Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Asherah (Hebrew אשרה), also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest ... been regarded as the female consort to the Hebrew God Yahweh and was widely ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- A yarmulke (Hebrew: יאַרמלקע meaning "cap") is a ... of the King [i.e., God]," or from the Hebrew ya'are me-elohim, "to ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God ... In the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, angels are a spiritual ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... The Hebrew קהלת (Qohelet), the original title for the Book of ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- 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
- 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
- is also the start of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar. It is observed ... meal on Rosh Hashanah. The traditional Hebrew greeting on Rosh Hashanahh ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees. In Hebrew, they are known as the Irin ... Earlier mystical Hebrew sects organized the Watchers into an Archangel ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 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
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... In many cases, a person went by both a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- 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
- , son of Matthias, an ethnic Hebrew, a priest from Jerusalem ... (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote a seven-volume ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- and Mount Sinai, where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Moses received the ... lies in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, and Syriac texts ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... the earlier historical books of the Hebrew Bible. Moreover, it served ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... Ibn Barun in the twelfth century compares the Hebrew language with ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 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
- contains about thirty-five references to the Hebrew Bible, all of which, however, come from the Septuagint translation, an unlikely source for historical ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... The Ugaritic language is attested in texts from the fourteenth through ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, transliterated: ... The Straits of Tiran (Arabic: مضيق تيران, Hebrew: מיצרי ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- 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
