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  • Habbakuk 3:7—Midian is not mentioned again in the Hebrew Bible. The apocryphal Book of Judith (2:26) uses the term "Midianites" as a synonym ...
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  • students were well-versed in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew; Phi, Beta, and Kappa were the initials of a secret Greek motto, Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs ...
    30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
  • area. The stories in Exodus of Moses leading the Hebrew people out of Egypt to wander 40 years in the desert, the manna falling from heaven and Moses ...
    12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
  • The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," or in Arabic "Dawlat Isrā'īl") is a country in the Southwest ...
    69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
  • The family spoke Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian at home, and Peres learned ... French, English, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew, although he never lost his ...
    47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
  • about, Jewish activities, celebrations, and the Hebrew language. Jewish educators and community leaders began building and promoting Jewish summer ...
    14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
  • either as "The West Bank or as Judea (Hebrew: "Yehuda" "יהודה ... Languages in use are Arabic and Hebrew corresponding to ethnic affiliation; ...
    51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
  • * Thiele, Edwin R. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Kregel Academic & Professional; Reprint edition, 1994. ISBN 082543825X ...
    13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
  • * Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, and Chaim N. Denburg. Code of Hebrew Law. Shulhan 'aruk. Montreal: Jurisprudence Press, 1954. 1098233 ...
    13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
  • Dead Sea turned red. Researchers from Hebrew University found the Dead ... |left|250px|The name of the Dead Sea in Hebrew means "sea of ...
    24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
  • Ashkenazi and Sephardi Hebrew may commonly ignore he|א ... in the first syllable, but in the original Hebrew and Arabic forms they actually ...
    43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
  • impact of Egypt upon the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, which continues to ... in their midst. Egypt may have influenced Hebrew writing, while Egyptian understanding ...
    44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
  • the rest of Europe. However, it was the ca. 1250 Hebrew translation attributed to Rabbi Joel that became the source (via a subsequent Latin version done ...
    24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
  • The Hebrew Bible and Talmud mention the practice of paying a bride price to the father of a minor girl. Exodus 22:16-17 says: If a man seduces ...
    14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
  • [[Image:Yahrtzeit candle.JPG|thumb|A yahrtzeit candle, lit on the ... of their death according to the Hebrew calendar, when a 24-hour ...
    26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
  • in nearby Youngstown, Ohio. He also learned Hebrew and Greek. Educating the young mind and preaching the gospel were McGuffey's passions ...
    14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
  • followed the 1920 announcement that the Hebrew patriarchs (such as Abraham ... the year corresponding to Nisan 14 on the Hebrew calendar. ...
    37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
  • to Freud, Moses was an Egyptian (not a Hebrew) close to Akhenaten. His “slowness of speech” could be explained by his not being a native ...
    35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
  • large yellow underwing, the nutmeg, setaceous Hebrew character, and turnip moth. ==History, cultivation, and consumption== [[Image:Rhubarb07 ...
    14 KB (2,051 words) - 09:17, 10 August 2022
  • that she despairs of Jacob's marrying a non-Hebrew girl, as Esau did (Gen 27:46). ==Death and burial== [[File:Israel Hebron Cave of the Patriarchs ...
    13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022

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