Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, and the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and Hebrew ... local Jewish community. She led a small Hebrew Sunday school for her family ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or shortly after) his thirteenth ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ... speaking audiences, albeit he also knew some Hebrew and Greek. ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew (to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- TaNaK (Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh, is an acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the initial Hebrew letters (T + N + K) of each of the text ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- and its laws, but reject the rest of the Hebrew Bible. In the Bible, the ... which is believed to be an ancient form of Hebrew, the Samaritan Pentateuch ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ... The Hebrew for Truth is Emet. It is composed of three letters: Aleph ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily," Arabic آمين ’Āmīn) is a declaration of positive affirmation ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency" The word "Gaon" meant "pride" or "splendour ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- than one hundred of his works, written in Hebrew, made the scholarship of ... Ibn Ezra continues to be recognized as a great Hebrew poet and writer ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The most important and most often written name of God in the Hebrew ... Because the original Hebrew texts only included consonants, the correct ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the first Hebrew writer awarded the prize, which he won jointly with poet Nelly Sachs. He was awarded the Bialik ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Manasseh ben Israel (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- 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
- The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... ==Hebrew Bible== Gehenna is mentioned in the Tanak in several places ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- Testament (the Septuagint), Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of the book were ... fragmentary texts in Aramaic and one in Hebrew were found at Qumran. ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- often referred to the The Gra—from the Hebrew acronym "Gaon Rabbi ... to translate the works of Euclid into Hebrew. After his death, his primary ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- translation), written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed ... nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
