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  • and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to a family of gems that are varieties of the ...
    12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
  • " is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible and throughout the ... in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah. The Hebrew month preceding Rosh Hashanah ...
    13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
  • from notes. Matthew, says Papias, wrote in Hebrew, offering a different, though ... the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted ...
    14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
  • In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ... one [Esau] came out reddish admoni in Hebrew], as hairy as a fur coat ...
    18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
  • in Judaism, and sometimes prayed in Hebrew, as well as in the Spanish ... exiles. Their prayers were said partly in Hebrew and partly in Ladino. They ...
    14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
  • The Hebrew Bible affirms that Job and other righteous men went to ... inferi; in Greek, ᾍδης (Hades); in Hebrew, שאול (Sheol)—is used ...
    14 KB (2,171 words) - 07:40, 25 June 2024
  • "hell" comes from the Germanic language. Originally, "hel" ... (Hades); in Hebrew, שאול (Sheol)—is used in scripture and the ...
    24 KB (3,806 words) - 09:40, 25 June 2024
  • Modern Persian is داریوش (Dariush), in Hebrew דַּרְיָוֵשׁ (Daryawesh) and the ancient Greek sources call him Dareios. Darius ruled ...
    12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
  • giving breath or spirit of God, as the Hebrew word for "spirit" ... Holy Spirit. One issue is its gender. The Hebrew word for "spirit," ...
    27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
  • teaching him at home, and introducing him to the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. On the other hand, his father William, a civil engineer and ...
    13 KB (1,892 words) - 16:43, 13 May 2024
  • tradition suggests that Moses recorded the Hebrew Torah, while Islamic tradition ... Hebrew Bible, recorded in the ancient Hebrew language, is in its original ...
    38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
  • she grew up, she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the ... United States. Having studied Greek and Hebrew in college, she challenged ...
    11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
  • The phrase "son(s) of God" is found in the Hebrew Bible ... was not finally accepted as part of the Hebrew Bible, but that many Christians ...
    22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
  • Deborah, or Dəvora (literally "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in ...
    14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
  • to be the homeland of the Proto-Semitic language family. This language family is thought by many linguists to be the original language of the ...
    10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
  • * In the Rich Text Format specification, 9 is the language code for ... * The first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av are collectively known ...
    22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
  • Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles. Such ambiguous renderings prompted the seventeenth century polymath Thomas ...
    14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
  • spoke Yiddish and German; he soon learned Hebrew and French; and he acquired ... Buber began a German translation of the Hebrew Bible. Buber referred to ...
    16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
  • is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... ; and 3 Enoch (surviving in Hebrew, c. fifth-sixth century ...
    29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
  • time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is not known whether ... prescribing the study of Greek and Hebrew as well as the liberal arts ...
    18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024

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