...s been suggested for a handful of known Philistine words (See [[Philistine language]]).
from Hebrew ''P'lishtim'', (See, e.g., 1 Samuel 17:26, 17:36; 2 Samuel 1:20; Judges 14:
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...f affirmation [https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01407b.htm] found in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[New Testament]]. Its use in [[Judaism]] dates back to its ear
''Amen,'' meaning ''so be it,'' is of [[Hebrew]] origin [https://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/strongs.pl?strongs=281] T
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...m this original sense when the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible Hebrew Bible] was translated into Greek; the first mention of a diaspora created a
...]], the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the [[English]] language was in 1876 referring "extensive diaspora work (as it is termed) of evangel
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The '''Kenites''' or '''Kainites''' (in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], '''''Kainim'''''), the children of [[Cain]], were a tribe of the ancient
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...stions for proper action in life, parables frequently use [[metaphor]]ical language which allows people to more easily discuss difficult or complex ideas. In [
...Fables'', George Fyler Townsend defined "parable" as "the designed use of language purposely intended to convey a hidden and secret meaning other than that co
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...fables and the multiplication of [[miraculous]] appearing [[events]] in [[Hebrew]] [[history]] in an [[effort]] to restore the [[Jews]] as the [[chosen peop
...iki/Judaea_%28Roman_province%29 Jewish nation], the [[glorification]] of [[Hebrew]] [[traditions]], and the exaltation of their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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...ets''') is the second of the three major sections in the ''[[Tanakh]]'' ([[Hebrew Bible]]), following the [[Torah]] and preceding ''[[Ketuvim]]'' (writings).
...very complex prophecy about this servant, that is written in a very poetic language. Although there is still the mention of judgment of false worshippers and i
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...kespeare]] as "The Bard", recognizing him as a [[paragon]] writer of the [[language]]. Finally, claims to preference or [[authority]] can be refuted: the Briti
...atin nomen, and Greek ὄνομα (onoma), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE): *nomn-.[2]
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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] buil
...elf with the Roman rulers. And though Herod professed [[loyalty]] to the [[Hebrew]] [[ceremonial]] observances, he proceeded to build [[temples]] for many st
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...ulgate [[translation]] of Exodus vi. 3, and hence by Wyclif. Students of [[Hebrew]] at the Revival of Letters took these vowels as those of the word Yhwh (IH
...of_genesis#Chapter_.49 Genesis. 49:25]). Israelite religion, like Israel's language and culture, is a child of the Canaanite or West Semitic world.
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...section called ''Apocrypha''. Books and portions of books not found in the Hebrew [[Tanakh]] were moved out of the body of the [[Old Testament]] to this sect
The English-language [[King James Version]] of 1611 followed the lead of the Luther Bible in usi
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'''Jeremiah''' is regarded as a "major prophet" in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilkiah Hilkiah], a
...f Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. The Hebrew-language chronology ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seder_HaDoroth Seder HaDoroth]'
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...sillusionment]] from a [[linguistic]] inquiry of its pages. Names, and all language are [[metaphors]] -- symbolic designations of realities, couched in greater
...[[translations]] of the [[Bible]]. But the term is nowhere in the actual [[Hebrew]] text of the [[Old Testament]] at all, nor could it have been, being purel
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...by [[translation]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_scriptures Hebrew scriptures] into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek] and b
...consolidated]] the [[Mediterranean]] lands into one [[empire]], with one [[language]] and one [[culture]], and had made the [[Western world]] ready for [[Monot
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===='''''[[Language]]'''''====
..._Greek_language Greek], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew Hebrew].
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...le, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The [[Hebrew Bible]], Persian ''[[Shahnama]]'', the Indian ''[[Mahabharata]]'', ''[[Rama
...n only [[text]] composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic written language ([[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], for example). An even more narrow interpretation
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...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] (ca. 250 BC) to translate the Hebrew equivalent ''Naharaim''.
...dopted the peculiar writing system originating in [[Dilmun]]. The Sumerian language, though virtually lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in common
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...uage|Akkadian]] name of the city appears as ''Urušalim'', a cognate of the Hebrew ''Ir Shalem''. Some believe there is a connection to ''[[Shalim]]'', the be
...tled ''Jerusalem the Holy''. A similar view was held by those who give the Hebrew dual to the word (see: ''Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics and History f
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...resuppositions, preunderstandings, the [[meaning]] and [[philosophy]] of [[language]], and [[semiotics]].[1]
...tain origin[8], but may be cognate to a corrupted composite borrowing from Hebrew Har [ha]Emet (Emes) referring to the Biblical [[Mount Sinai]] where Moses i
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...s://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_B.C. 900 B.C]., and having no [[written]] [[language]] until such a late date, they had several [[different]] stories of [[creat
...part of the later collections of the "[[sacred]] [[scriptures]]" of the [[Hebrew]] and [[Christian]] [[religions]]. And through identification with these [[
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