() occurs only in the account of the Babylonian women in the apocryphal Epistle of Jeremiah (Bar 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, Handb. in loc.): “The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume,” etc., referring to the infamous practice of prostitution mentioned by Herodotus (i, 199). SEE BABYLON.<\/p>\n
() occurs only in the account of the Babylonian women in the apocryphal Epistle of Jeremiah (Bar 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, Handb. in loc.): “The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume,” etc., referring to the infamous practice of prostitution mentioned by Herodotus (i, 199). SEE BABYLON.<\/p>\n
apparently a very common name in Ireland from the 7th to the 9th century, and used sometimes by itself, sometimes in composition, as Branbeg, Brandubh, etc. In 735 St. Bran of Lann-Eala died, according to the Four Masters, but really in 740 (Annr Tig.). At May 18 stands the festival of Bran-beg of Claenadh. This is Branius (or Bran), one of the seven sons of Cuimne.<\/p>\n
BRAN.The burning of bran for incense is mentioned in Bar 6:43 as an accompaniment of the idolatrous worship of the women of Babylon.<\/p>\n
( , ta ptura): The women of Babylon are described as burning bran for incense in their unchaste idolatrous worship (Baruch 6:43).<\/p>\n
Bran () occurs only in the account of the Babylonian women in the apocryphal Epistle of Jeremiah (Bar 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, Handb. in loc.): “The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume,” etc., referring to the infamous practice … Continue reading “Bran”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}