus

  [People]

  Hegesippus was a second-century Christian writer who compiled the Memoirs, a collection of early church traditions. The original work is lost and survives only in fragments quoted in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History.

• Hebrew Servant

  [Bible]

  In Old Testament law, a Hebrew servant was an Israelite who had been sold into the service of a fellow Israelite because of debt or poverty. The law required that, after six years of service, such a servant go free in the seventh year without payment.

• Paleo-Hebrew Script

  [Bible]

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• Writings (Hebrew Bible)

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  The Writings are the third of the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), following the Law and the Prophets. Called Ketuvim ("things written") in Hebrew, the division comprises eleven books by Jewish reckoning, including Psalms, Job, and Proverbs.

• Parallelism

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  Parallelism is the characteristic mode of expression in Hebrew poetry, in which the thought of one line is paired with a following line that restates it, contrasts with it, or adds to it. It appears widely in the poetry of the Old Testament, including Psalms and Proverbs, and in the prophetic books.

• Jewish Calendar

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  The Jewish calendar is the calendar used by ancient Israel and the Jewish people. It reckons months by the waxing and waning of the moon and adjusts the year to keep pace with the seasons. All the feast dates of the Old Testament follow this calendar.

• Shalom

  [Bible]

  Shalom is a Hebrew word meaning "wholeness, well-being, peace." In the Old Testament it is used widely as a greeting, in blessings, and to describe the state of wholeness that God gives. The New Testament carries the concept forward through the Greek word eirēnē.

• Hokmah

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  Hokmah is the Hebrew word for "wisdom." In the Old Testament it covers a wide range of meanings, from a craftsman's skill to the wisdom of a life lived in the fear of God. It is a central concept of the wisdom literature, including Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes.

• Latter Prophets

  [Bible]

  The Latter Prophets (Hebrew *Nevi'im Aharonim*) are the second half of the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second division of the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, books compiled chiefly from the messages delivered by the prophets.

• Emet

  [Bible]

  Emet (אֱמֶת) is a Hebrew word meaning "firmness, faithfulness, truthfulness, truth." In the Old Testament it describes the character and word of God as well as human honesty. It is frequently paired with hesed.

• Samaritan Pentateuch

  [Bible]

  The Samaritan Pentateuch is the Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses that the Samaritan community has preserved from generation to generation. It agrees with the Masoretic Text of Judaism in most respects but differs in certain places, notably in passages that exalt Mount Gerizim as the place of worship.

• Shiphrah and Puah

  [People]

  Shiphrah and Puah were two Hebrew midwives named in Exodus 1. Because they feared God, they refused to obey the Egyptian king's command to kill Hebrew baby boys.

• Shiphrah

  [People]

  Shiphrah is one of the two Hebrew midwives named in Exodus 1. Together with Puah, she refused to obey the king of Egypt's order to kill Hebrew baby boys and instead let the children live.

• Masoretic Text

  [Bible]

  The Masoretic Text is the standard text of the Hebrew Old Testament, transmitted by medieval Jewish scholars (the Masoretes) who added vowel points and annotations. Most Old Testament translations today use it as their base text.

• Tanakh

  [Bible]

  Tanakh is the name Judaism uses for the Hebrew Bible. The word is an acronym formed from the Law (Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). Its contents are the same as the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament, but it counts them as twenty-four books and arranges them in a different order.

• Midwife

  [Bible]

  A midwife is a woman who assists another woman in childbirth. In the Bible, midwives appear in Genesis and Exodus. They are best known through the account of Shiphrah and Puah, who defied Pharaoh's order and saved the lives of Hebrew baby boys.

• Joel 2:32

  [Bible Verses]

  Joel 2:32 promises that on the day of the LORD "whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered." Quoted in Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:21) and in Romans 10:13, it is frequently cited as a text on the universal offer of salvation and on the lordship of Jesus.