Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings ...581 bytes (84 words) - 16:27, 30 January 2024
- common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from ...734 bytes (112 words) - 23:56, 4 March 2024
- The word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment." According to kabbalistic tradition, a soul that has not ...720 bytes (110 words) - 16:18, 20 March 2022
- text=Hasidic Judaism (from the Hebrew: חסידות Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement that originated ...928 bytes (131 words) - 16:47, 20 March 2022
- refers to literature written in the Greek language from the earliest texts, dating back to the early Archaic period, until the fourth century ...793 bytes (114 words) - 17:47, 13 November 2021
- While texts are forms of art, circumscribed by language, they are relatable to the reader, the decoder based on our common human experience. Propp ...983 bytes (162 words) - 17:49, 12 May 2023
- 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
- |name = Language phonologies |title = Phonologies of the world's ... * American Sign Language * Arabic ** Modern Standard ** Egyptian ...5 KB (471 words) - 00:38, 18 February 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
- characters commonly used in the English language, and a few European ones. ... * Hebrew character * lead character * main character * player character ...2 KB (332 words) - 16:39, 30 November 2023
