Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees. In Hebrew, they are known as the Irin ... Earlier mystical Hebrew sects organized the Watchers into an Archangel ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ... have been fathered by members of a proto-Hebrew pantheon (which causes much ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... In many cases, a person went by both a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- , son of Matthias, an ethnic Hebrew, a priest from Jerusalem ... (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote a seven-volume ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 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
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... the earlier historical books of the Hebrew Bible. Moreover, it served ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... Ibn Barun in the twelfth century compares the Hebrew language with ...25 KB (3,470 words) - 18:48, 24 May 2024
- or external evidence of an earlier Hebrew version. A few sections of ... Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by the Jews ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- contains about thirty-five references to the Hebrew Bible, all of which, however, come from the Septuagint translation, an unlikely source for historical ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... The Ugaritic language is attested in texts from the fourteenth through ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, transliterated: ... The Straits of Tiran (Arabic: مضيق تيران, Hebrew: מיצרי ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ... to, Judaism. He rejected the entire Hebrew Bible, and declared that ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better ... Rashi also wrote an extensive commentary on the Hebrew Bible, completed ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub ... built a heavenly temple for God. Here, the Hebrew term "Beth Zebul" ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... The Akkadian language became the lingua franca of commerce and diplomacy ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה אבן ... his townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- The Sadducees (from Hebrew: Tsdoki, צדוקי meaning "High ... The Hebrew term "Sadducee" derives from "Tsdoki," ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- At the age of 17, she determined to learn Hebrew, writing: “It is ... with them using large cut-out letters in Hebrew that she placed in her window ...18 KB (2,893 words) - 05:01, 25 June 2024
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
