Search results for "Hebrew" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the founder of modern political Zionism. His Hebrew personal name was Binyamin Ze'ev. The Dreyfus Affair convinced Herzl that assimilation ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Amos (Hebrew: עָמוֹס—"Burden"—apparently a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the Lord carries") is one of the ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין, "house of judgment;" plural battei din) is a rabbinical court ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Elijah (Standard Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ Eliyyáhu'), also known as Elias (New Testament Greek: Hλίας), was a ninth-century B.C ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- and Mount Sinai, where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Moses received the ... lies in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, and Syriac texts ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- from that the word "spirit" in Hebrew is of the feminine gender ... observant Jewish Christians who used the Hebrew version of the Jewish scriptures ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 04:36, 24 May 2024
- Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- the Septuagint, as opposed to the Hebrew Masoretic Text, which is noticeable due to several peculiarities and variations present in the Septuagint ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:26, 24 May 2024
- The Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח) comprise roughly 850 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- a Northwest Semitic language, related to Hebrew and Aramaic. However, its ... by the biblical writers to describe the Hebrew deity and translated into ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Bible, also called The First Book of Moses. In Hebrew, it is known as בראשית (B'reshit), after the first words of the text ("in the ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- Marsh labeled this source with the Hebrew letter beth (ב). oracles (Greek: logia) of the Lord in a Hebrew manner of speech." Rather ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- In Hebrew, the incident at Sinai is known as "Chet ha'Egel ... for "Elohim" throughout the Hebrew Bible. The larger context ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament attributed to the prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- and his dwelling, the sea, is called yam in the Hebrew Bible. ... preserves a tradition which reflects the Hebrew deity Yahweh's acting ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- seventh century. The first treatises on Hebrew grammar appeared in the High ... Ibn Barun in the twelfth century compares the Hebrew language with ...25 KB (3,470 words) - 18:48, 24 May 2024
- In Judaism, a Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; Greek: συνέδριον, meaning "sitting together" or "council") is an ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- sabbaths shall ye number fifty days (Hebrew: hamishshim yom; Greek: πεντή ... / And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks [Hebrew: khag shavuot; Greek: ‘εορτην ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
