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Ananias
[ an-uh-nahy-uhs ]
noun
- (in the Bible) a man who was struck dead for lying.
- a chronic liar.
Ananias
/ ˌænəˈnaɪəs /
noun
- New Testament a Jewish Christian of Jerusalem who was struck dead for lying (Acts 5)
- a liar
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Then I went up to the Torre Ananias, up to the lantern story where the keeper was looking over the sea and brooding.
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He felt that the tolerance of Ebenezer and the acceptance of Ananias-and-Sapphira added distinctly to his prestige.
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Such was the alarming proportion which the insurrectionary movement by Eleazar ben Ananias had assumed.
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Eleazar ben Ananias, gives the first impulse to the uprising against Rome; leader of the Zealots, 256, 270.
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Ananias-and-Sapphira, using beak and claws, scrambled nimbly to the other shoulder.
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