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Feb 11, 2008 · The figurative meaning, “a person who panders to an undesirable or immoral impulse,” was found by the middle of the 17 th century. The verb to pimp dates from the early 17 th century. But the ...
Dec 10, 2020 · pander. "arranger of sexual liaisons, one who caters for the lusts of others," 1520s, "procurer, pimp," from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer ("Troylus and Cryseyde"), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in "Filostrato") as name of the pr. procure.
Dec 3, 2000 · The origin of the word “pimp” is unknown, said Sheidlower, who disagrees with Webster’s etymology that attributes it to the French pimper, meaning to allure or to dress smartly.
- Oral Tradition
- Original Manuscripts: Hebrew Bible
- Original Manuscripts: Greek New Testament
- The Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter
- Translation History
It is often assumed by scholars that oral traditionamong early Israelite communities is where the contents of the Bible originated. This, of course, cannot be proved with documented manuscripts, so it is difficult to point to a specific date or year when the stories found in the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the “Old Testament,” began to exist...
There has been debate about when the Hebrew Bible began to be written down, but the oldest possible manuscripts of a biblical text archaeologists have found are the Ketef Hinnom Scrolls, which were written in the seventh century BCE. They read in Hebrew, “May Yahweh bless you and keep you; May Yahweh cause his face to Shine upon you and grant you P...
The New Testament texts are easier to trace since these letters and narratives were better preserved by early Christians. Although there are debates on the exact dating of each New Testament book, it is agreed that all the books found in the canonized New Testament were written between 48 and 125 CE. The first unified collection of New Testament bo...
It was not until the late fourth century that the collection of books in the New Testament were first recognized as “canonical” alongside the Hebrew Bible. In 367 CE, the church father Athanasius wrote his Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter, in which he acknowledged what is called the “closed canon” of the Bible. Although disputed by others, his letter ult...
The Latin Vulgatewas translated by St. Jerome in 382 CE. This was the first complete Latin version of the entire Old and New Testaments plus the Apocrypha, translated for use in the Latin-speaking church at the time. Although there were other Latin versions of the Bible before this, the Vulgate standardized them. Additionally, different versions of...
The word pimp first appeared in English in 1607, in a Thomas Middleton play entitled Your Five Gallants. It is of unknown origin, but may have stemmed from the French infinitive pimper meaning to dress up elegantly and from the present participle pimpant meaning alluring in seductive dress.
The 10th-century lexicographer, David ben Abraham al-Fasi, identified Ophir with Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon). Moreover, as mentioned above, A Dictionary of the Bible by Sir William Smith notes the Hebrew word for parrot Thukki, derived from the Classical Tamil for peacock Thogkai or Sinhalese "tokei".
The name Semite comes from Shem, the eldest of the three sons of Noah. In the Greek and Latin versions of the Bible, Shem becomes Sem, since neither Greek nor Latin has any way of representing the initial sound of the Hebrew name.
