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  • quot;Ashkenaz" being the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. They are ... Ashkenaz is a Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. European Jews came ...
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  • 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
  • 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. ...
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  • 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

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