List Of Biblical Names Starting With U
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''U'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links. A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – Y – Z U * Ucal *Uel *Ulai * Ulam *Ulla *Ummah *Unni * Uphaz *Upharsin * Ur * Urbane *Uri * Uriah *Uriel * Urim * Uthai * Uz * Uzai *Uzal *Uzzah * Uzzen-sherah *Uzzi *Uzziah Uzziah (; he, עֻזִּיָּהוּ ''‘Uzzīyyāhū'', meaning "my strength is Yah"; el, Ὀζίας; la, Ozias), also known as Azariah (; he, עֲזַרְיָה ''‘Azaryā''; el, Αζαρίας; la, Azarias), was the tenth king of t ... References *Comay, Joan, ''Who's Who in the Old Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1971, *Lockye ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Biblical Names Starting With A
This article includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''A'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links. A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – Y – Z A *Aaron, ''a teacher or lofty'', ''bright, shining'' (etymology doubtful) *Abba, ''father'' *Abaddon, see Apollyon ''a destroyer'', * Abagtha, ''God-given'' "etymology doubtful" * Abana, ''perennial, stony'' *Abarim, ''regions beyond'' *Abda, ''a servant'' * Abdeel, ''servant of God'' *Abdi, ''my servant'' *Abdiel, ''servant of God'' * Abdon, ''servile'' * Abednego, ''servant of Nego,'' perhaps the same as ''Nebo'' *Abel, ''breath, vapor, transitoriness;'' ''breath,'' or ''vanity'' *Abel-beth-maachah, ''meadow of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Biblical Names Starting With R
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''R'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links. A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – Y – Z R *Raamah * Raamiah *Rabbah *Rabbi * Rabbith * Rabboni * Rabmag * Rab-saris *Rabshakeh *Raca *Racal *Rachab * Rachal *Rachel * Raddai * Ragau *Raguel *Rahab *Rahab * Rakal * Raham * Rakem * Rakkath * Rakkon *Ram *Ramah * Ramath *Ramathaim-Zophim * Ramath-lehi * Ramath-mizpeh * Ramiah * Ramoth * Raphah * Reaiah * Reba *Rebekah *Rechab * Reelaiah * Regem * Regemmelech * Rehabiah *Rehob *Rehoboam * Rehoboth * Rehum *Rei * Rekem * Remaliah * Remmon *Remphan * Rephael * Rephaiah *Rephaim *Rephidim * Resen *Reu *Reuben *Re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uphaz
Uphaz is probably another name for Ophir (Book of Jeremiah 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Beas), the south-eastern limit of the Punjab. Mentions in the Bible * **Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish Tarshish ( Phoenician: ''TRŠŠ'', he, תַּרְשִׁישׁ ''Taršīš'', , ''Tharseis'') occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoen ..., and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. * **Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: References * Hebrew Bible places History of Yemen Book of Jeremiah Book of Daniel Ophir {{Tanakh-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Unni (Bible)
Unni may refer to: People * Unni (Indian name) * Unni (Norwegian given name) * Unni (bishop) 9th century German bishop Indian Malayalam films * ''Unni'' (1989 film) * ''Unni'' (2007 film) * '' Unni Vanna Divasam'' (1984) Other uses * Unni appam, an Indian snack {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ummah
' (; ar, أمة ) is an Arabic word meaning "community". It is distinguished from ' ( ), which means a nation with common ancestry or geography. Thus, it can be said to be a supra-national community with a common history. It is a synonym for ' (, 'the Islamic community'); it is commonly used to mean the collective community of Islamic people. In the Quran the ummah typically refers to a single group that shares common religious beliefs, specifically those that are the objects of a divine plan of salvation. In the context of pan-Islamism and politics, the word ' can be used to mean the concept of a '' Commonwealth of the Muslim Believers'' ( '). General usage The word ''ummah'' (pl. ''umam'') means nation in Arabic. For example, the Arabic term for the United Nations is ''الأمم المتحدة Al-Umam Al-Mutahedah'', and the term ''الأمة العربية Al-Ummah Al-Arabeyah'' is used to refer to "the Arab Nation". The word ''ummah'' differs from the concept of a country ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulla (Bible)
Ulla is a given name. It is short for Ursula in German-speaking countries and Ulrika/ Ulrikke in Scandinavian countries. As of 31 December 2011, there were 61,043 females named Ulla in Sweden, with the name being most popular during the 1930s and 40s, and as of 7 June 2010, there were 25,959 females named Ulla in Finland, most born between 1940 and 1979. People Pre-20th century * Ulla (Talmudist) (3rd-4th centuries AD), a rabbi mentioned in the Talmud * Ulla Adlerfelt (1736–1765), Swedish painter and noble, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts * Ulla von Höpken (1749–1810), Swedish lady-in-waiting, leading socialite and noble * Ulrika Pasch (1735–1796), Swedish painter and miniaturist also known as Ulla Pasch * Johanna Ulrica Ulla Stenberg (1792–1858), Swedish damask maker * Ulla Tessin (1711–1768), Swedish lady-in-waiting, letter writer, dilettante artist and countess, relative of Ulla von Höpken Modern period * Ulla Andersson (born 1946), Swedish forme ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Minor Old Testament Figures, L–Z
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulai
Ulai was the Hebrew name for a river near the city of Susa. It was known as Eulaus to the Greeks. It is mentioned twice in the Bible: * Daniel – "''In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.''" ( New International Version) *Daniel – "''And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, 'Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision. " The river Ulai is also mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh: "''May the sacred river u-la-a mourn you ndiku along whose banks we walked in our vigor''" (VIII-11-12). More details are available awww.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Ulai.html There are three watercourses near Susa, and scholars are divided on which is indicated, although archaeology by Loftus in 1851 and Dieulafoy in 1885 helped shed some light. The Ulai may have been the eastern branch of the Karkheh River (alternately called the Choaspes), which at one time divided into two branches some 20 mile ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uel (biblical Figure)
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Uel may refer to: People * Uel (biblical figure), a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Ezra * Uel Eubanks (1903–1954), baseball pitcher, briefly with the Chicago Cubs * Uel Graham (born 1967), Irish former cricketer *Uel Key, pseudonym of British author Samuel Whittell Key (1874–1948) * Uel W. Lamkin (1877–1956), president of Northwest Missouri State University Places * Uel Siktyakh, a river in Yakutia, Russia See also *UEL (other) UEL can refer to: * UEFA Europa League, the second tier of European club football * United Envirotech, a company based in Singapore * University of East London, a public University in London, UK * ''Universidade Estadual de Londrina'' ( State Unive ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ucal
Agur ben Jakeh ( he, אָגוּר בִּן־יָקֶה, ʾĀgūr bīn-Yāqe) was a sage of Arab descent and a compiler of a collection of proverbs found in Proverbs 30, which is sometimes known as the ''Book of Agur'' or ''Sayings of Agur''. Biblical accounts The initial text of the chapter runs as follows ( JPS translation), and bears great similarity to . This translation is not universally accepted as correct; see below. The text (verse 1) seems to say that he was a "Massaite," the gentilic termination not being indicated in the traditional writing "Ha-Massa." This place has been identified by some Assyriologists with the land of Mash, a district between Judea and Babylonia, and the traces of nomadic or semi-nomadic life and thought found in and give some support to the hypothesis. Heinrich Graetz, followed by Bickell and Cheyne, conjectures that the original reading is ("Ha-Moshel" = "the collector of proverbs"). Even still, the root word ''maššā'' denotes something th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Biblical Names Starting With Z
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''Z'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links. A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – X -- Y – Z Z * Zaanaim a., ''removings'' *Zaanannim * Zaavan, ''terror,'' * Zabad, ''gift'' *Zabbai, ''wanderer, pure'' ''pure'' * Zabbud, ''given,'' ''gift'' * Zabdi, ''Gift of Jehovah,'' ''my gift'' * Zabdiel, ''gift of God'' * Zaccai, ''pure'' *Zacchaeus, ''pure; clean; just'' * Zaccur, ''mindful'' * Zachariah, ''remembered by Jehovah,'' ''remembered by the Lord'' * Zacharias, ''the Lord has remembered,'' ''Greek form of Zechariah,'' * Zacher, ''memento; recollection; commemoration'' *Zadok, ''just'' ''righteous'' * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Biblical Names Starting With Y
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''Y'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links. A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – X - V – Y – Z Y * Yahweh * Yakob, Yacob - Jacob * Yasaf - Joseph * Yehezkel - Ezekiel * Yehoyada - Jehoida * Yehu * Yeshua - Jesus, a Hebrew Bible form of Joshua * Yoab - Joab * Yonah - Jonah * Yuval - Jubal References * Comay, Joan, ''Who's Who in the Old Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1971, * Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the men of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958 * Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the women of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988, * Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the Div ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |