Jonah or Jonas：is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC. He is the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.
Meaning of The Number 3 in the Bible
The meaning of this number derives from the fact that it is the first of four spiritually perfect numerals (the others being 7, 10 and 12). For example, Jesus rose again after three days he died.
Psalm 23:1-6 King James Version (KJV)
23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.Bush had quote it in his 9/11 address to the nation=>click to the speech
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Protestant：a form of Christian faith and practice which originated with the Protestant Reformation, a movement against what its followers considered to be errors in the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the three major divisions of Christendom, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy：東正教徒
Catholic ：a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Christian： a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
WASP：White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.An informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry
argue about WASP in Stuart little【click！】
fall：1. suddenly go down onto the ground or towards the ground without intending to or by accident
2.often used in place names to mean a very wide waterfall, often made of many separate waterfalls
Fall of man：In Christian theology, the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Cain and Abel ：according to the Book of Genesis, they were two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing Abel. Interpretations of Genesis 4 by ancient and modern commentators have typically assumed that the motives were jealousy and anger
God asks Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" Cain replies, "I know not: am I my brother's keeper?"
the sequence of the god made the world：light > Firmament > Dry Ground > Sun, Moon, Stars > Fish and Birds > Creatures on Land
Noah's Ark：the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from the flood
frag-：broken
fragment：a part broken off or detached
mor-、 mort-：die
ex：mortal、morgue
labor ：the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.
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