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Daniel ( Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל) is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge" [ 8][ 9] and derives from two early biblical figures, primary among them Daniel from the Book of Daniel. It is a common given name for males and also used as a surname, regularly the basis for various derived given names ...
Daniel (Dn'il, or Danel) is also the name of a figure in the Aqhat legend from Ugarit. [ 4] (. Ugarit was a Canaanite city destroyed around 1200 BCE – the tablet containing the story is dated c. 1360 BCE.) [ 11] This legendary Daniel is known for his righteousness and wisdom and a follower of the god El (hence his name), who made the god’s ...
Daniel commonly refers to: Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname. List of people named Daniel. List of people with surname Daniel. Daniel (biblical figure) Book of Daniel, a 2nd-century BCE biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel". Daniel may also refer to:
Meaning. Strong, firm, enduring, impetuous. Ethan is a male given name of Hebrew origin ( איתן Eytan ) that means "firm, enduring, strong and long-lived". The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 4:31, Ps. 89 title, 1 Chr. 2:6 and 2:8, 1 Chr. 6:42 and 6:44, and 1 Chr. 15:17 and 15:19). See Ethan (biblical figure) .
List of biblical names. Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations, or are used to illustrate prophecies. [ 2] [clarification needed]
v. t. e. The son of perdition ( Greek: ὁ υἱός τῆς ἀπωλείας, ho huios tēs apōleias) is a phrase associated with a demoniacal title that appears in the New Testament in the Gospel of John 17:12 and in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 2:3 .
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC apocalypse from Judea with a 6th century BC setting. [1] Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [2] it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology (a portrayal of end times) both cosmic in scope and political in focus, [1] and its message is that just as the God of Israel saves Daniel from ...
Nathanael. The biblical Nathanael depicted in stained glass. Nathanael is a biblical given name derived from the Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל ( Netan'el ), which means "God/ El has given" or "Gift of God/ El ." [ 1] Nathaniel is the variant form of this name and it stands to this day as the usual and most common spelling for a masculine given name.