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- While the term ''Semite'' means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including Akkadians, Can The word "Semitic" is an adjective derived from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bi5 KB (661 words) - 02:36, 13 December 2020
- ...ncient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language Akkadian]-speaking Semitic state and cultural region based in central-southern [[Mesopotamia]] (presen ...Assyria), but by the time Babylon was founded this was no longer a spoken language, having been wholly subsumed by Akkadian. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian4 KB (557 words) - 19:16, 26 January 2016
- ...n to the ancient non-Semitic inhabitants of [[Mesopotamia]], Sumer, by the Semitic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire Akkadians]. The Sumerians re ...le who spoke the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language Sumerian language] (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc., as evid7 KB (1,027 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...earlier [[Semitic]] [[origin]]. All of these peoples spoke the [[Greek]] [[language]]. It was a great [[surprise]] to [[the apostles]] and [[evangelists]] to [2 KB (341 words) - 22:57, 12 December 2020
- ...ents]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme phoneme] in a [[spoken]] [[language]], either as it exists now or as it was in the [[past]]. There are other [[ ...are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille Braille], fingerspelling (Sign language), and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code Morse code].[https://en.wik4 KB (584 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
- ...[[Arabic language|Arabic]] is ''[[salaam]]'' and ''sälam'' in [[Ethiopian Semitic languages]]. ...n]]-[[lamedh|lamed]]-[[mem]] (ש.ל.ם), which has cognates in many [[Semitic language]]s, came to be connected with concepts of ''completeness'', ''fulfilment'',5 KB (720 words) - 02:03, 5 September 2009
- *1.one of an [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic] people that formed the [[dominant]] element in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w ...Semitic [[language]] of the Chaldeans, Aramaic being used as an auxiliary language.7 KB (1,031 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
- ...nd other [[environments]] where many people may not be familiar with the [[language]] of the place they are in, as well as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabi ...l refers to head of cattle) to logographic (an icon of a bull denoting the Semitic word ʾālep "ox"), to phonetic (the bull's head used as a symbol in rebus3 KB (493 words) - 00:00, 13 December 2020
- The '''Kenites''' or '''Kainites''' (in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], '''''Kainim'''''), the children of [[Cain]], were a tribe of the ...n<ref>George Aaron Barton (1859 - 1942), US Bible scholar and professor of Semitic languages. [https://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/bartonga.html on6 KB (873 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- .... In Islam she is the mother of the Prophet Jesus, Issa عيسى in the Arabic language. ...a Maryam (Arabic: سورة مريم, Sūratu Maryam. It is named after Maryām, the Semitic name for Mary, Mother of Jesus (Issa).3 KB (529 words) - 01:23, 13 December 2020
- ...s been suggested for a handful of known Philistine words (See [[Philistine language]]). ....com/index.php?search=Philistine&searchmode=none Etymology Online] cf. the semitic root ''Pelesh'' (פלש) which means ''to divide, go through, to roll in, c16 KB (2,335 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...he most [[influential]] group of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semite Semitic peoples], and they happened to occupy a peculiarly [[strategic]] [[geograph 121:2.4 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece] provided a [[language]] and a [[culture]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Rome] buil9 KB (1,397 words) - 23:03, 12 December 2020
- ...lmun]]. The Sumerian language, though virtually lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in common with the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar5 KB (814 words) - 18:50, 26 January 2016
- peculiar writing system originating in ''Dilmun''. The Sumerian language, though virtually lost to the world, was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages Semitic]; it had much in common with the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A6 KB (917 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
- ...irtually lost to the world, was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic]; it had much in common with the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I9 KB (1,409 words) - 23:38, 12 December 2020
- The English-language [[King James Version]] of 1611 followed the lead of the Luther Bible in usi ..., the Slavonic [[Book of Enoch|Enoch]] goes back undoubtedly in parts to a Semitic original, though most of it may have been written by a Greek Jew in Egypt.)18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:40, 12 December 2020
- '''ʾĒl''' (written aleph-lamed, i.e. אל, etc.) is the Northwest Semitic word for "deity", cognate to Akkadian ilum. Cognate forms are found throughout the Semitic languages. They include Ugaritic ʾil, pl. ʾlm; Phoenician ʾl pl. ʾlm; H27 KB (4,610 words) - 00:36, 13 December 2020
- ...n, like Israel's language and culture, is a child of the Canaanite or West Semitic world. ...nal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_45 Psalms. 45:7]). The [[language]] of [[divine]] kinship in these [[texts]] indicates that [[God]] [[adopts]15 KB (2,379 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
- ...sillusionment]] from a [[linguistic]] inquiry of its pages. Names, and all language are [[metaphors]] -- symbolic designations of realities, couched in greater ...t that "God" is an obvious Anglicism, and certainly [[English]] is not the language of currency in [[Paradise]], no more than is [[Latin]] or [[Hebrew]]. Never30 KB (4,699 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
- ...tudy of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself (grammar, vocabulary, etc.). ...stribution of wealth. The noun ''law'' derives from the late [[Old English language|Old English]] ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed. see [https://21 KB (3,123 words) - 00:24, 13 December 2020