Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania, Ward started working with his brother in a ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- 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
- Malachi (מַלְאָכִי, Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to be written by ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- Canaanite and Israelite traditions. The Hebrew patriarch Abraham was said ... Isaac, and Jacob's devotion in the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars have ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon excluded from the canon ... as the canonical scriptures of the Hebrew collection, but were of value ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- Midrash (מדרש; plural midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can also refer to ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Sukkot is called: *“The Feast of Tabernacles ... The word sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, one of the twelve minor prophets whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- #039;s house every weekend to study the Hebrew language and biblical literature ... At this stage, Eban officially changed his name from Aubrey to the ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the Prince") (135 – 220 C.E.), was a key leader of the Jewish community ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
