Search results for "Hebrew language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew ... the Talmud (from gamar גמר,: Hebrew "[to] complete"; ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ... Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to ... of the commandment." In Biblical Hebrew, however, the word "bar ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, and the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and Hebrew ... local Jewish community. She led a small Hebrew Sunday school for her family ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ... The Hebrew for Truth is Emet. It is composed of three letters: Aleph ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to ... expositions of Hebrew grammar in the Hebrew language, in which the system ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily ... Jews usually pronounce the word as it is pronounced in Hebrew: "ah ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Nobel Prize for Literature, was the first Hebrew writer awarded the prize ... quot; is one of the most widely translated Hebrew authors. His stories dealt ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- translation), written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed ... nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... * Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning A Short History of the Hebrew ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- Testament (the Septuagint), Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of the book were ... fragmentary texts in Aramaic and one in Hebrew were found at Qumran. ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- consequently, the lost Hebrew original is thought to have used an ... wives of the patriarchs according to the Hebrew books called Jubilees suggests ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... According to the Hebrew Bible, pagans once sacrificed their children ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- The Tannaim (Hebrew: he|תנאים , singular tmr|תנא ... ) is the Talmudic Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew root shanah ( ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- Old Testament but are not present in the Hebrew Bible. The word deuterocanonical ... appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ... One God. Due to the ambiguities of the Hebrew language there are multiple ways ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... to Walter Benjamin, he put the Hebrew language in a privileged position ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his ... reconcile apparent contradictions in the Hebrew Bible and was one of the ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
