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- Joab (יוֹאָב "The LORD is father," Yoʾav) was a key military leader under King David in the Hebrew Bible in the late eleventh ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- *Ish-boseth (2 Samuel 2-5)—David is anointed king of Judah in Hebron. Saul's son, Ish-bosheth, also called Ishbaal, reigns as Saul's ...37 KB (5,923 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, whose relationship was recorded the Old Testament books of Samuel. Jonathan ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 05:57, 9 July 2023
- Beelzebub, also Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəvûv (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Israel (Hebrew: מַלְכוּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard Hebrew Malkut Yisrael) was the kingdom proclaimed by the Israelite ...28 KB (4,380 words) - 21:30, 6 June 2024
- David (דָּוִד "Beloved," Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian Hebrew Dāwiḏ; Arabic داود Dāʾūd "Beloved"), also ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Saul (or Sha'ul) (Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, meaning "given" or "lent") was the first king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- Haggadah (meaning "tales," "lore"; pl. Haggadot ) refers to non-legally binding texts in classical rabbinic literature, which ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring toward the end of the Book of ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- John Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because it is closely related ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce this name, considering it too ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις—"creation," "beginning," "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. Swahili ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
