Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible Online

I. Name The etymology of the name Noah has never been satisfactorily explained. It is usually connected with the verb root nwḥ ‘rest, settle down’ (of the ark Gen. 8.4), ‘repose, be quiet’ (after labour Exod. 20.11) and so Noah may mean ‘rest’ possibly in association with the resting of the ark on the mountains of Ararat after the flood. The root appears in Akk. nâḫu to rest, as in inūḫ tâmtu … abūbu ikla ‘the sea subsided … the flood ceased’ in the Babylonian account of the flood ( Gilg. xi, 131) and Noth (1951: 254–257) has identified Naḫ as a theophoric element in personal names as…

I. Name In the OT the adjective ʾaddîr is used in describing Yahweh ( Exod. 15.11; 1 Sam. 4.8; Pss. 18.2, Pss. 10; Pss. 76.5) and also of persons or things of more than normal stature or strength, like the sea ( Ps. 93.4), the mighty cedars of the Libanon ( Ezek. 17.23), mighty people ( Ezek. 32.18), or kings ( Ps. 136.18). In Ps. 16.3 it seems to denote pagan deities (Tournay 1988:335). II. Identity In the ancient Ugaritic legend of Aqhat the ʾadrm are mentioned together with the king fulfilling his usual duties ( KTU2 1.17 v:7). They reside on the threshing-floor. According to KTU2 1.20–22 this i…

I. Name Usually, in the Greek Bible the word nomos, law, is used to refer to the OT and Jewish Torah as a set of rules for life. (For a general treatment of the role of the law in Jewish writings of the Second Temple Period see the overview of Sanders 1992; the NT material is dealt with by Hübner 1981.) In the letters of Paul and in the Jewish apocalypse 4 Ezra, however, the word sometimes seems to designate a supernatural power or agent. II. Identity The word nomos is not often used as a personification (cf. LSJ s.v.). For Pindar (cf. Frag. 169—also quoted by Plato, Gorg. 484b) the Law is the king of…