Word: zephaniah
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...yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...
...Gaza shall be forsaken," warned the Old Testament Prophet Zephaniah. "Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast...
After Drake's desertion, command was awarded to Chief Magistrate John Zephaniah Holwell, a man with a will to win. The garrison, now reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...
Scholars agree that many of the differences in translations are absurdly anachronistic in the Ecumenical Century. For Catholics, the list of Old Testament prophets includes Osee and Sophonias; Protestants call them Hosea and Zephaniah. In Protestant Bibles, one of the books attributed to St. John is called Revelation; Catholics call it the Apocalypse. Other differences are more substantial: the Protestant Old Testament, for example, has 39 books; the Catholic, 45. Nonetheless, the Rev. J. Coert Rylaarsdam, an Episcopalian and chairman of Biblical studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, believes that "nothing now is in the way of English...
...William and Elizabeth Swift of Sandwich, Mass., in the late 17th century, were born a third son named Joseph and a fourth named Gireh. Joseph begat Thomas, who begat Nathaniel, who begat Gustavus, who founded one of the biggest meatpacking firms in the U.S.: Swift & Co. Gireh begat Zephaniah, who begat Perez, who begat Jesse, who begat Jehiel, who begat Orville. who begat Frank B. Swift, a prosperous wholesale merchant in New York. But while the better-known branch of the family from Sandwich went in for ham, Frank preferred cheese. His big, busy Chelsea commission house handled as many...
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