Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic Jewish philosophers who attempted to reconcile the Hebrew Scriptures ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- Sea Scrolls with the Septuagint Greek and Hebrew Masoretic texts. ... as "young woman," since the Hebrew term does not specify virginity ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- contains about thirty-five references to the Hebrew Bible, all of which, however, come from the Septuagint translation, an unlikely source for historical ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- by scholars including Buddhism and Hebrew apocryphal texts. ... ===Hebrew tradition=== It has also been suggested by scholars that ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman of high rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- ==Shamash in Canaanite and Hebrew tradition== [[Image:Mb gate tbs.png ... In Canaan, Shemesh (Hebrew: שמש), also Shapesh (Hebrew: שפש ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- of the Skull, which is called in 'Hebrew' Golgotha. (John 19:17) misleadingly labels the name as 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- understanding of rabbinic literature and Hebrew, on the other hand, led professors ... were chanted in German as well as in Hebrew. The sermons, too, were given ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- According to one theory, the Hebrew God Yahweh was originally a tribal ... or "Kainite" derives from the Hebrew Qayin, which is identical ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- Christianity or else to destroy any Hebrew book except the Old Testament ... from the humanist scholar and expert in Hebrew literature, Johann Reuchlin ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 07:19, 5 April 2024
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included in Christianity's Old Testament. It was originally written in a ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- A High Place, (Hebrew bamot or bamah) was a raised altar or hilltop shrine in ancient Israelite and Canaanite times described as existing from ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- in Canaan are inferred by accounts in the Hebrew Bible, which refer to them ... ===Hierogamy in the Hebrew Bible=== Modern scholars such as Joseph ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew title: קֹהֶלֶת (variously ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- A cherub (Hebrew: כרוב, plural כרובים kruvim) is a supernatural entity mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. He was ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- exile. If the name Zerubbabel is Hebrew, it may be a contraction ... language. It could also related to the Hebrew Zərûy Bāvel ( ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- 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
