Sentence Examples

  • Women are admitted to priestly offices as well as men.
  • There the foundations of the second great Persian Empire were laid, and Istakhr acquired special importance as the centre of priestly wisdom and orthodoxy.
  • Although Judah was always closely connected with the south, these " southern " features (once clearly more extensive and complete) are found in the Deuteronomic and priestly compilations, and their presence in the historical records can hardly be severed from the prominence of " southern " families in the vicinity of Jerusalem, some time after the fall of Jerusalem.
  • Tobiah and his son Johanan were related by marriage to Judaean secular and priestly families, and active intrigues resulted, in which nobles and prophets took their part.
  • The determination of a fixed date must therefore have been much earlier than Deuteronomy or the alleged period of the Priestly Code.
 
» more...

WORDS NEAR priestly IN THE THESAURUS