The Egyptian scribesof a later time called the entire western part of Syria and Palestine "The Canaan.
The Babylonian scribes did not recognize his high-sounding name of Tiglath-pileser, but still called him Pul.
So good opinion have I of the fidelity of the scribesthat they would not willingly adulterate my original, albeit I left divers subscribed blanks with them, I acknowledge both handwriting and ditement.
Behold the lying pen of the scribes has turned it to a fiction.
Mystery centered around it, and the Greek scribes imagined that it was the object of worship.
He summoned the wise men and the skilled scribes of the kingdom to his palace and gave them the following question: "Explain to me this.
The lords, sages, and skilled scribes present, as well as the old king, rose up and confirmed the wise speech of the youthful Kiss Miklos.
The scribes of Jerusalem, followers of Ezra, who were known as "the men of the Great Synagogue," were the collectors of the second and third divisions of the Old Testament.
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
All the year round the skilled scribessat within in rows, with pen and ink, working at the manufacture of books.
These scribes are generally well versed in the Mongol, Thibetian, and sometimes in the Chinese and Mantchou languages.
The scribes keep the registers, and draw up the regulations and orders which the governor Lama promulgates for the good keeping and order of the Lamasery.
Men "have become wise above what is written;" and truly as our Saviour said unto the ancient scribes and pharisees, "they shall receive the greater damnation.
Let us never forget that Jesus Himself has warned us, that except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, we shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
At Doriscus he had held a review of his army, and smiled when the fawning scribes told how one million seven hundred thousand foot and eighty thousand horse followed his banners.
He saw the scribes standing near with parchment and papyrus, inscribing the names of this or that ship which did well or ill in behalf of the lord of the Aryans.
The scribes insert and omit negatives very recklessly, so that the point may remain doubtful.
The scribes often prefix h to parts of the pronoun is, and Goer.
A whole army of scribeswas employed in it, busily engaged in writing and editing old texts.
They were generally in attendance on the sovereign, like the scribes whose offices were continually needed in both peace and war.
The libraries of Babylonia were ransacked for ancient texts, and scribes were kept busily employed at Nineveh in inscribing new editions of older works.
The records are not copies of older texts, with all the errors that human fallibility causes copyists andscribes to make.
The contemporary scribes and merchants of Babylon knew nothing of any King Belshazzar, and they knew even less of any King Darius the Mede.
Everyone was thinking of it, from Pharisees and Scribes downward.
But by this time priests, Pharisees, and scribes understood that, in their sense of the word, a national champion He would never be.
I am come to teach you the fulfilment of the eternal law; not of the law that your scribes and pharisees call the divine law, but of that eternal law which is more immutable than the earth and the heavens.
The wise men or scribes had a twofold activity: on the one hand, to explain the Torah, and on the other, to make the laws applicable both to individual and communal life.
What the prophets had commenced, the scribes ended.
The fact is that the Legend of the Deluge was then already so old in Mesopotamia that the scribes added to or abbreviated the text at will, and treated the incidents recorded in it according to local or popular taste, tradition and prejudice.
He and his scribes made bilingual lists of signs and words and objects of all classes and kinds, all of which are of priceless value to the modern student of the Sumerian and Assyrian languages.
In some cases the same passages of Deuteronomy occur in duplicate on distinct slips, as though the fragments belonged to two contemporary transcriptions made by different scribes from the same original text.
This implies either the employment of two scribes or else an almost incredible skill in the single scribe employed, and in either case it doubles the probability of detection.
Therefore bid thy scribes that it be written down, so that the Hesea who rules after thee may fulfil it in its season.
Go back to the time of Jesus: do you not remember how the people asked whether any of the scribes or the Pharisees believed on him?
Scribes and Pharisees have their seats in her, who lay grievous burdens on the shoulders of men, which themselves will not touch with one of their fingers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scribes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
