Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the ... the Jews of Palestine who did not speak Hebrew should consider Greek as ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- among Christians over whether or not the Hebrew Bible should be included ... In Tertullian's day, some even considered the God of the Hebrew ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- ) 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
- Nachman of Breslov (Hebrew: נחמן מברסלב), also known as ... seemingly simple "tales" in Hebrew and Yiddish that are filled ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- 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
- the tenth century B.C.E. It is known in Hebrew as the Mishkan ( משכן ... sacred tent may once have existed in the Hebrew past, but that the glorious ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- Amos (Hebrew: עָמוֹס—"Burden"—apparently a shortened ... expressive, vivid, and forceful language and style of his writing ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... In the Bible, El was the deity worshiped by the Hebrew patriarchs ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's works were ... at the firm of W.H. Smith, he studied Hebrew and Syriac in his spare time ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- their enemies by their accent, as they said the Hebrew word shibboleth as sibboleth. For rebellion against the Jephthah, 42,000 Ephraimites lost their ...11 KB (1,778 words) - 19:50, 15 August 2022
- Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... Latin authors, then by Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew authors, and beginning in ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection ... Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- works were also translated into Hebrew in the 1200s and had a lasting ... e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), his ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- León taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University ... one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete poems ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- the author of the ninth text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ... date (as late as 200 B.C.E.) based on language and theme of the text, although ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- 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
- semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ... There are six classes of adjectives in the English language: ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament ... His name appears to be derived from the Hebrew stem (hgg), which "means ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
