Definition that contains old testament
- lot (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
- job a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- job a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- david (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
- michael (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
- sarah (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac
- numbers the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
- daniel (Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
- daniel an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
- adam (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race