Crossword clues for ananias
ananias
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"liar," a reference to Acts v:3-5.
Wiktionary
n. 1 In the New Testament, any of certain members of the early Christian church. 2 (given name male from=Hebrew).
Wikipedia
Metropolitan Ananias ( Georgian: მიტროპოლიტი ანანია, born Tengiz Japaridze, Georgian: თენგიზ ანატოლის ძე ჯაფარიძე, 1949 August 20, Tkibuli) is a Hierarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of Manglisi and Tetri-Tskaro, a permanent member of the Holy Synod of Georgian Orthodox Church since 1981. He is the Chairman of Synod Commission on Canonization of Saints, the Chairman of Scientific-Research Commission on Determination of True History. At the present time he is the eldest Metropolitan of Georgian Orthodox Church after the Patriarch (by consecration on 15.03.1981). The Name’s Day is 14 October ( Apostle Ananias of the Seventy).
Usage examples of "ananias".
We traversed the street called Straight a good way, and then turned off and called at the reputed house of Ananias.
I took a drink out of Ananias' well, and singularly enough, the water was just as fresh as if the well had been dug yesterday.
When, at the house of that criminal Ananias, he had rejoiced at the rich man’s punishment in hell and clapped his hands and shouted, “Served him right!
As soon as he finished eating and the slaves brought him water and he washed his hands, he drew near to Ananias, whispered something in his ear, and all at once the old man’s mind turned upside down, he burst into tears and began to divide his goods among the poor.
And one of Jesus’ disciples, Ananias—God bless him—came to the cottage where I was lodging.
I want you to sit in on the Ananias team briefing before we interrogate your boy again.
When Ananias and Saphira sell their land, but try to deceive the apostles by pretending that their partial donation is the whole payment they received, they're miraculously struck dead in punishment.
Peter passing sentence of death on Ananias--I say, these two strike the mind with the utmost surprise, the passions are so drawn to the life.
The same month Elinor, the daughter of the Govemor, the wife of Ananias Dare, gave birth to a daughter, the first white child born in this part of the continent, who was named Virginia.
If the lost colony had gone to Croatan, it was probable that Ananias Dare and his wife, the Governor's daughter, and the little Virginia Dare, were with them.
The delegation partook of luncheon at the conclusion of which the dusky potentate, in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias Praisegod Barebones, tendered his best thanks to Massa Walkup and emphasised the cordial relations existing between Abeakuta and the British empire, stating that he treasured as one of his dearest possessions an illuminated bible, the volume of the word of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the white chief woman, the great squaw Victoria, with a personal dedication from the august hand of the Royal Donor.