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  1. Nov 5, 2014 · The OED’s first citation is from the Coverdale Bible, a 1535 translation of the Bible in modern English: “An horrible drede hath ouerwhelmed me.” The newcomer here, as you point out, is “underwhelm,” which showed up in the mid-20th century, according to citations in the dictionary.

  2. Jan 4, 2022 · If by “Jew” we mean “the first person in the Bible to be referred to as a Jew,” the nameless Jews in 2 Kings chapters 1625 were the first Jews. Generally speaking, people today use the term Jew to refer to “a person who is of the chosen people of Israel.”

  3. Jan 22, 2011 · The first appearance of the word “Jew” in the Bible is in Kings II 16:6. Its connotation there is identical to that of “men of Yehuda”: “and drove the Jews from Eilat.” Over time, this name replaced the earlier ones, though the meaning remained unchanged.

  4. G911 - βάπτω báptō, bap'-to; a primary verb; to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid; in the New Testament only in a qualified or special sense, i.e. (literally) to moisten (a part of one's person), or (by implication) to stain (as with dye):—dip.

  5. Historically, believers baptism appears in the very first Confessions of our forefathers, the evangelical wing of the Anabaptists. Balthasar Hubmaier spoke to it in 1524 in Eighteen Dissertations Concerning the Entire Christian Life and of What It Consists in proposition 8, and Michael Sattler listed it as the first of the seven articles of

  6. OED's earliest evidence for whelm is from around 1576. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500). whelm is formed within English, by conversion.

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  8. The earliest translation of the Hebrew Bible is the Old Greek (OG), the translation made in Alexandria, Egypt, for the use of the Greek-speaking Jewish community there. At first, just the Torah was translated, in the third century B.C.E.; the rest of the biblical books were translated later.

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