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• LORD of Hosts

  The LORD of Hosts is an Old Testament title for God that renders the Hebrew Yahweh Tseba'ot. Meaning "LORD of armies (hosts)," it expresses God's sovereignty over Israel and over all the hosts of heaven.

• Genesis 23

  Genesis 23 recounts the death of Sarah at the age of 127 in Hebron and Abraham's purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred shekels of silver, where he then buried Sarah.

• 2 Samuel 5

  A chapter of 2 Samuel in which David is anointed king over all Israel at Hebron, captures Jerusalem from the Jebusites and makes it the City of David, and defeats the Philistines twice.

• Day-Age Theory

  The day-age theory is an interpretation of creation that reads each "day" (Hebrew yom) of Genesis 1 not as a twenty-four-hour period but as a long age of indeterminate length. It is one of the principal forms of old-earth creationism.

• Soul (Bible)

  In the Bible, "soul" translates the Hebrew nephesh and the Greek psyche, words that encompass breath, life, a living being, and the self. Interpretations differ on the constituent elements of the human person and on the state after death.

• Christ

  Christ is the English rendering of the Greek Christos, meaning "anointed one," and corresponds to the Hebrew Messiah. The New Testament applies this title to Jesus of Nazareth.

• Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of Zin

  In the Old Testament of the New Korean Revised Version, "Sin gwangya" (Wilderness of Sin) is the name of a wilderness. In the original Hebrew, however, the name refers to two distinct places: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan.

• Chileab

  Chileab was David's second son, born to Abigail at Hebron. He appears in 2 Samuel 3:3, which records only his name. In the parallel list in 1 Chronicles 3:1, the name "Daniel" appears in the same position.

• Cave of Machpelah

  The Cave of Machpelah was the cave in a field before Mamre, near Hebron, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite in order to bury his wife Sarah. It became the burial place of the patriarchs and their wives.

• Ram's Horn Trumpet

  The ram's horn trumpet, called the shofar in Hebrew, is a trumpet made from the horn of a ram. It is best known from the account of the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which priests blew it before the Ark of the Covenant.

• Tetragrammaton

  The Tetragrammaton (Korean *sinseong samunja*, "sacred four letters") is the term for the four Hebrew consonants (יהוה, YHWH) that spell the proper name of God in the Old Testament. The New Korean Revised Version renders this name as "Yeohowa" (Jehovah).

• Salem

  Salem is the name of the city ruled by Melchizedek in Genesis 14. The Hebrew name shares a root with the word for "peace," and Jewish and Christian tradition generally regards it as an ancient name for Jerusalem.

• Onyx

  Onyx (Korean homano) is the name of a precious stone used in the New Korean Revised Version to translate the Hebrew word shoham. It first appears as a stone found in the land of Havilah near Eden, and it was used on the high priest's ephod as the stone engraved with the names of the sons of Israel.

• Ecclesiastes 1:2

  Ecclesiastes 1:2 is the opening thematic verse of Ecclesiastes, in which the Preacher declares, "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." It is widely cited as a classic statement of the transience of life. Interpretations vary regarding the meaning of the Hebrew word rendered "vanity" and the message of Ecclesiastes as a whole.

• Isaiah 7:14

  A prophecy that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and call his name Immanuel. The Gospel of Matthew cites the verse as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus, and a long-standing translation debate surrounds whether the Hebrew word almah should be rendered "virgin" or "young woman."

• Melchizedek

  Melchizedek is the king of Salem and "priest of the most high God" who appears in Genesis 14. He blessed Abraham and received a tithe from him, and the New Testament book of Hebrews presents him as a figure who illuminates the priesthood of Jesus Christ.

• Jochebed

  Jochebed was the wife of Amram of the tribe of Levi and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. She is known for hiding the infant Moses when Pharaoh ordered that Hebrew baby boys be killed and then placing him in a basket of bulrushes on the Nile.

• Jeremiah 31:34

  The final verse of the new covenant prophecy (Jeremiah 31:31-34), which promises that all the people will know the LORD and that their sins will be forgiven and remembered no more. Because it is quoted in the Epistle to the Hebrews, it is frequently cited in discussions of the forgiveness of sins and the new covenant, and it also figures in debates over baptism.

• Job 13:15

  In this verse Job declares that, even at the risk of death, he will defend his ways before God. Because of a variant reading in the Hebrew text, translations divide between "I have no hope" and "I will trust in him," and the verse is frequently discussed.

• Lampstand

  The lampstand was a furnishing of pure gold that stood in the Holy Place of the tabernacle and the temple. It had a single central shaft with six branches and held seven lamps. In Hebrew it is called the menorah.