Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Jordan River (Arabic: Nahr Al-Urdun; Hebrew: Ha-Yarden River) is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Great Rift Valley into the ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 06:19, 6 May 2024
- Although the existence of the geniza (a Hebrew word meaning a "hiding ... are placed and heretical or disgraced Hebrew writings are stored so as ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- In Jewish folklore, a golem (from the Hebrew "gelem" ((גלם ... The Hebrew word "golem" has been interpreted in multiple ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- given to several parents of sons in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to Zechariah ... ==Annunciation in the Hebrew Bible== The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- Bel and the Dragon does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. Catholic and Orthodox ... chapters of the book not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text. The additions are: ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ... to, Judaism. He rejected the entire Hebrew Bible, and declared that ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- or external evidence of an earlier Hebrew version. A few sections of ... Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by the Jews ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- for idle literate Europeans to integrate Hebrew and Arabic legend and language ... names of God from apocryphal texts and the Hebrew Torah demand that the author ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- of David (known as the Magen David in Hebrew, מָגֵן דָּוִד ... its meaning in the name David itself. In Hebrew spelling (דוד), David ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ... have been fathered by members of a proto-Hebrew pantheon (which causes much ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- quot;Ashkenaz" being the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. They are distinguished from Sephardic Jews, the other main group of European ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century C.E.), usually ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub ... built a heavenly temple for God. Here, the Hebrew term "Beth Zebul" ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The Sadducees (from Hebrew: Tsdoki, צדוקי meaning "High Priest") were a religious and political movement within ancient Judaism ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- ability, and learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. After being home ... After graduation he took up a chair in Hebrew at the Aberdeen Free ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
