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- Naphtali
Jacob's son through Bilhah; Rachel names him amid her rivalry with Leah, and Jacob's testament compares him to a doe let loose. - Narthex
The entrance space leads from the outside into the nave. Certain introductory rites and prayers are also held here. - Narthex
The entrance provides room to gather before entering the nave. Its size and use vary by parish. - Nathan the prophet
Prophet who brings God's promise and confronts David. - Nations come to the light with gifts
The magi's gifts and journey recall Isaiah's vision of nations approaching the light of restored Zion. - Nave
The faithful gather in the nave to pray, hear Scripture, and share in the Church's worship. Processions and many sacramental rites also take place in this central space. - Nave
The congregation gathers in the nave for Mass and other prayer. The arrangement supports seeing, hearing, and participating together. - Nebuchadnezzar II
Babylonian king associated with Jerusalem's conquest. - Nehemiah
Nehemiah brings wall-building, political opposition, debt, public Torah reading, and contested reform into one restoration narrative. Its last chapter resists the impression that one successful building project… - Nehemiah
Governor who rebuilds Jerusalem's walls and leads reform. - Nehemiah confronts debt and loss of family land
Families complain of hunger, pledged fields, taxation, and children entering servitude. Nehemiah confronts local elites and calls for property and charges to be restored. - Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem's walls
Nehemiah organizes wall rebuilding and communal reform under Persian rule. - Nestorian division
Orthodox Christology follows Cyril and Ephesus in confessing one incarnate subject, the eternal Son, while preserving the reality of divine and human natures. - New Testament writings circulate
Gospels, apostolic letters, Acts, and Revelation arise and circulate across communities before the canon's later formal recognition. - New York's Saint Nicholas church building is completed
The new Saint Nicholas church is constructed under Alexander Hotovitzky's leadership, providing a larger home for a diverse Orthodox congregation. - Nicaea
Nicaea hosted two different ecumenical councils: the first in 325, addressing the Son's relation to the Father and church order, and the seventh in 787, addressing sacred images. A council city is not automatically a… - Nicaea I — First Ecumenical Council
Nicaea confesses the Son as true God, of one essence with the Father, against Arian subordination. - Nicaea I, canon 4: provincial ordination
The council's fourth canon calls for a bishop to be appointed by the bishops of the province, or at least three with written consent from absent bishops, subject to metropolitan confirmation. It shows public,… - Nicaea II — Seventh Ecumenical Council
Nicaea II distinguishes veneration of icons from worship due to God alone and affirms icons within incarnational faith. - Nicaea II: the actual decree
The decree receives holy images and distinguishes honorific reverence from divine adoration. - Nicholas Cabasilas explains sacramental life and the liturgy
Cabasilas explains Christian life through the sacraments and the Divine Liturgy. His two best-known works connect participation in Christ with the Church's worship and the cultivation of virtue. - Nicholas Kasatkin arrives in Hakodate
Nicholas arrives as priest of the Russian consulate's church and begins sustained study of Japanese language and culture. - Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Athonite editor, translator, and spiritual writer whose work helped circulate the Philokalia and other ascetical, liturgical, and canonical texts. - Nikon's liturgical reforms and the Old Believer rupture
Patriarch Nikon began changing Russian liturgical practices to align them with contemporary Greek usage; resistance developed into a lasting rupture involving the Old Believers. - No other Savior; no other saving name
Isaiah reserves saving identity to Yahweh; Peter proclaims Jesus’ name as the unique means of salvation. Acts does not explicitly quote Isaiah 43 here. - Noah
The flood survivor with whom God makes a covenant. - Noah and the flood
The flood story presents judgment, preservation, and God's covenant with Noah and living creatures. - Nor the Son, but only the Father
Jesus expressly differentiates the Son’s knowledge of the day and hour from the Father’s. The surrounding passage still depicts the Son of Man coming in glory and sending angels. - Numbers
Numbers alternates censuses, laws, journeys, and crises as Israel moves toward the land. The wilderness becomes a place of provision and blessing, but also of resistance, contested leadership, and a generational… - Obadiah
Obadiah is a short prophetic indictment of Edom's pride and conduct toward Judah in catastrophe. Its movement from a particular neighboring conflict to the day of the Lord challenges the assumption that a rival's… - Obadiah
Prophetic book against Edom; its author's setting is debated. - Obadiah: judgment on Edom
Obadiah condemns Edom's violence and announces the Lord's sovereignty over the nations. - OCA's 21st All-American Council
The Orthodox Church in America held its 21st All-American Council in Phoenix, illustrating continuing local conciliar governance. - Offering and Ash
Genesis 22:11–14 records that Abraham is stopped from harming Isaac and offers a ram instead. The darkened stone and ash are illustrative traces of a burnt offering, not details of preserved remains or a claim that… - Old rites vindicated
The Russian Orthodox Church's Local Council lifted the earlier condemnations of the old Russian rites. The decision removed an important obstacle in relations with Old Believers. - Omri
Northern king who establishes Samaria as capital. - One and Incomparable: The Controlling Baseline
Qur'an 112 declares God one, self-sufficient, unbegotten, and without an equal. Qur'an 42:11 says that nothing is like Him while immediately predicating hearing and sight of Him. Muslim theologians therefore treat… - One God, one Lord
Within an anti-idolatry discussion, Paul names the Father as one God and Jesus as one Lord, assigning all things’ origin to the Father and mediation to Christ. - One like a son of man
A human-like figure receives an everlasting kingdom in heaven's court. - One night — garden, arrest, hearings
John 18:1 leads from the farewell discourse to a garden across the Kidron, followed by arrest and hearings before Annas and Caiaphas. The Synoptics connect supper with the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane. Narrative…