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Buki (other)
Buki may refer to: * Buki (musical instrument), a brass instrument from Georgia * Be (Cyrillic), formerly named ''Buki'', a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet See also * Bukki, a Biblical character * Buke (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buki (musical Instrument)
A buki is a brass instrument A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin a ... from Svaneti (north-west part of Georgia). The length of the horn is and the diameter of a blowing piece is . See also * Nafir References {{Musical instruments of Georgia (country) Musical instruments of Georgia (country) Brass instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be (Cyrillic)
Be (Б italics: ''Б '') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive , like the English pronunciation of in "ball". It should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter Ve (В в), which is shaped like Latin capital letter B but represents the voiced labiodental fricative . The Cyrillic letter Б (Be) is romanized using the Latin letter . History The Cyrillic letters Be and Ve (В в) were both derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β β). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet the name of the letter Be was (''buky/''), meaning "letter". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the letter Be had no numeric value because the letter Ve inherited the Greek letter Beta's numeric value. Form The Russian small letter (be) is similar (but not identical) in shape to the digit 6. Its lowercase form also somewhat resembles a lowercase letter B ("b"), the letter to which it corresponds in the Latin alphabet. After all, the lowerca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukki
Bukki ( ''Buqqi'', "proved") may have been an early High Priest of Israel. Another Bukki is mentioned in Numbers as a leader in the Tribe of Dan. Bukki is mentioned in the books 1 Chronicles (6:4) and Ezra (7:4) as the son of the High Priest Abishua, a priest fifth in descent in the line of Eleazar. In the Apocrypha (2 Esdras 1:2), his name is listed as Borith and in 1 Esdras 8:2, he is called Boccas. According to Josephus (''Antiquities of the Jews'' 5.10.5; 8.1.3) and other extrabiblical sources, he succeeded his father as High Priest. He is contemporarily identified with the Samaritan High Priest The Samaritan High Priest is the high priest (''kohen gadol'') of the remaining Samaritan community in the Levant. According to Samaritan tradition, the office has existed continuously since the time of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and has been ... Bakhi. 2nd Samaritan High Priest and Sashai the 1st Samaritan High Priest was possibly his brother Etymology Personal name shortened fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |