Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Joel M. Hoffman, In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language ... *Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... the author of the seventh text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient ... *Thiele, Edwin R. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Kregel ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- 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
- 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
- portion of it was included in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. ... the Book of Daniel was accepted into the Hebrew Bible. Other apocalyptic ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- particularly in Kabbalist circles: the Hebrew language contains mysterious ... and proportion; the excellence of the Hebrew language, which, although sharing ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- in 1892. At college, he studied Irish and Hebrew as well as continuing his ... In 1896 he visited Italy to study the language for a time before returning ...12 KB (2,002 words) - 02:59, 2 May 2024
- The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... "Lamentations" (Greek threnoi / Hebrew qinoth, "dirges" ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
