| Term | Definition |
|---|
| garden of eden | adam and eve; paradise prepared by god |
| adam | first man |
| eve | first woman |
| the fall | expulsion of adam and eve |
| the serpent | chief of god's fallen angels |
| the tree of knowledge or life | eating the fruit gave them the knowledge of good and evil |
| cain and abel | children of adam and eve |
| enoch | before the flood to live less than 750 years |
| methuselah | was enoch's son |
| the flood | noah and his family obeyed to god |
| noah | followed god; built the ark and saved his own family |
| tower of babel | constructed a tower to heaven; god got angry; nobody spoke the same language |
| abraham | religious history of the hebrew nation |
| sarah | abraham's wife |
| isaac | son of abraham and sarah |
| sodom and gomorrah | abraham lived among evil towns; god wished to destroy them; abraham brought out righteous people |
| hagar | handmaiden or servan of sarah |
| ismael | son of abraham and hagar |
| abraham's bosom | synonym for paradise; abraham knew god and found peace |
| jacob and esau | twin sons of issac and rebecca; jacob stole esau's birthright |
| jacob's ladder | vision of god's angels ascending and descending |
| joseph | favorite son of jacob;dipped joesph's coat in blood |
| moses | hebrew parents in egypt; mother hid him in bulrushes; through moses, god sent the ten plagues |
| aaron | god chose aaron, his brother, to be a spokesman |
| burning bush | god appeared to moses in this form |
| land of milk and honey | god to abraham and his descendants was known as the promised land |
| the ten plagues | god sent moses to the pharoah to plead for the release of the israelites |
| plague 1 | the waters of the nile turned to blood |
| plague 2 | frogs were multiplied on the land |
| plague 3 | lice infested both animals and people |
| plague 4 | flies infested the land |
| plague 5 | a disease caused the cattle to die |
| plague 6 | people were covered with bolis |
| plague 7 | hail destroyed crops |
| plague 8 | locusts destroyed the crops which remained after the storm |
| plague 9 | darkness covered the land for three days |
| plague 10 | the first born of the cattle and people were killed |
| the passover | israelites might escape the tenth and last plague; commanded to sprinkle blood of a lamb on their doorports; angel of death passed over to kill the first born; first born lived if bllood over doorpost |
| manna | special bread |
| mt. sinai | moutain where god appeared to moses and gave him the ten commandments |
| mosaic tablets | symbol for the stone rocks upon which the ten commandments were written |
| golden calf | moses was on mt. sinai the people became tired of wating and built a golden calf to worship; moses broke it |
| ask of the covenant | a box where the tablets containing the ten commandments were placed |
| the mercy seat | plate of gold on top of the ark of the covenant; part in the ritual of asking god's forgiveness for sins |
| pilar of fire, pillar of cloud | columns of fire and cloud which appeared in the sky |
| aaron's rod | to prove that aaron's descendants were to be given te priestly office, the rod or staff, of each of the twelve tribes were placed |
| firery serpent | symbol of healing for the medical profession;firery serpents sent to the israelites because they had complained about not having anything to eat except manna |
| rosh hashona | religious festival celebrating the new year |
| yom kippur | festival occours ten days after rosh hashonah and is known as the "day of atonement" |
| jubliee | after every seventh year was a sabbatical year in ; all slaves were set free with the phrase "proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all inhabitants therof" |
| joshua | after the death of moses, joshua took over |
| seige of jericho | city near the jordan river captured by the israelites of the way to the promise land |
| samson and delilah | samson-dedicated from birth to the service of god and one of the judges; delilah- samson fell in love with her; she cut his hair and turned him into Philistines enemy |
| ruth, boaz, naomi | ruth wasn't a hebrew but when her hebrew husband dided she married boaz, had a son named obed |
| samuel | last of the great judges who ruled isreal |
| saul | first hebrew king; famous for his many moods |
| david | followed saul as king of israel; brave warrior who slew the giant goliath, a philistine with a rock from his sling-shot |
| nathan | trusted advisor to king david; courage to stand up to the king and tell him that he been in killing bath-sheba's husband, uriah |
| bath-sheba | wife of uriah; son's death was a punishment from god because david had caused uriah to be killed. |
| absalom | very handsome son of david; killed his half brother, father david forgave him; later killed david with three darts to the heart |
| solomon | another son of king david; wisest man on earth; god told him he could have anything he wished for and it would be gathered |
| ahab | a king of the divided kingdom of judah; married jezebel |
| jesebel | wife of ahab; responsible for turning him the worship of god; woman who turns someone from good to evil |
| elijah | famous prophet under king ahab who challenged the prophets of the false idol baal |
| esther | was queen of persia |
| job | righteous man in god's sight; satan made job lose his wealth and respect and job stood steadfast and never cursed god and god returned everything back to job |
| daniel | taken to babylon after the fall of jersualem in 826 b.c.; thrown in the lion's den and the fiery furnace because of his faiith in god |
| jonah | jonah tried to escape telling people about god and was thrown overboard and a big fish swalled him; he prayed, god rescued, he repented and taught the city about god and the city was saved |
| balm in gilead | place known for medicine and aromatic herbs; turned agains god and were in need of spiritual healing |
| hanukkah | jewish festival; celebrates the victory of the jews over the syrians in 165 b.c. and the rededication of the temple for worship |
| christ | known as jesus; the promised savior; or messiah; king of israel |
| joesph | jesus' earthly father and a carpenter in nazareth |
| mary | mother of christ; told by the angel gabriel that she would bear a son and name him emmanuel or jesus |
| immaculate concption | prophets of the old testament foretold that the savior would be bron of a virgin |
| the nativity | term used for the birth of jesus, the son of god, to the virgin mary |
| the magi | known as the wise men from the east; names were melchior, gaspar, and balthasar |
| herod | king of judah at the time of the birth of christ; ordered that all male children under the age of two were to be killed |
| john the baptist | cousin of jesus who preached repentance; jesus was baptized by him in the river jordan |
| the sermon of the mount | first sermon of jesus; contained the beatitudes; a list of type of people who will be blessed |
| apostle or disciple | were twelve men handpicked by jesus to be his chosen followers; after his death and resurrection they were to carry on his mission |
| matthew | was a tax collector and one of the twelve disciples of jesus |
| peter | simon peter was one of jesus' disciples; known as the rock; jesus said he would found his church on peter's faith |
| judas iscariot | one of the twelve disciples of jesus; betrayed jesus for thirty pieces of silver; later repented but too late; he hanged himself |
| thomas | disciple of jesus who was absent when jesus first appeared to the disciples after his resurrection |
| john | was the disciple most beloved of christ |
| gospel | another word for good news |
| parable | simple story illustrating moral or religious point |
| good samaritan | love for one's neighbor |
| prodical son | parable told by jesus to teach forgiveness |
| transfiguration | a person takes on a shining or glowing appearance |
| miracle | extordinary even considered to be the result of divine intervention |
| wedding at cana | cana of galilee was the site of jesus' first miracle; jesus took 70 storage barrels of water and turned them into wine |
| lazarus | brother of mary and martha- followers of jesus; jesus raised him from the dead |
| mary magdalene | sinner who changed her lifestyle, believed in jesus, and became a devout follower |
| mary and martha | were sisters and devoted followers of christ |
| pharisees, sadducees, scribes | were the educated men during the time of jesus; questioning the things he did and trying to trap him into blasphemy |
| whited sepulcher | sepulcher is a tomb made of rocks |
| palm sunday | day that christ rod triumphantly into jersalem on a donkey |
| garden of gethsemene | place where jesus often went with his disciples to pray, rest, and talk; here that he was betrayed by judas iscariot |
| the last supper | followers were to reinact this meal as a remembrance of jesus |
| pilate | governor of jerusalem; washes his hands; jesus to the jews to be crucified |
| crucifixion | was the method used to kill jesus; nailed to a cross by his hands and feet and left to die |
| golgotha | hill on which jesus was crucified |
| simon the cyrenean | man from cryene called upon to carry the cross for christ up the hill to golgotha |
| resurrection | term meaning rising from the dead |
| the ascension | occurred 40 days after the resurrection of christ; jesus promised the disciples that they would recieve help in taking the message to the people |
| pentecost | jewish celebration which occured 50 days after the passover; feast of weeks; on this day the holy spirit decended upon peter and the disciples in the form of tongues of fire |
| paul | known as saul before he was converted to the christian faith; saul was blinded by the strong light |
| stephen | first christian matyr; stoned to death while paul/saul watched |
| revelation of st. john | last book in the new testament; apocryphal means hidden; second coming of christ |
| babylon | city know for its wealth, grandeur, and wickedness; citizens of jerusalem were taken there in exile |
| armegeddon | armageddon was a battlefield where several historical events took place |
| second coming | christians believe that christ will come again to judge the earth. |
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