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• Semitic
  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
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• Babylonia
  ...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
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• Sumer
  ...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
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• 156:3 The Journey Up the Coast
  ...earlier [[Semitic]] [[origin]]. All of these peoples spoke the [[Greek]] [[language]]. It was a great [[surprise]] to [[the apostles]] and [[evangelists]] to [
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• Alphabet
  ...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
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• Shalom
  ...[[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'',
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• Chaldean
  *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.
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• Ideograph
  ...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
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• Kenite
  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
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• Mary (Jesus' mother)
  .... 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).
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• Philistine
  ...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
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• 121:2 The Jewish People
  ...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
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• Mesopotamia
  ...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
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• Dilmun
  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
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• 77:4 Nodite Centers of Civilization
  ...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
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  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.)
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• El
  '''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
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• Yahweh
  ...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]
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• Urantia Book Etymology & Human Languages
  ...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
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• Humanities
  ...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://
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