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Dorcas. Dorcas ( Greek: Δορκάς, romanized : Dorkás ), or Tabitha ( Imperial Aramaic: טביתא/ܛܒܝܬܐ, romanized: Ṭaḇīṯā, lit. ' (female) gazelle'), was an early disciple of Jesus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles [1] [2] ( Acts 9:36–43, see discussion here ). She lived in the port city of Joppa, today absorbed by Tel ...
Dorcas society. Edwin Long 's A Dorcas Meeting in the 6th Century (painted 1873–1877) imagines a Dorcas society of Late antiquity. A Dorcas society is a local group of people, usually based in a church, with a mission of providing clothing to the poor. [1] Dorcas societies are named after Dorcas (also called Tabitha), a person described in ...
Tabitha (/ ˈ t æ b ɪ θ ə /) is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Tabitha, mentioned in the New Testament Acts 9:36. In the Bible [ edit ] Tabitha, or Dorcas , the Greek equivalent of the name, is a woman mentioned in the New Testament .
Rose Madder is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1995.It deals with the effects of domestic violence (which King had touched upon before in the novels It, Insomnia, Dolores Claiborne, Needful Things, and many others) and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology.
Binomial name. Graphium dorcus. ( de Haan, 1840) Synonyms. Papilio dorcus de Haan, 1840. Pathysa dorcus. Graphium dorcus, or Tabitha's swordtail, is a butterfly found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that belongs to the swallowtail family. The species was first described by Wilhem de Haan in 1840.
Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible: 5 vols. (rev. ed., 2010) vol. 2, the main article is on "Dorcas" vol. 2, article on "Men's garments": DORCAS fully capitalised to send to article: "DORCAS had made numbers of these articles" vol. 3, article on "Joppa": Tabitha (DORCAS) => named as Tabitha by entry author; Dorcas betw. brackets & fully ...
Disciple (Christianity) Jesus giving the Farewell Discourse ( John 14–17) to his disciples, after the Last Supper, from the Maestà by Duccio, 1308–1311. In Christianity, a disciple is a dedicated follower of Jesus. This term is found in the New Testament only in the Gospels and Acts. In the ancient world, a disciple is a follower or ...
Sabil Abu Nabbut, [1] old postcard from the British Mandate of Palestine -period. Sabil Abu Nabbut ( Arabic: سبيل أبو نبوت) also known as Tabitha's Well is a public fountain ("sabil") in Jaffa, Israel, built in 1815/16 CE [2] during the Ottoman period in Palestine. [3] [4] Its main purpose was to facilitate the journey between Jaffa ...