Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- . 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
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian Old Testament. Also known to Jews as the Megillah (Scroll) it is the basis ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... intervention, he was allowed to study Hebrew and the Talmud with an Orthodox ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 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
- The Tannaim (Hebrew: he|תנאים , singular tmr|תנא , tanna) were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approx ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the Scroll of Ruth") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Classified ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- 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 Ḥavaqquq Tiberian Ḥăḇaqqûq ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ritual practice, and one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people. ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 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
- 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
- Rashbam (רשב"ם) is a Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Shmuel ben Meir (c. 1085 - c. 1158). He was the grandson and student of the great Jewish ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- 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
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- is an apocryphal book written in Hebrew c. 180–175 B.C.E., attributed to Yeshua/Jesus ben Sira (born c. 170). Although it was not accepted ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, ... *Jehovah (from a transliterated Hebrew construction in the Old Testament; ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- Gideon (Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Gidʻon), also known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He was the son of ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- the earliest known reference to the Hebrew god Yahweh as the national ... much in common with an early form of Hebrew, known as Biblical Hebrew ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The term originally meant "songs sung to a harp, ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
