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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
the Fourth Week of Advent
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(the representative in various passages in the A.V. of the Hebrews words . בְּהֵמָה, behemah´, a large quadruped in general, usually "beast", (See BEHEMOTH); in Numbers 20:4, and Psalms 78:48, בְּעַיר, beï r´, grazing animals, elsewhere "beast;" so the Gr. βοσκήματα, as beingfd, 2 Maccabees 12:11, or θρέμματα , from being reared, John 4:12; most frequently and characteristically מַקְנֶה, mikneh´, apossession, as sometimes rendered-from the fact that Oriental wealth ["substance," Job 1:3; Job 1:10] largely consisted in this kind of property; like the Gr. κτήνη, as being possessed, 1 Maccabees 12:23; also idiomatically, שֶׂה, seh, Genesis 30:32; Isaiah 7:25; Isaiah 43:23; Copyright Statement
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