It is also used in some Romanizations of Arabic, Persian and Tiberian Hebrew to represent a variant of " s ", ( ص in the Arabic alphabet, צ in Hebrew ) although the letter "" is more frequently used for this.

* Simcha Raz, Angel Among Men: Impressions from the Life of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook Zt "" L, translated ( from Hebrew ) Moshe D. Lichtman, Urim Publications 2003.

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

According to the practice of the versions of 1611 and 1885, the RSV translated it as "" or " God " ( depending on whether the Hebrew of the particular verse was read " Adonai " or " Elohim " in Jewish practice ), whereas the ASV had translated it " Jehovah ".

The Hebrew name "" ( Matityahu ) was transliterated into Greek to " Ματταθίας " ( Mattathias ), which was shortened to " Ματθαῖος " – ( Matthaios ).

* Hebrew: ""

In Hebrew the book is called Divrei Hayyamim ( i. e. " the matters the days "), based on the phrases sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Yehudah and " sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Israel " (" book of the days of the kings of Judah " and " book of the days of the kings of Israel "), both of which appear repeatedly in the Books of Kings.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The original Hebrew title of the book of Proverbs is " Míshlê Shlomoh " (" Proverbs of Solomon ").

The Hebrew shalom, the Arabic salām and the Amharic selam (" peace ") are also cognates, derived from Proto-Semitic * šalām -.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

The word Dogziyin (" Druzes ") occurs in an early Hebrew edition of his travels, but it is clear that this is a scribal error.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha (" Ishtar is her light ") as the origin with the possibility of-udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah.

In view of the meaning of the Hebrew root (" gather, assemble, convene ") one might opt for the translation " Speaker ".

In medieval Hebrew ( e. g. Sefer Yosippon ) Hassidim (" the pious ones ") replaces " Essenes ".

The word may derive from the word " jabber " (" to talk nonsense "), with the "- ish " suffix to signify a language ; alternatively, the term gibberish may derive from the eclectic mix of English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic spoken in the British territory of Gibraltar ( from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq ), which is unintelligible to non-natives.

The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai (" life "), which is composed of two letters which ( using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table shown below ) add up to 18.

(" Faith " in the context of Genesis and the Hebrew bible means agreement to the promissory relationship, not a body of belief ).

In Hebrew there are two common ways of writing the year number: with the thousands, called (" major era "), and without the thousands, called (" minor era ").

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

The generic Hebrew word for any kind of sin is aveira (" transgression ").

The Karaites (" Scripturalists ") accept only the Hebrew Bible and what they view as the Peshat (" simple " meaning ); they do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative.

It promotes the concept there is a shared intersection of values based on the Hebrew Bible (" Torah "), brought into our culture by the founding generations of Biblically oriented Protestants, that is fundamental to American history, cultural identity, and institutions.

" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.

The Mourners ', Rabbis ' and Complete Kaddish end with a supplication for peace (" Oseh Shalom ..."), which is in Hebrew, and is somewhat similar to the Bible.

For example, in the Hebrew construct-state form bēt, meaning " the house of ", the middle letter " י " in the spelling בית acts as a vowel, whereas in the corresponding absolute-state form bayit (" house "), which is spelled the same, the same letter represents a genuine consonant.

The phenomenon is not limited to English, with examples cited by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in the Hebrew song Háva Nagíla (" Let's Be Happy "), and in Bollywood movies.

Shmura (" guarded ") matzah ( Hebrew מ ַ צ ָּ ה ש ְׁ מו ּ ר ָ ה maṣṣā šəmūrā ) is made from grain that has been under special supervision from the time it was harvested to ensure that no fermentation has occurred, and that it is suitable for eating on the first night of Passover.

* In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible ( Yale University Press, 2012 ) ISBN 978-0-300-18044-2

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

This theology is referred to in Hebrew as Shituf ( literally " partnership " or " association ").

Hebrew: ברקת bareqeth and Arabic: برق barq " lightning ").

The 1929 Palestine riots ( see also the Hebron Massacre ), led Ze ' ev Jabotinsky to create a right-wing militia group called the Irgun Tzvai Leumi ( National Military Organization, known in Hebrew by its acronym " Etzel ").

However, a state of sin does not condemn a person to damnation ; there is always a road of teshuva ( Hebrew: תשובה ‎; repentance, literally: " return ").

Nazareth is not spelled with the " z " sound but with the Hebrew tsade ( thus " Nasareth " or " Natsareth ").

When the Temple in Jerusalem was standing, the focus of the Passover festival was the Passover sacrifice ( Hebrew korban Pesach ) also known as the " Paschal Lamb ").

Matzo has also been called Lechem Oni ( Hebrew: " bread of poverty ").

All other dead spots ( not neighbors of a survivor ) are called pharisees ( from the Hebrew for " separated ones ").

The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs ( Hebrew: Šîr haŠîrîm, LXX Greek: Aisma Aismatōn, Vulgate Latin: Cantĭcum Canticōrum ), or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Old Testament — one of the megillot ( scrolls )— found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim ( or " Writings ").

YHWH and Elohim frequently occur with the word tzevaot or sabaoth (" hosts " or " armies ", Hebrew: צבאות ) as YHWH Elohe Tzevaot (" YHWH God of Hosts "), Elohey Tzevaot (" God of Hosts "), Adonai YHWH Tzevaot (" Lord YHWH of Hosts ") and, most frequently, YHWH Tzevaot (" YHWH of Hosts ").

The Hebrew text was originally an abjad: consonants written with some applied vowel letters (" matres lectionis ").

Gemara means “ completion ” ( from the Hebrew: " to complete ") or " learning " ( from the Aramaic: " to study ").

The viol is unrelated to the much older Hebrew stringed instrument called a viol ( literally, " skin ").

In common usage, the language is called ( mame-loshn, literally " mother tongue "), distinguishing it from Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, which are collectively termed ( loshn-koydesh, " holy tongue ").

The crossguard bears, above another pattern of vine leaves, an inscription in corrupted Hebrew in Latin script: Con citomon Eeve Sedalai Ebrebel (" Fervent faith incite the names of God: Sedalai and Ebrehel ").

In Modern Hebrew, a Semitic language, most nouns have only singular and plural forms, such as ספר " book " and ספרים " books ", but some have distinct dual forms using a distinct dual suffix ( largely nouns pertaining to numbers or time, such as אלפיים " two thousand " and שבועיים " two weeks "), some use this dual suffix for their regular plurals ( largely body parts that tend to come in pairs, such as עיניים " eyes ", as well as some that do not, such as שיניים " teeth "), and some are inherently dual ( such as מכנסיים " pants " and אופניים " bicycle ").

Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").

( Calling someone up to say the Torah blessings during a service is called an Aliyah, from the Hebrew: ע ֲ ל ִ י ָּ ה, from the verb la ' alot, לעלות, meaning, " to rise, to ascend ; to go up ").

In modern Hebrew this contrasts with the term Yisraeli, a citizen of the modern State of Israel, regardless of religion or ethnicity ( English " Israeli ").

The word is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the three traditional subdivisions of the Tanakh: The Torah (" Teaching ", also known as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") and the Ketuvim (" Writings ").

In 1935, she settled in Tel Aviv, where she joined a group of Zionist Hebrew poets of Eastern-European origin known as Yakhdav ( " together ").