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Term Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Bible beater, Bible basher: North America: Pentecostals: A dysphemism for people who believe in the fundamentalist authority of the Bible, particularly those from a Pentecostal or fundamentalist denomination. It is also a slang term for an evangelising Christian.
Sep 25, 1993 · In slang, the sister’s dissin’ God, and that ain’t cool. “It’s an abomination,” said Houston Baptist preacher Carl Hodges. “I object strenuously to her language.
Jul 21, 2015 · Murphy, who also oversees the language-watching blog Separated by a Common Language, says: "English has a rich variety of means for making new words — and then a lot of slang is just giving new ...
Bible portal. v. t. e. The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and many other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology, a compilation of ...
Aug 30, 2023 · Aug 30, 2023, 10:42 AM PDT. The Bible is getting a Gen Z translation. Fred de Noyelle / Getty Images. People are praising a TikTok account that is translating Bible stories into Gen Z slang....
Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton ( / ˌtɛtrəˈɡræmətɒn / TET-rə-GRAM-ə-ton; from Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον ' [consisting of] four letters'), or the Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ( transliterated as YHWH or YHVH ), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
Chronology of the Bible. The chronology of the Bible is an elaborate system of lifespans, ' generations ', and other means by which the Masoretic Hebrew Bible (the text of the Bible most commonly in use today) measures the passage of events from the creation to around 164 BCE (the year of the re-dedication of the Second Temple ).
