Ostraca

... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia OSTRACA. os'-tra-ka: The word ostracon ("potsherd," Hebrew cheres) occurs in Job 2:8 (Septuagint ... biblethesaurus.org/o/ostraca.htm - 10k

Ahab (85 Occurrences)

... These ostraca seem to be labels attached to jars kept in a room adjoining Ahab's palace. One of them reads, "In the ninth year. From Shaphtan. For Ba`al-zamar. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ahab.htm - 52k

Ahio (6 Occurrences)

... brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ahio.htm - 10k

Shiloah (1 Occurrence)

... inscription of the nature of a graffito; the flowing nature of the writing is fully explained by Dr. Reissner's recent discovery of ostraca at Samaria written ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shiloah.htm - 17k

Siloah (1 Occurrence)

... inscription of the nature of a graffito; the flowing nature of the writing is fully explained by Dr. Reissner's recent discovery of ostraca at Samaria written ... biblethesaurus.org/s/siloah.htm - 17k

Shelah (18 Occurrences)

... inscription of the nature of a graffito; the flowing nature of the writing is fully explained by Dr. Reissner's recent discovery of ostraca at Samaria written ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shelah.htm - 24k

Siloam (4 Occurrences)

... inscription of the nature of a graffito; the flowing nature of the writing is fully explained by Dr. Reissner's recent discovery of ostraca at Samaria written ... biblethesaurus.org/s/siloam.htm - 21k

Alphabet (2 Occurrences)

... (circa 800 BC); (3) Baal-Lebanon inscription (circa 750 BC); (4) Siloam inscription (circa 700 BC); (5) Harvard Samaritan ostraca (time of Ahab?); (6) Gezer ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alphabet.htm - 24k

Messenger (235 Occurrences)

... Ulrich Wilcken published Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien, and in 1902 WE Crum produced his book of Christian ostraka called Coptic Ostraca from the ... biblethesaurus.org/m/messenger.htm - 101k

Ostracize (1 Occurrence)

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Ostentation (1 Occurrence)

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Ink (4 Occurrences)

... on a wholly new basis by the study of the Elephantine Jewish documents (Meyer, Papyrusfund2, 1912, 15, 21), and above all of the Harvard Ostraca from Samaria ... biblethesaurus.org/i/ink.htm - 10k

Writing (194 Occurrences)

... Bible itself. The existing ostraca from Ahab's palace are, however, done with the brush. The pencil ... refer to this material. SeeOSTRACA. ... biblethesaurus.org/w/writing.htm - 70k

Number (2370 Occurrences)

... The Siloam Inscription, which is probably the oldest specimen of Hebrew writing extant (with the exception of the ostraca of Samaria, and perhaps a seal or two ... biblethesaurus.org/n/number.htm - 40k

Potter (14 Occurrences)

... all probability were made of pottery, have been translated by terms which indicate that fact (For cheres, and yatsar, see EARTHEN VESSELS; OSTRACA.) kadh, is ... biblethesaurus.org/p/potter.htm - 28k

Pottery (11 Occurrences)

... all probability were made of pottery, have been translated by terms which indicate that fact (For cheres, and yatsar, see EARTHEN VESSELS; OSTRACA.) kadh, is ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pottery.htm - 27k

Text (5 Occurrences)

... from Nineveh of about the year 700; the Siloam Inscription of the time of Hezekiah; about a score of seals; and, in 1911, a large number of ostraca of the time ... biblethesaurus.org/t/text.htm - 73k

Alexandria (4 Occurrences)

... Some sixty letters of the 4th century written to a Christian cavalry officer in the Egyptian army are also preserved, while papyri and ostraca from circa 600 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alexandria.htm - 31k

Potsherd (6 Occurrences)

... in Job 41:30 substitutes "sharp potsherds" for "sharp stones." Sirach 22:7 refers to the art of "gluing a potsherd (ostrakon) together." See HARSITH; OSTRACA. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/potsherd.htm - 9k

Book (211 Occurrences)

... These may be on clay tablets, as in Babylonia and the neighboring regions, or on ostraca as found especially in Egypt, but everywhere in the ancient ... biblethesaurus.org/b/book.htm - 101k

Monthly (11 Occurrences)

... from Nineveh of about the year 700; the Siloam Inscription of the time of Hezekiah; about a score of seals; and, in 1911, a large number of ostraca of the time ... biblethesaurus.org/m/monthly.htm - 93k

Language (112 Occurrences)

... Ulrich Wilcken published Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien, and in 1902 WE Crum produced his book of Christian ostraka called Coptic Ostraca from the ... biblethesaurus.org/l/language.htm - 101k

Tabeel (2 Occurrences)

... Ulrich Wilcken published Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien, and in 1902 WE Crum produced his book of Christian ostraka called Coptic Ostraca from the ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tabeel.htm - 101k

Sodomite (1 Occurrence)

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