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- The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew ... the Talmud (from gamar גמר,: Hebrew "[to] complete"; ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ... Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to ... of the commandment." In Biblical Hebrew, however, the word "bar ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- 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
- 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
- His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to ... expositions of Hebrew grammar in the Hebrew language, in which the system ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily ... Jews usually pronounce the word as it is pronounced in Hebrew: "ah ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Nobel Prize for Literature, was the first Hebrew writer awarded the prize ... quot; is one of the most widely translated Hebrew authors. His stories dealt ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 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
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... * Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning A Short History of the Hebrew ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- 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
- 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) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- 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
- 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
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף ... Bible. Their intense interest in the Hebrew language and interpretation of ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- necessitated the study of the ancient Hebrew language in which the Tanakh ... to develop the study of the Hebrew language. He also launched a ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- for Krochmal's own Guide, and other Hebrew literature and Hebrew philosophical ... He was not a prolific writer. Besides some Hebrew essays in periodicals ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- The mezuzah must be handwritten in Hebrew on a special parchment, which ... The rendering of the Hebrew text on the scroll is a matter requiring ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- of Europe, because of the accessibility, language, knowledge and methods that ... practicing and condemning necromancy. The language, execution and format of ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- In Jewish folklore, a golem (from the Hebrew "gelem" ((גלם ... Emet (אמת, 'truth' in the Hebrew language) on the forehead was ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- often used as an exact translation of the Hebrew phrase Sifrut Hazal (ספרות ... Midrash (pl. Midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to a method of ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, or Jibril; Arabic: جبريل; ... The angel Gabriel is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel in the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- quot;Ashkenaz" being the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. They are ... Ashkenaz is a Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. European Jews came ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms are counted among the "Writings ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- The word "Rabbi" is derived from the Hebrew root word רַב ... study, and attendant languages (e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic and in some cases ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called the ... the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language, [http://www.newjewishbooks ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- The Jordan River (Arabic: Nahr Al-Urdun; Hebrew: Ha-Yarden River) ... references to the Jordan in both the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, yet ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 06:19, 6 May 2024
- Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania, Ward started working with his brother in a ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Gideon (Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Gidʻon), also known as Jerubbaal ... deity Baal, while also believing in the Hebrew God Yahweh. ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible. Resolution of these ... There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 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
- 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
- Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better ... Rashi also wrote an extensive commentary on the Hebrew Bible, completed ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 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
- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... The Akkadian language became the lingua franca of commerce and diplomacy ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה אבן ... his townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- The Sadducees (from Hebrew: Tsdoki, צדוקי meaning "High ... The Hebrew term "Sadducee" derives from "Tsdoki," ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- by Professor E.L. Sukenik of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He came across the artifact in a Russian convent collection from the Mount of ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- , Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort, 1837), and other languages. Pierre Corneille produced a poetical paraphrase in French in 1651. ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Basing his revision on the original Hebrew, Lucian emphasized the need ... Lucian undertook to revise the Septuagint based on the original Hebrew ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His ... Exodus. There, he offered sacrifice to the Hebrew God Yahweh and hosted a sacrificial ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- may have originally been written in Aramaic, or the Hebrew, or that it was translated from Aramaic/Hebrew to Greek with corrections based on Mark. Regardless ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- The earliest chronogram in Jewish literature is one found in a Hebrew ... verse, also used chronograms. A number of Hebrew poems were produced in the ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- According to one theory, the Hebrew God Yahweh was originally a tribal ... or "Kainite" derives from the Hebrew Qayin, which is identical ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- contributed to the investigation in sub-language grammar, operator grammar ... to which the Phoenician dialects, with Hebrew, Moabite, and others belong. ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... Bibles, but among the Writings in the Hebrew Bible. Catholic and some ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... translation (around 300 B.C.E.) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- ==Shamash in Canaanite and Hebrew tradition== [[Image:Mb gate tbs.png ... In Canaan, Shemesh (Hebrew: שמש), also Shapesh (Hebrew: שפש ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- well, a good deal of Ainu and Mongolian, and some Hebrew and Syriac. In spite of his great interest in Asian culture, Arthur Waley never traveled ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- A cherub (Hebrew: כרוב, plural כרובים kruvim) is a supernatural ... most English speakers are unfamiliar with Hebrew plural formation, the word ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- in Canaan are inferred by accounts in the Hebrew Bible, which refer to them ... ===Hierogamy in the Hebrew Bible=== Modern scholars such as Joseph ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... #039;s name appears to be derived from the Hebrew stem (hgg), which "means ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- 039;s house every weekend to study the Hebrew language and biblical literature ... At this stage, Eban officially changed his name from Aubrey to the ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... citizens of Judah liberate their slaves of Hebrew birth (43). ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- A High Place, (Hebrew bamot or bamah) was a raised altar or hilltop ... According to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Israelite patriarchs and ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines were usually portrayed as implacable ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- If Q had been written in some other language (for example, Aramaic), ... two documents both correcting Mark's language, adding birth narratives ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. ... are in a previously unknown Semitic language now known as Eblaite. Sumerian ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- exile. If the name Zerubbabel is Hebrew, it may be a contraction ... means "Seed of Babylon" in that language. It could also related to ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- In Hebrew, "a memorial and a name" translates as "yad ... The Hill of Remembrance (Hebrew: Har Hazikaron), a hill on the outskirts ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- that, based on the style of the language, and the fact that the author ... the Septuagint, as opposed to the Hebrew Masoretic Text, which is ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
