Search results for "Aramaic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language ... Allen C. Myers (ed.). "Aramaic," The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- his day. He also translated difficult Hebrew or Aramaic words into the spoken French language of his day, giving latter-day scholars a window into the ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- purposes, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic are used. == History == ===Origins=== The exact historical origins of the Samaritans are controversial ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- a list of seventy (properly ninety) Hebrew (and Aramaic) words which occur in the Bible only once or very rarely, and which may be explained from traditional ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- script) Sanskrit, Prakrit (Brahmi script)Possibly Aramaic ... (in the Kharoshthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- on their faith and the practice of using Syriac/Aramaic. The Kerala Christians of Malabar maintained independence from Rome. The persecution of the Syrian ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- were guided by what became known as an Abba (Aramaic for "Father," from which the term Abbot originates). Within a generation, both solitary ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- called the Gemara. The Gemara was written in the Aramaic language, having been compiled in Babylon. The Mishnah and Gemara together are called the Talmud ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- |fam3=Aramaic |fam4=Brāhmī |fam5=Gupta script |fam6=Siddham |sisters=Eastern Nagari |children=Gujarati |iso15924=Deva }} Devanāgarī ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- because of the feminine gender of the original Aramaic word "spirit." Coptic Christianity also saw the Holy Spirit as the Mother, while regarding ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. She is considered ...24 KB (3,839 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- The language of the Masoretic notes is partly Hebrew and partly Aramaic. The Masoretic annotations are found in various forms: (a) In separate ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- quot; YHWH in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew scripts]] Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- ; another posits that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the ... the ancient Mesopotamian people, speak Aramaic, and are Christian. ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- The Aramaic counterpart of bethûlah was used of married women. The same holds for other cognate languages, "there is in fact no word for ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. In Umayyad times (661-750 C.E.), increasing conversions to Islam among the local population, together ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- these Indic scripts a distant offshoot of the Aramaic alphabet, although there are differing opinions. ===Brahmic Script=== Brahmic scripts are ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- ) and those who spoke Aramaic ( |Acts|1:19 ). Saint Stephen and the other deacons became leaders of the Hellenistic Jewish Christians, while Peter ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- *The Aramaic for "Father, father," that is, an invocation ... *The last words Jesus uttered, in Aramaic, from the Cross ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
