Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- than one hundred of his works, written in Hebrew, made the scholarship of ... Ibn Ezra continues to be recognized as a great Hebrew poet and writer ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The most important and most often written name of God in the Hebrew ... Because the original Hebrew texts only included consonants, the correct ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the first Hebrew writer awarded the prize, which he won jointly with poet Nelly Sachs. He was awarded the Bialik ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Manasseh ben Israel (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and later included ... YHWH!!"—Exodus ch. 15:11). In Hebrew, the first letters of this ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... ==Hebrew Bible== Gehenna is mentioned in the Tanak in several places ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- consequently, the lost Hebrew original is thought to have used an ... wives of the patriarchs according to the Hebrew books called Jubilees suggests ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- most notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Hebrew ... in founding the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (today called ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- Testament (the Septuagint), Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of the book were ... fragmentary texts in Aramaic and one in Hebrew were found at Qumran. ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- often referred to the The Gra—from the Hebrew acronym "Gaon Rabbi ... to translate the works of Euclid into Hebrew. After his death, his primary ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- translation), written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed ... nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- . He is said to have learned to read Hebrew by age three, and by five ... a grant to travel to Italy to examine the Hebrew manuscripts in the great ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian Old Testament. Also known to Jews as the Megillah (Scroll) it is the basis ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- Hannah, also transliterated Chana, (Hebrew: חנה - Grace) was the mother of Samuel, the last of the judges, in the Hebrew Bible. She lived ...9 KB (1,467 words) - 05:00, 25 June 2024
- first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... intervention, he was allowed to study Hebrew and the Talmud with an Orthodox ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- Old Testament but are not present in the Hebrew Bible. The word deuterocanonical ... appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- The Tannaim (Hebrew: he|תנאים , singular tmr|תנא , tanna) were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approx ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the Scroll of Ruth") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Classified ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- works of Greek and Arabic scholarship into Hebrew, making them accessible to ... to translate Aristotle and Averroes into Hebrew. He also produced the first ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
