Crossword clues for gamaliel
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Greek Gamaliel, from Hebrew Gamli'el, literally "reward of God."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 213
Land area (2000): 0.843551 sq. miles (2.184788 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.843551 sq. miles (2.184788 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29872
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.639956 N, 85.793372 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 42140
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Gamaliel
Wikipedia
Gamaliel the Elder (; also spelled Gamliel; Hebrew: רבן גמליאל הזקן; Greek: Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος) or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early 1st century CE. He was the son of Simeon ben Hillel, and grandson of the great Jewish teacher Hillel the Elder, and died twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70 CE). He fathered a son, whom he called Simeon, after his father, and a daughter, who married a priest named Simon ben Nathanael. In some Christian traditions, he is said to have converted to Christianity and is venerated as a Saint along with his second son, Abibo (also Abibas, Abibus). In the Christian tradition, Gamaliel is recognized as a Pharisee doctor of Jewish Law. The Acts of the Apostles chapter 5 speaks of Gamaliel as a man, held in great esteem by all Jews, who spoke to not condemn the apostles of Jesus in to death, and as the Jewish law teacher of Paul the Apostle in .
Gamaliel is a Hebrew name meaning reward of God.
Gamaliel is the Qliphah associated with the Sephirah Yesod on the kabbalistic Tree of Life. It translates as 'The Obscene Ones'.
Gamaliel, also spelled Gamliel and Gamiliel, is the Greek form of the Hebrew name meaning "God is my reward/recompense" indicating the loss of one or more earlier children in the family. A number of influential individuals have had the name:
Usage examples of "gamaliel".
The strangers halted momentarily in their fighting, looking up at Daile and Gamaliel in surprise.
The two friends ate their lunch, then Gamaliel helped Evaine gather her things.
The sun was setting in a sea of bronze clouds as Evaine and Gamaliel stopped before a seemingly impenetrable thicket of brambles and thorny bushes.
Evaine quickly ascended, Gamaliel on her heels, entering a room that was in truth not located anywhere in her house.
Caught up as she was in the hunt, she did not notice the quiet look of approval Gamaliel bestowed on her.
She turned to warn Gamaliel to be silent, but the barbarian had disappeared.
The venison would sustain her and her father on their journey back to the Valley of the Falls, and they could leave plenty behind for Gamaliel and Evaine.
She burst from the shadows of the forest a second behind Gamaliel, only to be greeted by a rather strange sight: four people were being attacked by a hedge of thornbushes.
Evaine and Gamaliel quickly fell into their accustomed traveling habits.
She and Gamaliel had made good time, putting nearly a half-dozen leagues behind them.
Deciding it would be safe to leave the sorceress unattended for a short while, Gamaliel bounded off between the trees into the fading purple twilight.
As she and Gamaliel ascended the mound, the midday light seemed to grow curiously dim.
At the worst, she and Gamaliel would discover what it felt like to be turned inside out.
But the success of the spell meant that as long as she and Gamaliel raised no hand against them, the beasts would leave the two interlopers alone.
Then the hideous things were gone, and Evaine and Gamaliel were alone in the frigid darkness.