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Ihu

1. (loan) (personal name) Jesus.

Kua taka aua tau 490, rere iho ana tētahi anahera ki te whare o tētahi wāhina mea mai ai ko ia hei whaea mō Ihu, Kaiwhakaora o te ao (TH 1/1/1862). / When 490 years had passed, an angel flew down to the house of a virgin to tell her that she would be the mother of Jesus, Saviour of the world.

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