Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
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Of Apis King of Argos, whom the Egyptians Called Serapis, and ...
... Book XVIII. Chapter 5."Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the Egyptians Called
Serapis, and Worshipped with Divine Honors. In these times ...
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The Jewish Institutions and Laws of Far Higher Antiquity than the ...
... And Apis the king of Argos built Memphis, as Aristippus says in the first
book of the Arcadica. ... And Apis is third after Inachus. ...
/.../the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xxi the jewish institutions and.htm
Under Ban of the Ritual
... CHAPTER II UNDER BAN OF THE RITUAL. Holy Memphis, city of Apis, habitat
of Ptah! Not idly was she called Menefer, the Good Place. ...
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The Vain Machinations of the Arians and Melitians against St. ...
... Apis [1181] and Macarius, presbyters of the Church of Athanasius, who then happened
to be at court, clearly proved the persistent accusation to be false. ...
/.../chapter xxii the vain machinations of.htm
The Absurdity and Shamefulness of the Images by which the Gods are ...
... whence the darkish hue of the image; and having mixed the whole with the colouring
matter that was left over from the funeral of Osiris and Apis, moulded the ...
/.../exhortation to the heathen/chapter iv the absurdity and shamefulness.htm
The Swift Decay of Love
... puts it all in two words,"'the calf and the dancing.' There in the midst, perhaps
on some pedestal, was the shameful copy of the Egyptian Apis; and whirling ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the swift decay of love.htm
Of the Advent of Jesus; of the Fortunes of the Jews, and their ...
... Moses, their leader, had ascended into the mountain, and there tarried forty days,
they made the head [566] of an ox in gold, which they call Apis, [567] that ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap x of the advent of.htm
Jeroboam
... In Egypt he had become accustomed to the ritual of Apis and Mnevis, which was by
no means so gross and demoralising as the idolatry of the Canaanites, and he ...
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Cambyses.
... His explanation of them."Cambyses relents."His treatment of the body of
Amasis."Cambyses's desecrations."The sacred bull Apis."Cambyses stabs the ...
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Arguments of the Psychics, Drawn from the Law, the Gospel, the ...
... they consider) the novel name of a studied duty, and very much akin to heathenish
superstition, like the abstemious rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and ...
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Thesaurus
Apis (1 Occurrence)... (n.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee
(
Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
...Apis (1 Occurrence).
.../a/apis.htm - 6kGolden (86 Occurrences)
... the essential historicity of the account, generally followed Philo and the early
Fathers in supposing this calf of gold was an image of the Apis or Mnevis ...
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Calf (39 Occurrences)
... The golden calf which Aaron made (Exodus 32:4) was probably a copy of the god Moloch
rather than of the god Apis, the sacred ox or calf of Egypt. ...
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Memphis (8 Occurrences)
... 3. The Founders and the City: The oldest center of settlement was probably the shrine
of the sacred bull, Apis or Hapy, which was in the South of the city. ...
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Alexandria (4 Occurrences)
... religion in which the greatest Greek god was worshipped as Osiris, Egyptian god
of the underworld, whose soul appeared visibly in the form of the Apis bull. ...
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Apiece (12 Occurrences)
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Apocalypse
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Forcing (25 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Jeremiah 46:15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not
able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength. ...
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Bible Concordance
Apis (1 Occurrence)Jeremiah 46:15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.
(BBE RSV)
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Golden (86 Occurrences)
Calf (39 Occurrences)
Memphis (8 Occurrences)
Alexandria (4 Occurrences)
Apiece (12 Occurrences)
Apocalypse
Forcing (25 Occurrences)
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