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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Babylonian mythology) The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
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- noun Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools
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November 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm those parametres are: mass/from Sun,a, e, i, OMEGA, pi nebo omega, M to partic. moment T;
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Come nebo me and suso sing the day we sallybright.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Many phonetic catastrophes followed: this is how we lost the -r at the end of mati and s at the end of nebo, to name but a few.
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Kambe: chikosho Keiyo: nterere Kipsigis: laiyo-nebo-soin, laiyonebo-soin (Timbilil) Luhya: mrere msatsa (Busia) Luhya (Bukusu): murere-nalubenga, murere-nalubembe, sitanyamurwe, nalubembe, nalubonga
Chapter 7 1999
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Had it come to this, that men whose very names were invocations of false gods ( 'Nergal protect the king,' 'Nebo delivers me' if we read 'Nebo-shashban,' or 'Be gracious, Nebo,' if Samgar-nebo) should sit close by the temple, and have their talons fixed in the Holy City?
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarse-chim, Rab-saris,
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it grew right up to the heavens (_nebo_).
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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Samgar-nebo, &c., who bore the names of the heathen gods.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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This is no description of a torture chamber, but is instead a tale of the compulsory disinfection that awaits Russia's homeless and alcohol addicted, as depicted in Dmitry Mamuliya's film Another Sky ( "Drugoye nebo").
openDemocracy Mumin Shakirov 2010
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