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- Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק Yiẓḥaq Arabic: إسحٰق, ʾIsḥāq ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- law). They form the core of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. In Christianity, the ... quot; or "Discourses") (The Hebrew names are taken from initial ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خليج العقبة; transliterated: Khalyj al-'Aqabah), in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה אבן גבירול, Š'lomoh 'ibn Gabiyrol)(c. 1021 – c. 1058), a ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- die, Irkalla is similar to Sheol of the Hebrew Bible or Hades of classic ... as the story of the Persephone. The Hebrew concept of Sheol is closely ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- on astronomy and astrology, its original Hebrew still in manuscript form ... in 1325, became one of the earliest Hebrew books to be published (Ferrara ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- The Samaritans speak either Modern Hebrew (in Holon) or Palestinian Arabic (in Nablus) as their mother language. For liturgical purposes, Samaritan ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat HaMachpela, Trans. "Cave of the Double Tombs"), called by Muslims ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the Christian Old Testament), where it holds the honor of being the shortest ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible. Resolution of these ... are separately translated from the Hebrew—and hence independent of ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- Basing his revision on the original Hebrew, Lucian emphasized the need ... Lucian undertook to revise the Septuagint based on the original Hebrew ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- century, has been said to derive from the Hebrew netser, a "shoot" ... In 1962, a Hebrew inscription found in Caesarea, dating to the late ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania, Ward started working with his brother in a ...9 KB (1,289 words) - 17:02, 3 July 2024
- The term Leviathan comes from the old Hebrew name לִוְיָתָן ... Lotan is the Ugaritic orthograph for Hebrew Leviathan. Hadad defeats ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- also spoke Aramaic and most probably also Hebrew, no extant sources record ... , son of Matthias, an ethnic Hebrew, a priest from Jerusalem ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient Jerusalem, succeeding his father Solomon and his grandfather David. He was ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- Assyrians in Nineveh," is the ancient Hebrew equivalent of "once ... quot;Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- From 1648, he was also Regius Professor of Hebrew. 1648 to 1650 and again from ... Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Hebrew has a specific word, betulah, for a virgin, and a more general ... Miraculous but not virginal births appear in Jesus' own Hebrew ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
