His hands holding the hat were folded before him in a peaceful, almost priestly way.
"I don't believe you're stupid enough to think fear of retribution is what keeps me within the priestly fold."
That the journalist's translator, a young, middle-class brahmin-a member of Hinduism's priestly caste-also broke bread with the family was perhaps stranger still.
This particular statue, and the papyrus it held, belonged to Anhai, a woman of high rank from a powerful priestly family in the Egyptian New Kingdom, who died in about 1100 BC.
invested with ministerial or priestly functions.
the highest of the four main Hindu castes: the priestly caste.
This cult and its various rites were later extended and given a definite order by the priestly class of the Magi.
The remaining seven tribes now receive their inheritance by lot. But for the tribe of Levi there will be no territorial allotment, for their inheritance is the priestly service of God (13:14;
the latter, as a body, formed one of the Roman priestly colleges.
Acts4:6 As well as Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of high-priestly descent.
The earliest civilized governments were thus priestly governments .
Buddhist monks have no priestly role — they are not intermediaries between God and mankind — and their ordination confers no supernatural powers or authority.
An aged priestly warrior towered up, august and formidable, with his hand upon his dagger.
5In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.
In the Christian Gospel of St Matthew, Mary and the infant Jesus receive a visit from "magi" bearing g magi were a class of priestly scholars in ancient Persia.
invest with ministerial or priestly authority.
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.
The Messiah is our Great High Priest whose priestly duties required His own sacrificial death for our sins.
