“House of David.” In this short phrase, inscribed on a basalt stele discovered in northern Israel in 1993, a long-standing ...

Meaning “listen attentively,” from Old English heorcnian. Used in phrases like “Hark! The herald angels sing,” often in literature, poetry, and historical speech. Meaning “enemy or opponent,” from Old ...

Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names. Body parts would probably have been one of the first things that ancient peoples gave names to, so not only do we find hundreds of ...