Search results for "Biblical Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- mountains have been identified as this biblical site. In the first few centuries ... adjacent to Mount Catherine, to be the biblical mountain, ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- the Israelites and are depicted in the biblical narratives as supporting ... of Moses and mother of his two sons. The biblical heroine Jael, who slew the ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף ... name "Saadia" is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך ... The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stand for melek or “the ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... differ significantly from that of the Hebrew Bible and most Protestant ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- (Ch. 6) and are mentioned also in other biblical texts and in some non-canonical ... The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... called Abram. Like several other great biblical women, Sarai could not have ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- is an apocryphal book written in Hebrew c. 180–175 B.C.E., attributed ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- in the mythology of many cultures. The biblical monster Leviathan is seen ... In the Biblical tradition, the polytheistic mythologies of the sky ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- early Jewish writers have interpreted the Biblical narrative of Ham in a racial ... Some Biblical scholars see the "curse of Ham" story as an ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... " is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible and throughout the ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- seems to be a flagrant misread of the biblical texts. In the Hebraic mindset ... for idle literate Europeans to integrate Hebrew and Arabic legend and language ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible. Resolution of these ... Gospel harmonies are valuable in studies of biblical texts, since ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- the Middle Ages in Babylonia. However, the Hebrew Bible indicates that the ... The most famous Hebrew singer of psalms was King David, although his ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder ... The old city of Shechem dates back even before biblical times, to ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- scriptural texts that fall outside of the Biblical canon. However, given that ... with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon excluded from the canon ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
