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- Adonis (ςΑδωνις, prob. from a Phoenician form of the Hebrew אָדוֹן, lord), was, according to Apollodorus (3, 14, 3), the son of Cinyrus and Medane, or, according to other accounts (Hesiod and Panyasis in Apollod. ut sup. 14), of Phoenix and Alphesibcea, or of an Assyrian king, Theias, by his own daughter, Smyrna, who was changed into a myrrh-tree (σμύρνα) in endeavoring to escape her father's rage on discovering the incest.
Adonis. ADONIS ə dō’ nĭs (̓́Αδωνις, from אָדﯴן, H123, lord). The Syrian deity of vegetation which wilts under the hot summer sun. He was called tammuzu or dūzi in Akkad.; tammuz in Heb. In Syria and Phoenicia he was known as ’adōnī, from which comes his Gr. name Adonis.
Adonis (ςΑδωνις, prob. from a Phoenician form of the Hebrew אָדוֹן, lord), was, according to Apollodorus (3, 14, 3), the son of Cinyrus and Medane, or, according to other accounts (Hesiod and Panyasis in Apollod. ut sup. 14), of Phoenix and Alphesibcea, or of an Assyrian king, Theias, by his own daughter, Smyrna, who was changed ...
A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ADONIS. a-do'-nis: A name for the Babylonian god TAMMUZ, which see.
Adonis (Baal of the Phenicians) Lexicons. (uh doh' nihss) God of vegetation and fertility with Syrian name meaning, “lord.”. Worshiped in Greece and Syria. Rites seem to include the planting of seeds which quickly produced plants and that just as quickly wilted in the sun.
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In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous and considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
Jul 16, 2011 · But who was Adonis? A mythical figure, or much more? And what does he have to do with Bethlehem and the place where once an Arab gentleman told me Jesus was born.
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