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  • Because we see this as a word in Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, and Greek, Alexander believes this gives even more strength to this etymology. ...
    18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
  • Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic at Oxford. Pococke attended his classes from 1626-7, learning "the ...
    17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
  • Bauer's Greek English Lexicon of the NT, in Aramaic (שכרא) it means barley beer, from the Akkadian shikaru. This Gospel contains 28 distinct ...
    37 KB (5,220 words) - 04:27, 24 May 2024
  • divine beings most likely comes from the Targumic Aramaic translation, which uses the phrases "sons of nobles," "Bnei Ravrevaya" ...
    22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
  • Nazarene" for the origin of these Hebrew/Aramaic epithets for Jesus. This conclusion is based in part on the prophecy in Matt. 2:23 that says of ...
    20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
  • * Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek (Septuagint and other ... * Targum texts in Aramaic. Given the sacred nature of the Hebrew Bible ...
    67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
  • present with them in the sukkah. Known by the Aramaic word ushpizin, these include: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David. According ...
    19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
  • parallel tradition to that of the Islamic, among Aramaic and Hebrew language scholars, seen in such works as the Hebrew illustrated bibles of the ninth ...
    19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
  • system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic are descended. === Mesoamerica === ...
    22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
  • " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily ...
    42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
  • It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language ... Allen C. Myers (ed.). "Aramaic," The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary ...
    59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
  • his day. He also translated difficult Hebrew or Aramaic words into the spoken French language of his day, giving latter-day scholars a window into the ...
    21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
  • purposes, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic are used. == History == ===Origins=== The exact historical origins of the Samaritans are controversial ...
    22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
  • a list of seventy (properly ninety) Hebrew (and Aramaic) words which occur in the Bible only once or very rarely, and which may be explained from traditional ...
    22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
  • script) Sanskrit, Prakrit (Brahmi script)Possibly Aramaic ... (in the Kharoshthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern ...
    61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
  • on their faith and the practice of using Syriac/Aramaic. The Kerala Christians of Malabar maintained independence from Rome. The persecution of the Syrian ...
    22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
  • were guided by what became known as an Abba (Aramaic for "Father," from which the term Abbot originates). Within a generation, both solitary ...
    25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
  • called the Gemara. The Gemara was written in the Aramaic language, having been compiled in Babylon. The Mishnah and Gemara together are called the Talmud ...
    24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
  • |fam3=Aramaic |fam4=Brāhmī |fam5=Gupta script |fam6=Siddham |sisters=Eastern Nagari |children=Gujarati |iso15924=Deva }} Devanāgarī ...
    27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
  • because of the feminine gender of the original Aramaic word "spirit." Coptic Christianity also saw the Holy Spirit as the Mother, while regarding ...
    27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024

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