Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- consequently, the lost Hebrew original is thought to have used an ... wives of the patriarchs according to the Hebrew books called Jubilees suggests ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... According to the Hebrew Bible, pagans once sacrificed their children ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- The Tannaim (Hebrew: he|תנאים , singular tmr|תנא ... ) is the Talmudic Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew root shanah ( ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- Old Testament but are not present in the Hebrew Bible. The word deuterocanonical ... appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ... One God. Due to the ambiguities of the Hebrew language there are multiple ways ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... to Walter Benjamin, he put the Hebrew language in a privileged position ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his ... reconcile apparent contradictions in the Hebrew Bible and was one of the ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- In the biblical story of Samson, it is a temple of Dagon which the ... Dagon's name appears in Hebrew as דגון (transcribed Dagon ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- means "fiery" or "burning" in Hebrew. Shortly later he was ordained a hierodeacon. He was ordained again in 1793, this time as a ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- . He is said to have learned to read Hebrew by age three, and by five ... a grant to travel to Italy to examine the Hebrew manuscripts in the great ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- most notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Hebrew ... in founding the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (today called ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Later Naomi plans to find a new husband for Ruth. According to Hebrew ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ... Yehuda's wife, the reviver of the Hebrew language. ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- works of Greek and Arabic scholarship into Hebrew, making them accessible to ... to translate Aristotle and Averroes into Hebrew. He also produced the first ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Habakkuk or Havakuk (Hebrew: חֲבַקּוּק, Standard ... ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and later included ... YHWH!!"—Exodus ch. 15:11). In Hebrew, the first letters of this ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- ability, and learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. After being home ... published his next Britannica article, Hebrew Language and Literature, in which ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- the earliest known reference to the Hebrew god Yahweh as the national ... With very few variations, the Moabite language of the inscription ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... of the Skull, which is called in 'Hebrew' Golgotha. (John 19:17) ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
