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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 Bi

...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 Sumerian

...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 evid

...earlier [[Semitic]] [[origin]]. All of these peoples spoke the [[Greek]] [[language]]. It was a great [[surprise]] to [[the apostles]] and [[evangelists]] to [

...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.wik

...[[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'',

*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.

...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 rebus

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 on

.... 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).

...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, c

...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] buil

...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/Ar

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/A

...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/I

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.)

'''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; H

...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]

...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]]. Never

...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://

...ity, God" (ho theos monos).[4] Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including [[Hebrew]] and Aramaic.[3] The corresponding Aramaic f ...o other word for 'God' than 'Allah'.[6] (Even the Arabic-descended Maltese language of Malta, whose population is almost entirely Roman Catholic, uses Alla for

...uage are sometimes considered to be part of the arts, for example as the [[language arts]]. ...ac Newton]], have written their own [[colour theory]]. Moreover the use of language is only a generalisation for a colour equivalent. The word "[[red]]", for e

...and claimed the [[worship]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic] [[tribes]] and peoples. ==96:2. THE SEMITIC PEOPLES==

...Genesis]] 14:18) Others cite the [[Amarna letters]], where the [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] name of the city appears as ''Urušalim'', a cognate of the Hebr

...of the region &mdash; the [[Mesopotamia]]n, [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], [[Semitic]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Phoenicia]]n, [[Carthage|Carthaginian]], [ ...a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white sea". In Arabic, it is ''Al-Baħr

...," and the language that it is to be translated into is called the "target language"; the final product is sometimes called the "target text." ...aught with the potential for "spilling over" of idioms and usages from one language into the other, since both languages coexist within the translator's [[mind

In the [[English]] language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheisti ...im Arabs. It is derived from the word ''ilah'', a cognate of the northwest Semitic El (Hebrew "El", dual form "Eloah", Aramaic אלהא "Elâhâ"), which, lik

...Greek culture] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek language] had spread over [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Hellenistic_ ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Hellenistic_Greece Grecian language and culture]—and [[philosophy]] to a certain extent.

...]]. [[Alan Millard]] has put forward a case for the name deriving from the Semitic stem ''dn'', meaning "abundant, lush". ...r 'walled orchard garden' or 'enclosed hunting park' in an ancient Persian language. This word "paradise" occurs three times in the [[Old Testament]], but alw

...earth, and the city "was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth."Hebrew ''Babal'', "confusion"; but if the story is based ...&division=div1 Genesis 28.] The name ''Bethel'' in Hebrew and related West Semitic languages means "House of El;" in later Jewish tradition the name was taken

...earlier [[Semitic]] [[origin]]. All of these peoples spoke the [[Greek]] [[language]]. It was a great [[surprise]] to [[the apostles]] and [[evangelists]] to [

...can be spoken as potential or as actual, particular or generic. The same [[language]] refers to the effects of causes; so that [[generic]] effects assigned to ...her events in the [[universe]]. Causality is hard to interpret to ordinary language from many different physical theories. One problem is typified by the moon'

...desire]] for human [[companionship]] even across [[social]], [[racial]], [[language]], and [[economic]] [[barriers]]. I think you are all up to it. Keep up the

...ines of race and ethnicity, sex, age, body type, background and education, language, vocation; all these aspects of being human. They are all somewhat indepen ...riends who are departing for Poland to go to Auschwitz and Treblinka to do Semitic (Ed: right word?) healing there. They believe they will be able to gather

...The ultimate origin of the word is unknown; suggestions include [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''[[Rho (letter)|ra'is]]'' meaning "head", but also "beginning" or ...[[Ham]] and [[Japheth]], the three [[sons of Noah]], producing distinct [[Semitic]] ([[Asia]]n), [[Hamitic]] ([[Africa]]n), and [[Japhetic]] ([[Europe]]an) p

...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/I