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  • | Hebrew || ב (Bet) |- | Khmer || ២ |- | Korean || 이 ... Torah. These two expressions are known in Hebrew as שמור וזכור ( ...
    19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 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
  • Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ... from Moses until his own time. Now a Hebrew classic, it is replete with ...
    20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
  • Saccas. He delved into learning the Hebrew language, and although he met ... commentaries on various books of the Hebrew Bible and what would become ...
    23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
  • practice of giving a tithe. In English, Greek, and Hebrew, the word “tithe” comes from a derivative of the number “ten.” Cuneiform tablets contain ...
    12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
  • A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין ... The first instance in the Hebrew Bible of an absolute ruler delegating ...
    13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
  • The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... translation of Rabbi Steinsaltz' Hebrew language translation of and commentary ...
    32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
  • *In the Hebrew alphabet, ה (heh) has numerical value of 5. ... the books were kept), or Humash (חומש, Hebrew for "fifth"). ...
    21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
  • written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ... of polytheism to monotheism, in which the Hebrew God takes on the role of ...
    11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
  • | Hebrew || א (Alef) |- | Khmer || ១ |- | Thai || ๑ |- | prefixes | mono- /haplo- (from Greek) uni- (from Latin) |- | Binary ...
    16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
  • The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English language broadsheet ... which began publishing an English language edition in the 1990s as ...
    8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
  • also called The First Book of Moses. In Hebrew, it is known as בראשית ... however, is devoted to stories of the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac ...
    32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
  • Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos ... Sabato—all referring to Saturday. The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the ...
    24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
  • an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of the ... that may be required by a specific language English braille codes the ...
    14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
  • prophets whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Though ... prophet, a representative of the organized Hebrew cult of the day. Koch summarizes ...
    16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
  • In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ... quot;) does not exist in the modern English language. The holiday is ...
    28 KB (4,296 words) - 05:09, 25 June 2024
  • Elijah (Standard Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ Eliyyáhu'), also ... coming messiah. He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged ...
    18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
  • Hagar (Arabic هاجر;, Hajar; Hebrew הָגָר; "Stranger") was an Egyptian-born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the ...
    12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
  • 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew ... a translation into Greek of older Hebrew texts, adding some new material ...
    11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
  • | Hebrew || ו (Vav) |- | Khmer || ៦ |- | Thai || ๖ ... * The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew ...
    19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023

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