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- Galilean Jews, and ten of their names are Aramaic, the other four names are ... his brother James, Boanerges by Jesus (an Aramaic name explained in Mark 3:17 ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- , transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic bar-Tôlmay (תולמי-בר), meaning son of Tolomai ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Gentiles in the holy land at the time of Jesus were Aramaic, Koine Greek, and to a limited extent Hebrew. The original texts of the New Testament books ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- charms. She was well educated and knew Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, and Latin. Some sources report that she was also given a Jewish education and may have ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- Elia del Medigo, a Jewish Averroist, and also read Aramaic manuscripts with him. Del Medigo also translated Judaic manuscripts from Hebrew into Latin ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
- from the root word, shidikh (“match”). The Aramaic translation is sheket (“silence”) implying tranquility or peacefulness. In Judaism it is ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- also called the Twin (Didymus)." The Aramaic Tau'ma: The name "Thomas" itself comes from the Aramaic word for twin: T'oma ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- terms from Greek and/or Latin to Aramaic language.) Aramaic language is believed to have been the native language of Jesus. ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- two-word toponym in B'reshit (Genesis), are in Aramaic, even these are written in the same Hebrew script. ==Books of the Tanakh== ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites ... was produced, translations were made into Aramaic, the language of Jews living ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Jephthah (Heb./Aram. יפתח Yiftach/Yiptha χ ) is a character in the Old Testament who served as one of the judges in Israel for a period of ...11 KB (1,778 words) - 19:50, 15 August 2022
- Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- compared it with French, German, Spanish, and Aramaic translations. He also used the Latin Vulgate, primarily in order to point out passages in which ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University. León was one of the foremost experts in Biblical Studies then and had written ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout ... The Arabic alphabet derives from the Aramaic script (Nabataean), to ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- *extracts from a collection of historical documents in Aramaic, illustrating the fortunes of the community in the reigns of Artaxerxes I, and ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- Fragments of 12 such Aramaic manuscripts have been discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. How much is missing can be guessed from the Stichometry ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- from which it is derived) was borrowed from Aramaic. The word "m-s-g-d" is attested in Aramaic as early as the fifth century B.C.E., and ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- In their original edition, they translated the Aramaic Haggadot into modern Hebrew. Sefer Ha-Aggadah was first published in 1908-1911 in Odessa, Russia ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- name Cephas, meaning "rock," in Aramaic. Peter (Petrus) is simply ... with the linguistic skill expected from an Aramaic-speaking fisherman, who ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
