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  • ..., "traverse or pass over") are an ancient people defined as descendants of biblical Patriarch '''[[Abraham]]''' (Hebrew אברהם), a descendent of [[Noah]]. ...article on Eber], though the term has not been found in biblical or extra-biblical sources for any tribe or nation other than Abraham and his descendents.[htt
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  • ...atic (like honey), and has a dirty-yellow color, fitting somewhat with the Biblical descriptions of manna. However, this resin is mostly composed from [https:/ ...m the question man hu, seemingly meaning "What is it?"; this is perhaps an Aramaic etymology, not a [[Hebrew]] one. Man is possibly cognate with the [https://
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  • '''Mary''' (Aramaic, Hebrew: מרים, Maryām Miriam Arabic:مريم, Maryam), usually referre ...ralding her [[divine]] selection to be mother of Jesus. However, early non-biblical writings state that she was the daughter of Joachim and Saint Anne. The Bib
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  • ...mily]] includes the ancient and modern forms of Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Maltese, Phoenician, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.
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  • ...onim'' [נביאים אחרונים], which mostly contains prophecies in the form of [[biblical poetry]]. ...tragrammaton|God]]'s rejection of [[Eli (Biblical priest)|Eli]], [[Samuel (biblical figure)|Samuel's]] birth, and subsequent judgment (1 Samuel 1:1-7:17)
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  • ...to avoid the confessional terms Old Testament and Tanakh.The [[Society of Biblical Literature]]'s ''Handbook of Style'', which is the standard for major acade ...ar with that language. It also refers to the particular arrangement of the biblical books as found in [[Judaism]], and even to the exact features of the [[maso
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  • ...d Aramaic.[3] The corresponding Aramaic form is אֱלָהָא ʼĔlāhā in Biblical Aramaic and ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ ʼAlâhâ or ʼĀlōho in Syriac.[10] # The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon - Entry for ʼlh
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  • The '''biblical apocrypha''' includes texts written in the [[Judaism|Jewish]] and [[Christi * were accepted into the [[biblical canon]] by some, but not all, Christian faiths, or
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  • ...ten in Koine Greek by various authors after c. AD 45. Though Jesus speaks Aramaic in it, the New Testament (including the Gospels) was written in Greek becau ...the third Gospel; twenty-one early letters, commonly called "epistles" in Biblical [[context]], written by various authors and consisting mostly of Christian
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  • '''b.''' [[Mammon]], from [[Aramaic]] ''mamona,'' probably from Mishnaic Hebrew ''mamôn,'' probably from earli == Biblical usage ==
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  • ...ish texts in English sometimes spelled ''Moshiach''; Aramaic: '''משיחא''', Aramaic/Syriac: '''ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ''', ''Məšîḥā'', '''المسيح''', ''Masī Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament (Hebrew scripture) as predicting the coming o
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  • ...that tempts humans to [[sin]] or commit [[evil]] deeds. Others regard the Biblical Satan as an [[metaphor|allegory]] that represents a crisis of faith, [[indi ...tan'' in Standard Hebrew, ''Śāṭān'' in Tiberian Hebrew, סטנא ''Sāṭānā'' in Aramaic, Σατανάς ''Satanás'' in Koine Greek, شيطان ''Šeytân'' in Pe
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  • ...clude Ugaritic ʾil, pl. ʾlm; Phoenician ʾl pl. ʾlm; Hebrew ʾēl, pl. ʾēlîm; Aramaic ʾl; Akkadian ilu, pl. ilānu. The Semitic root ʾlh (Arabic ʾilāh, Aramaic 'alāh, 'elāh, Hebrew 'elōah) may be ʾlu with a parasitic h. In Ugaritic
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  • :c. sacrifice of praise (and thanksgiving): a phr. drawn from biblical sources (e.g. Lev. vii. 12, Ps. l. 14, 23 (R.V., etc.), Heb. xiii. 15) used ...o the [[metaphor]] of a sacrificial animal. He points out that in Galilean Aramaic, the word talya, literally "lamb", had the common meaning of "male child".
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  • ...to Aramaic—that, for example, some incomprehensible references are in fact Aramaic puns which do not work in Greek. ...h achieved its Oriental flavor largely by using Persian names and discreet Biblical echoes and actually drew little of its material from the Persian original.[
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  • ...il. It is argued by those who follow the documentary hypothesis and higher Biblical criticism that this concept of Satan developed over time. Hebrew "Satan" se
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  • Aramaic. He studied with Albert the Great and must have known Thomas Aquinas by Biblical Wisdom texts, that is, by Hebrew verses filtered through Greek and then
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