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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
- The term Leviathan comes from the old Hebrew name לִוְיָתָן ... Lotan is the Ugaritic orthograph for Hebrew Leviathan. Hadad defeats ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- and philosopher. Moshe ben Maimon's Hebrew name is רבי משה בן ... to the Commentary on the Mishnah (Hebrew Fulltext)] *[http://www.sacred ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- The Hebrew word used for bush is seneh (סנה), which refers in particular ... the bush was not consumed in both English and in Hebrew. ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God ... LORD," a rough equivalent to the Hebrew "Adonai." The Hebrew ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... in finding a proper spouse. There are Hebrew prayers of supplication for ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- father was a watchmaker and jeweler. His Hebrew name was Chaim Tzvi. Hasidism ... After receiving a master's degree in Hebrew literature, and his later ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The Samaritans speak either Modern Hebrew (in Holon) or Palestinian Arabic (in Nablus) as their mother language. For liturgical purposes, Samaritan ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, ... Jericho is mentioned in the Jewish Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- The Torah (from Hebrew תּוֹרָה: meaning "teaching," ... The Biblical Hebrew language is sometimes referred to as "the ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- from the morpheme "-isma" in the Greek language. identified with the divinities. Early Hebrew monotheism scriptural representations ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- From 1648, he was also Regius Professor of Hebrew. 1648 to 1650 and again from ... Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר meaning Day of Atonement ... a Gregorian date which falls around the Hebrew date of Yom Kippur. ...20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the ... ; conversely, it could also describe the Hebrew kingdom in 605–586 B.C ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- A Nazirite (also spelled Nazarite) (from Hebrew: נזיר, nazir meaning ... The term "Nazirite" comes from the Hebrew nazir meaning ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- Hugo Odeberg,Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch Or The Hebrew Book Of Enoch (Ktav Pub. ... not being used in place of the Hebrew word for throne. The two words ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- to organize as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC). Shortly ... the first graduating class of rabbis from Hebrew Union College. The more radical ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder ... Shechem first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 12:6–8, which ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק Yiẓḥaq Arabic: إسحٰق, ... of Jacob and Esau, as described in the Hebrew Bible. His story is told ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- law). They form the core of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. In Christianity, the ... quot; or "Discourses") (The Hebrew names are taken from initial ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- biblicus. He became versed in the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin languages. After ... leader who chose to use biblical language—the only language the peasants ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment ... a dead person returned from Gehenna, the Hebrew term for the spiritual world ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- In the Hebrew Bible, Sukkot is called: *“The Feast of Tabernacles ... The word sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York, NY: NYU Press ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the ... the Jews of Palestine who did not speak Hebrew should consider Greek as ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- among Christians over whether or not the Hebrew Bible should be included ... In Tertullian's day, some even considered the God of the Hebrew ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- Nachman of Breslov (Hebrew: נחמן מברסלב), also known as ... seemingly simple "tales" in Hebrew and Yiddish that are filled ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- the tenth century B.C.E. It is known in Hebrew as the Mishkan ( משכן ... sacred tent may once have existed in the Hebrew past, but that the glorious ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- Hebrew has a specific word, betulah, for a virgin, and a more general ... Miraculous but not virginal births appear in Jesus' own Hebrew ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... In the Bible, El was the deity worshiped by the Hebrew patriarchs ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Amos (Hebrew: עָמוֹס—"Burden"—apparently a shortened ... expressive, vivid, and forceful language and style of his writing ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's works were ... at the firm of W.H. Smith, he studied Hebrew and Syriac in his spare time ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- their enemies by their accent, as they said the Hebrew word shibboleth as sibboleth. For rebellion against the Jephthah, 42,000 Ephraimites lost their ...11 KB (1,778 words) - 19:50, 15 August 2022
- Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... Latin authors, then by Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew authors, and beginning in ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection ... Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon excluded from the canon ... as the canonical scriptures of the Hebrew collection, but were of value ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- works were also translated into Hebrew in the 1200s and had a lasting ... e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), his ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- the author of the ninth text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ... date (as late as 200 B.C.E.) based on language and theme of the text, although ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- León taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University ... one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete poems ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament ... His name appears to be derived from the Hebrew stem (hgg), which "means ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Joel M. Hoffman, In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language ... *Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Canaanite and Israelite traditions. The Hebrew patriarch Abraham was said ... Isaac, and Jacob's devotion in the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars have ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient ... *Thiele, Edwin R. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Kregel ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... the author of the seventh text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- century, has been said to derive from the Hebrew netser, a "shoot" ... In 1962, a Hebrew inscription found in Caesarea, dating to the late ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- Assyrians in Nineveh," is the ancient Hebrew equivalent of "once ... quot;Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ... There are six classes of adjectives in the English language: ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- portion of it was included in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. ... the Book of Daniel was accepted into the Hebrew Bible. Other apocalyptic ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- particularly in Kabbalist circles: the Hebrew language contains mysterious ... and proportion; the excellence of the Hebrew language, which, although sharing ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- in 1892. At college, he studied Irish and Hebrew as well as continuing his ... In 1896 he visited Italy to study the language for a time before returning ...12 KB (2,002 words) - 02:59, 2 May 2024
- The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... "Lamentations" (Greek threnoi / Hebrew qinoth, "dirges" ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- sabbaths shall ye number fifty days (Hebrew: hamishshim yom; Greek: πεντή ... / And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks [Hebrew: khag shavuot; Greek: ‘εορτην ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- | Hebrew || ב (Bet) |- | Khmer || ២ |- | Korean || 이 ... Torah. These two expressions are known in Hebrew as שמור וזכור ( ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ... from Moses until his own time. Now a Hebrew classic, it is replete with ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Saccas. He delved into learning the Hebrew language, and although he met ... commentaries on various books of the Hebrew Bible and what would become ...23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
- A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין ... The first instance in the Hebrew Bible of an absolute ruler delegating ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... translation of Rabbi Steinsaltz' Hebrew language translation of and commentary ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- practice of giving a tithe. In English, Greek, and Hebrew, the word “tithe” comes from a derivative of the number “ten.” Cuneiform tablets contain ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- *In the Hebrew alphabet, ה (heh) has numerical value of 5. ... the books were kept), or Humash (חומש, Hebrew for "fifth"). ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ... of polytheism to monotheism, in which the Hebrew God takes on the role of ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- | Hebrew || א (Alef) |- | Khmer || ១ |- | Thai || ๑ |- | prefixes | mono- /haplo- (from Greek) uni- (from Latin) |- | Binary ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- also called The First Book of Moses. In Hebrew, it is known as בראשית ... however, is devoted to stories of the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English language broadsheet ... which began publishing an English language edition in the 1990s as ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- prophets whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Though ... prophet, a representative of the organized Hebrew cult of the day. Koch summarizes ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos ... Sabato—all referring to Saturday. The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of the ... that may be required by a specific language English braille codes the ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ... quot;) does not exist in the modern English language. The holiday is ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- Elijah (Standard Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ Eliyyáhu'), also ... coming messiah. He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew ... a translation into Greek of older Hebrew texts, adding some new material ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- Hagar (Arabic هاجر;, Hajar; Hebrew הָגָר; "Stranger") was an Egyptian-born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- | Hebrew || ו (Vav) |- | Khmer || ៦ |- | Thai || ๖ ... * The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- * According to Rebbenu Bachya, the Hebrew word "Nofech" in Exodus 28:18 means "Emerald," and was the stone on the Ephod representing ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers ... later woven into one longer narrative. Language marking the transition from ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- and his dwelling, the sea, is called yam in the Hebrew Bible. ... preserves a tradition which reflects the Hebrew deity Yahweh's acting ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Andrew (or Andreas) is itself a Greek name. He likely had another Hebrew or Aramaic name but none is recorded for him in the Bible. ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- critical scholars believe the work's language and attitude make it likely ... The original Hebrew title of the book of Proverbs is "Míshlê ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- English Noah (Hebrew: נוֹחַ, Noach; Arabic: نوح, ... patriarchs. His story is contained in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... Given that a common language is essential for good communication and ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- In Hebrew, the incident at Sinai is known as "Chet ha'Egel ... for "Elohim" throughout the Hebrew Bible. The larger context ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to a family of gems that are varieties of the ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- The Ammonites occasionally rebelled against their Hebrew overlords ... was Semitic, closely related to the Hebrew language and the Moabite language. ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- " is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible and throughout the ... in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah. The Hebrew month preceding Rosh Hashanah ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- Irenaeus, that Matthew originally wrote in Hebrew letters, which is thought ... in Greek and is not a translation from Hebrew or Aramaic (Greek primacy ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- from notes. Matthew, says Papias, wrote in Hebrew, offering a different, though ... the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted ...14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ... one [Esau] came out reddish admoni in Hebrew], as hairy as a fur coat ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- The Hebrew Bible affirms that Job and other righteous men went to ... inferi; in Greek, ᾍδης (Hades); in Hebrew, שאול (Sheol)—is used ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- in Judaism, and sometimes prayed in Hebrew, as well as in the Spanish ... exiles. Their prayers were said partly in Hebrew and partly in Ladino. They ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- Modern Persian is داریوش (Dariush), in Hebrew דַּרְיָוֵשׁ (Daryawesh) and the ancient Greek sources call him Dareios. Darius ruled ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- giving breath or spirit of God, as the Hebrew word for "spirit" ... Holy Spirit. One issue is its gender. The Hebrew word for "spirit," ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- teaching him at home, and introducing him to the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. On the other hand, his father William, a civil engineer and ...13 KB (1,851 words) - 18:49, 11 May 2024
- tradition suggests that Moses recorded the Hebrew Torah, while Islamic tradition ... Hebrew Bible, recorded in the ancient Hebrew language, is in its original ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- she grew up, she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the ... United States. Having studied Greek and Hebrew in college, she challenged ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- The phrase "son(s) of God" is found in the Hebrew Bible ... was not finally accepted as part of the Hebrew Bible, but that many Christians ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Deborah, or Dəvora (literally "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- to be the homeland of the Proto-Semitic language family. This language family is thought by many linguists to be the original language of the ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- * In the Rich Text Format specification, 9 is the language code for ... * The first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av are collectively known ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- spoke Yiddish and German; he soon learned Hebrew and French; and he acquired ... Buber began a German translation of the Hebrew Bible. Buber referred to ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles. Such ambiguous renderings prompted the seventeenth century polymath Thomas ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... ; and 3 Enoch (surviving in Hebrew, c. fifth-sixth century ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is not known whether ... prescribing the study of Greek and Hebrew as well as the liberal arts ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- which he discovered while studying the Hebrew scriptures. His earliest ... ) Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language) in Israel. Today, the ... is mentioned in Ugaritic documents, the language of the ancient Canaanites ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... Antiochene Rite. Syriac is the liturgical language, instead of Latin which ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- The Hebrew scriptures contains various allegories, one of the most beautiful being the depiction of the history of Israel as the growth ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- on the fifteenth day of Nisan (on the Hebrew calendar), normally in the ... The verb "pasàch" (Hebrew: פָּסַח) is first mentioned ...28 KB (4,349 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- | Hebrew || ח (Het) |- | Khmer || ៨ |- | Thai || ๘ ... * Shemini Atzeret (Hebrew: "Eighth Day of Assembly") is ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Anat's name is remembered in Hebrew tradition in relation to ... In the Hebrew Bible, the wife of the patriarch Joseph, was named Asenath ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York University ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- rabbi, best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our ... The Responsa of Rabbenu Gershom. New York: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- preserving the authenticity of historical language. In writing Quo Vadis, Sienkiewicz ... Many of Sienkiewicz's works were translated into Hebrew and were ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה, also spelled Halacha) is the collective ... *The commandments specified in the Hebrew Bible, including both the ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- Ephod representing the tribe of Reuben. Modern Hebrew has taken this meaning. In ancient India, certain gems were thought to possess supernatural ...12 KB (1,706 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham (Hebrew: Avraham אַבְרָהָם ... This Supreme Being is referred to in the Hebrew Bible in several ways ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The name may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- lessons in Dutch in exchange for lessons in Hebrew. After graduating ... Williams' career as an author began with A Key into the Language ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה, metzuda, "fortress") is the name for a site of ancient palaces ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- The Song of Solomon (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim ... the Bible (including 20 different English-language translations). Retrieved ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- it is known alternatively as Tel Megiddo (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic ... the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon (Rev ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- * כורכום (kurkum) in Hebrew * Cúrcuma or Palillo (South America) in Spanish * മഞ്ഞള് (manjal) in Malayalam * Куркума ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- access to the Bible in the vernacular language and the right to interpret ... James Version is translated from the Masoretic Hebrew Text. ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- He thus insisted that his son study modern Hebrew in addition to the Talmud ... He taught Hebrew and worked as a translator and choirmaster before ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Solomon or Shlomo (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה; Standard Hebrew: Šəlomo; ... " or "complete," from the Hebrew Shelomoh. The name given ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- and a Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by ... Greek, but in a style patterned on that of Hebrew verse. ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- *The Hebrew prophets as the mediums of God's revelation; ... 2.htm Ikkarim Fulltext, Hebrew] ===General Philosophy Sources=== ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- The Zohar (Hebrew: זהר meaning "Splendor" or "Radiance ... and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit ... Professor Shlomo Dov Goitein of the Hebrew University states that ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: ... of meat” (Arabic) or “house of bread” (Hebrew) Bethlehem, however ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
- to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language. The Cyrillic alphabet, ... excelled. Besides his native Greek language, he was fluent in Latin ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language ... or ess cue ell) Structured Query Language * Pronounced as a combination ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... As with many of the Hebrew prophets, virtually nothing is known of ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- of gold. A similar reference can be found in the Hebrew scriptures, in Job 28:6. Currently, the term sapphire is used for blue and other varieties of ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- he tried to support himself by giving Hebrew lessons, but soon gave up ... Yiddish: פֿאָרװערטס), a Yiddish-language newspaper. After a promising ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- God's rejection of the Jews in language resembling the Christian ... has produced 94 books: the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible and 70 secret works ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ... Copper Scroll is an inventory, written in Hebrew, of treasures—thought by ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- The Hebrew Bible does not assign this level of personification to ... In the Hebrew Bible, the concept of the Devil is not highly developed ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- As a boy, David attended a Hebrew school founded by his father. At ... was during this time that he adopted his Hebrew name Ben-Gurion as he was ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 22:27, 25 January 2024
- |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- adapted the Arabic alphabet to Farsi language and developed the contemporary ... that of the Islamic, among Aramaic and Hebrew language scholars, seen in such ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, among others, from the Hebrew: חסידות ... With yeshivas and and even private religious instruction in Hebrew ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Second edition. Belmont ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. ... began, with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- any society. It was accepted in ancient Hebrew society, in classical China ... Moses, and David, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- to Bacon, Grosseteste knew little Greek or Hebrew and paid slight attention to the works of Aristotle, but was preeminent among his contemporaries ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- and was acquainted with French, Italian, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, Samaritan ... Young was interested in the evolution of language groups, and divided ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... with writing the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which are also known ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
