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Tawus Version SEE PERSIAN VERSIONS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Tawny Owl See Owl Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible

Tawdry a name given to the necklace worn of old by English peasant girls, in memory and honor of St. Ethelreda, or Awdry, patroness of the diocese of Ely, who, after she had become religious, mourned for the vanity in which she had indulged by wearing gold necklaces. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Tawdry”

Tawals in Slavonic mythology, was a god of the fields, bestower of blessings, worshipped by the Polanders. Tawbutte, a talbot (i.e. a hunting dog), frequently used in mediaeval heraldic devices. In an inventory of church goods at Easington, Oxford, is the following: Item, a vestment powdered with stars and tawbuttes. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Tawals”

Taw TAW.The twenty-second letter of the Heb. alphabet, and as such employed in the 119th Psalm to designate the 22nd part, each verse of which begins with this letter. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Taw tau (, t, , th): The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet; transliterated in this Encyclopedia with the daghesh … Continue reading “Taw”

Tavthe the Babylonian name for the mother of the gods, thought to be the same as Tihanmtu or Tihamat, the sea. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Tavium A titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan of Ancyra. Tavium, or Tavia, was the chief city of the Galatian tribe of Trocmi, and owing to its position on the high roads of commerce was an important trading post. There are still extant some of the coins of Marcus Aurelius and Elagabalus. In the temple … Continue reading “Tavium”

Tavistock Abbey Tavistock Abbey, on the Tavy River in Devonshire, England, founded for Benedictine monks in 961 by Earl Ordgar of Devon, and completed by his son Ordulf in 981, in which year the charter of confirmation was granted by King Ethelred. It was endowed with lands in Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, and became one … Continue reading “Tavistock Abbey”

TAVERNS, THREE A village thirty-three miles south of Rome, mentioned by Cicero, and still called Tre Tavern. See APPI FORUM. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Taverns, Three TAVERNS, THREE (Latin Tres Tabern).A name of uncertain origin, which might be translated three shops or three huts. It was a station on the Appian Road (built … Continue reading “Taverns, Three”

Taverns, The three a place on the great “Appian Way,” about 11 miles from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates. Here Paul, on his way to Rome, was met by a band of Roman Christians (Acts 28:15). The “Tres Tabernae was the first mansio or mutatio, that is, halting-place for … Continue reading “Taverns, The Three”