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1. Hebrew: Hebrew, a Semitic language originally spoken in the regions now known as Israel and Jordan, serves as the primary language of the Tanakh. As a member of the Canaanite branch of the West Semitic languages, it is closely related to ... [100%] 2023-12-15 [Languages] [Bible]...
2. Hebrew: Hebrew is a language spoken in its modern form in Israel and in its ancient form in which most of the Jewish religious (biblical and rabbinical) texts are written. Hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Aramaic and Arabic. [100%] 2023-02-18 [Semitic Languages] [Judaism]...
3. Hebrew Bible: The Hebrew Bible is a comparatively recent term used by scholars and academics in Jewish studies to describe the works of the ancient Hebrews that came to be accepted as the scriptures of Judaism. The study of the Hebrew Bible ... [70%] 2023-07-03
4. Modern Hebrew: Modern Hebrew (Hebrew: עברית חדשה‎, ʿivrít ḥadašá, [ivˈʁit χadaˈʃa], lit. "Modern Hebrew" or "New Hebrew"), also known as Israeli Hebrew or Israeli, and generally referred to by speakers simply as Hebrew (עברית Ivrit), is the form of the Hebrew language that was revived as ... (Social) [70%] 2023-12-19 [Subject–verb–object languages]
5. Commentaries, Hebrew: COMMENTARIES, HEBREW he'-broo: $ 1. Philo Judaeus$ $ 2. Targum$ $ 3. Midrash$ $ 4. Talmud$ $ 5. Karaites$ $ 6. Middle Ages$ (1) Saadia ben Joseph (2) Rashi (3) Joseph Kara (4) Abraham ibn Ezra (5) Qimchis (6) Maimonides (7) Maimunists (8) Kabbalists (9 ... [70%] 1915-01-01
6. Medieval Hebrew: Medieval Hebrew was a literary and liturgical language that existed between the 4th and 19th century. It was not commonly used as a spoken language, but mainly in written form by rabbis, scholars and poets. (Social) [70%] 2023-12-17 [Medieval languages]
7. Hebrew alphabet: The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אלףבית) is a set of characters primarily used to write Hebrew and Yiddish languages. The present day alphabet is based on the old Aramaic alphabet, which in turn was based on the Phoenician alphabet. [70%] 2023-03-06 [Alphabets] [Judaism]...
8. Hebrew calendar: The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized: HaLuah HaIvri), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such ... (Lunisolar calendar used for Jewish religious observances) [70%] 2023-12-18 [Hebrew calendar] [Lunisolar calendars]...
9. Hebrew republic: The Hebrew Republic, also “De Republica Hebraeorum”, and also “Respublica Hebraeorum”, is an early modern concept in political theory in which Christian scholars regarded the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution framing a perfect and republican government designed by God ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-12-19 [Political philosophy]
10. Dictionaries, Hebrew: The earliest known work giving a lexical survey of part of the Hebrew language, with comments, is the dictionary of Biblical proper names (Ερμενεία Εβραικῶν ΟΝομάτων) ascribed to Philo of Alexandria, and in any case the work of a Greek Jew. Origen, in ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Ancient Hebrew: Ancient Hebrew, also known as Biblical Hebrew or Classical Hebrew, is the original language of the Torah, the religious text of Judaism. This text was later appropriated by Christians as the Old Testament. [70%] 2023-12-17 [Hebrew]
12. Hebrew Language: The designation "Hebrew language" for the language in which are written the Old Testament (with the exception of Ezra iv., part of the Apocryphal and pseudepigraphic writings, and the greatest part of later Jewish literature, is first found in Hellenistic ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Hebrew language: Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית, Ivrit) is the modern vernacular of Israel. It may also refer to any of several related spoken and written dialects that were in use by Jews and Samaritans since Biblical times, any of which classify as a Canaanite ... [70%] 2023-07-11
14. Hebrew numerals: The system of Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The system was adapted from that of the Greek numerals sometime between 200 and 78 BCE, the latter being the date ... (Numeral system using letters of the Hebrew alphabet) [70%] 2023-11-04 [Numerals]
15. Hebrew Israelites: The Hebrew Israelites are a heretical religious group that erroneously claims that African Americans are the descendants of the ancient Israelites. At the end of the 19th century, Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, after supposedly receiving revelations from God ... [70%] 2023-02-19 [Cults] [Heresies]...
16. Hebrew Roots: The Hebrew Roots Movement (HRM) is a syncretic religious movement that advocates adherence to the Torah and believe that Jesus, whom they often refer to by the Hebrew name Yeshua, is the Messiah. The movement emphasizes and promotes the belief ... (Biblical religious movement) [70%] 2024-01-26 [Jewish Christianity] [Christianity in the United States]...
17. Hebrew language: Hebrew (Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית‎, ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ivˈʁit] or [ʕivˈriθ] ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ‎ ʿÎbrit; Paleo-Hebrew script: 𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in ... (Northwest Semitic language) [70%] 2024-01-26 [Hebrew language] [Canaanite languages]...
18. Tiberian Hebrew: Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. (Social) [70%] 2023-11-30 [Medieval languages] [Extinct languages of Asia]...
19. Hebrew birthday: A Hebrew birthday (also known as a Jewish birthday) is the date on which a person is born according to the Hebrew calendar. This is important for Jews, particularly when calculating the correct date for day of birth, day of ... [70%] 2023-09-30 [Birthdays] [Jewish traditions]...
20. Literature, Hebrew: Under this designation may be comprised all the works written by Jews in the Hebrew and the Aramaic tongue. Works written in Hebrew by non-Jews are too few to require consideration here. The term "Jewish literature" should be used ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
21. Hebrew language: The Hebrew language is a Northwest Semitic language that belongs to the Afroasiatic language family. The Israelites and their descendants, the Judeans and the Samaritans, are thought to have spoken it at some point in history, and it is considered ... [70%] 2023-12-20 [Hebrew language] [Canaanite languages]...
22. Hebrew Roots: The Hebrew Roots Movement (HRM) is a syncretic religious movement that advocates adherence to the Torah and believe that Jesus, whom they often refer to by the Hebrew name Yeshua, is the Messiah. The movement emphasizes and promotes the belief ... (Biblical religious movement) [70%] 2023-12-25 [Jewish Christianity] [Christianity in the United States]...
23. Hebrew language: Hebrew (Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית, ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ivˈʁit] (listen) or [ʕivˈrit] (listen); Samaritan script: ࠏࠁࠓࠉࠕ‎; Paleo-Hebrew script: 𐤏𐤁𐤓‫𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. It was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a spoken ... (Social) [70%] 2023-12-12 [Fusional languages] [Verb–subject–object languages]...
24. Hebrew Language: HEBREW LANGUAGE See LANGUAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; ARAMAIC. See LANGUAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; ARAMAIC. [70%] 1915-01-01
25. Poetry, Hebrew: POETRY, HEBREW po'-et-ri: I. IS THERE POETRY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? Poetry Defined: 1. In Matter, Concrete and Imaginative 2. In Form, Emotional and Rhythmical II. NEGLECT OF HEBREW POETRY: CAUSES III. CHARACTERISTICS OF HEBREW POETRY, EXTERNAL AND ... [70%] 1915-01-01
26. Hebrew punctuation: Hebrew punctuation is similar to that of English and other Western languages, Modern Hebrew having imported additional punctuation marks from these languages in order to avoid the ambiguities sometimes occasioned by the relative paucity of such symbols in Biblical Hebrew ... (Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time) [70%] 2023-11-14 [Hebrew alphabet] [Modern Hebrew]...
27. Hebrew birthday: A Hebrew birthday (also known as a Jewish birthday) is the date on which a person is born according to the Hebrew calendar. This is important for Jews, particularly when calculating the correct date for day of birth, day of ... (History) [70%] 2023-09-04 [Hebrew calendar]
28. Hebrew Academy: Hebrew Academy may refer to. [70%] 2023-12-12 [Jewish schools]
29. Hebrew Roots: Hebrew Roots is a contemporary Christian religious movement that advocates the return and adherence to first century Christian faith and obedience to the Torah. They refer to Jesus as Yeshua, his Hebrew name. [70%] 2023-12-20 [Christianity] [Organizations]...
30. Hebrew Language: The name “Hebrew” is derived, through the Greek Ἑβραῖος, from ‘ibhray, the Aramaic equivalent of the Old Testament word ‘ibhrī, denoting the people who commonly spoke of themselves as Israel or Children of Israel from the name of their common ancestor (see ... [70%] 2022-09-02
31. Ori (Hebrew): Ori is a Hebrew given name, for males and females (though more common for males) which means "my light”. Also a name from the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah chapter 60). (Hebrew) [70%] 2023-08-29 [Hebrew-language names]