He was given the surname Bar Kokhba ( Aramaic for " Son of a Star ", referring to the Star Prophecy of, " there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab ") by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.

Bar " בר " is a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic word literally meaning son, in Hebrew it's Ben " בן ".

( Bar -, " son of " in Aramaic, is also seen ).

Note, the name Barabbas is a Hellenization of the Aramaic Bar Abba ( בר אבא ), literally, " Son of the Father ".

* Sokoloff, Michael, A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: Bar Ilan and Johns Hopkins 2002

* Sokoloff, Michael, A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic: Bar Ilan 2003

Although uncertain, it is widely thought that during the Bar Kokhba revolt, when a rabbinical assembly decided which books could be regarded as part of the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish apocrypha were left out.

A Hebrew inscription found in Caesarea dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century mentions Nazareth as the home of the priestly Hapizzez family after the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 132-135 AD ).

Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

* Sources on Halakha and the role of women in Hebrew and English by Bar Ilan University Professor Meir Kalech

* Sources on Halakha and the role of women in Hebrew and English by Bar Ilan University Professor Meir Kalech

* Harisot Betar: sipur ` al dever gevurat Bar Kokhva ve-hurban Betar bi-yad Adriyanus kesar Roma ( 1858 ), a Hebrew novel by Kalman Schulman

* Bar Kokhba ( 1884 ), a Hebrew drama by Yehudah Loeb Landau

During these years he and Joshua ( which, as Biff points out, is the original Hebrew version of the Hellenized " Jesus ", and thus in Galilee Jesus was called Joshua Bar Joseph ) travel to the East to seek the Three Wise Men ( a magician, a Buddhist, and a Hindu Yogi ) who attended Joshua's birth so that he may learn how to become the Messiah.

He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his Bar Mitzvah, then St. Louis Park High School where he wrote articles for his school's newspaper.

and was able to have her Bat Mitzvah by learning how to read Hebrew phonetically ; she was later interviewed for the book Mazel Tov: Celebrities ' Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories.

Although the Greek appears to be a loan translation of the Hebrew phrase avodat elilim, which is attested in rabbinic literature ( e. g., bChul., 13b, Bar.

Harold is assumed to be 13, based on the traditional age one receives a Bar Mitzvah ( his Hebrew name is Chaim ), although the students seem to disregard his age while they point out Torvald being a fourth grader even though he is the same age.

After his Bar Mitzvah in 1933, Celan abandoned Zionism ( at least to some extent ) and finished his formal Hebrew education, instead becoming active in Jewish Socialist organizations and fostering support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.

Favreau attended Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah.

Joseph, son of Caiaphas, Hebrew יוסף ב ַּ ר ק ַ י ָּ פ ָ א or Yosef Bar Kayafa, commonly known simply as Caiaphas () in the New Testament, was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus.

The name Betar בית " ר refers to both the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 136 AD ) and to the altered Hebrew name of " Brit Yosef Trumpeldor " ( ברית יוסף תרומפלדור ).

A banner written in Hebrew reads " Today you are a robot " ( with two misspellings ), referencing the traditional Jewish belief that a boy becomes a man on his Bar Mitzvah.

He now lives in Israel and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University.

After retiring from the Hebrew University and being succeeded by his former student Abraham Robinson, Fraenkel continued teaching at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan ( near Tel Aviv ).

Bar Hiyya wrote all his works in Hebrew, not in Judaeo-Arabic of the earlier Jewish scientific literature, which made him a pioneer in the use of the Hebrew language for scientific purposes.

She is a graduate of the Hebrew University and has been a member of the Israeli Bar since 1981.

“ Hava Nagila ” (, literally " Let us rejoice ") is a Jewish traditional folk song in Hebrew, that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar / Bat Mitzvahs.

It is patronymic as the prefix Fitz-derives from the Latin filius, meaning " son of ".

He is also known as the Baal HaTanya, " Master of the Tanya ", and by a variety of other names including Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Baruchovitch being the Russian patronymic from his father Baruch, by the acronym RaZaSh, " Rabbi Za-Sh -", by the title Baal HaTanya ve-haShulchan Aruch, " Master of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch, as the Alter Rebbe (" Old Rebbe " in Yiddish ), Admor HaZaken (" Old Rebbe " in Hebrew ), Rabbeinu HaZokein, Rabbeinu HaGodol, " our great rabbi ", the GRaZ, and Rav.

Davies is a spelling variation of the patronymic English surname Davis, that means David, a Hebrew name meaning " beloved ".

Jews have historically used Hebrew patronymic names.

Until the early 19th century, the names of most Central European Jews consisted of a Hebrew first name, a German second name, the patronymic " ben ... " ( son of ...) and, if an upper one, the class-HaCohen ( or " Katz ") or HaLevy.

Other examples of late Biblical Hebrew include the qetAl pattern form nouns, which would have dated after an Aramaic influence, the frequent use of the relative sh (- ש ) alongside asher ( אשר ), the Ut ending ( ות -), the frequent use of the participle for the present ( which is later developed in Rabbinic Hebrew ), using the prefix conjugation in the future ( vs. the older preterite use ), and terms that appear to specifically fit a Persian / Hellenistic context ( e. g. Shallit ).

The word rabbi derives from the Semitic root R-B-B, in Hebrew script rav, which in biblical Aramaic means ‘ great ’ in many senses, including " revered ", but appears primarily as a prefix in construct forms.

* The prefix ' h -' used as the definite article ( whereas Aramaic has a postfixed-a ).

The most prominent feature in Aramaic names is ' bar ' ( Greek transliteration βαρ, Aramaic bar ), meaning ' son of ', a common patronym prefix.

This language shows a number of Hebrew features have been taken into Jewish Aramaic: the letter He is often used instead of Aleph to mark a word-final long a vowel and the prefix of the causative verbal stem, and the masculine plural ending-īm often replaces-īn.

* As applied to Hebrew, it refers either to the verb's action noun, or to the part of the infinitive following the infinitival prefix ( also called the infinitival construct ).

As he explains the Hebrew prefix " ו " that is translated in the above passage as " and " is often used as a disjunctive, and means " or ", when there is a second proposition.

: Classical Greek: kaj ( and, from και kai ), pri ( about, from περι peri ), the plural suffix-j, the accusative case suffix-n, the inceptive prefix ek -, the suffix-ido ( offspring ), and perhaps the jussive mood suffix-u ( if not Hebrew ).

Examples of Modern Hebrew hybrid words which include an international prefix are as following:

" Yahū " or " Yah " is the abbreviation of YHWH when used as a suffix in Hebrew names ; as a prefix it appears as " Y < sup > e </ sup > hō -", or " Yo ".

* Shm-reduplication: The construction " X, shm-X " was transferred from Yiddish into Modern Hebrew as a productive derogatory prefix resulting in an echoic expressive, as in David Ben-Gurion's famous dismissal of the United Nations ( UN ), um shmum ( UN Shm-UN ) during a March 29, 1955 government meeting.

It generally is applied to linguistic indicators of the accusative case, such as the use of the prefix " et " in Hebrew, for nouns in the accusative, which are indicated by use of the definite article ( i. e. " the ").

The construction also transferred into Modern Hebrew usage, as a productive derogatory prefix resulting in an echoic expressive, as in David Ben-Gurion's famous dismissal of the United Nations ( UN ), um shmum ( UN Shm-UN ) during a March 29, 1955 government meeting.