Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.

The Bible translation is a treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word aion.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The word may come from Hebrew har məgiddô (), meaning " Mountain of Megiddo ".

Other scholars, including C. C. Torrey, Kline and Jordan argue that the word is derived from the Hebrew moed (), meaning " assembly ".

This comes from the use of the word " Hebrew " to designate a people instead of a language: the Hebrew Bible is the Bible of the Hebrew people.

Loving-kindness living: Boaz and Ruth are models of an altruism for which the word " loving-kindness " has been coined ( approximately translating Hebrew hesed ).

His name comes either from the Hebrew word חבק ( khavak ) meaning " embrace " or else from an Akkadian word hambakuku for a kind of plant.

In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, the word Christ was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach ( messiah ), meaning " anointed.

The title " Messiah " comes from the Hebrew word מ ָ ש ִׁ יח ַ ( māšiáħ ) meaning anointed one.

The term Mazzaroth, a hapax legomenon in Job 38: 32, may be the Hebrew word for the zodiacal constellations.

For instance, while the Hebrew word chutzpah means " impudence ," its Arabic cognate ḥaṣāfah means " sound judgment ;" even more contradictorily, the English word black and Polish biały, meaning white, both derive from the PIE, meaning, " to burn or shine.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Rabbis expounded on and debated the Tanakh ( Hebrew: ת ַּ נ ַ" ך ְ‎), the Hebrew Bible, without the benefit of written works ( other than the Biblical books themselves ), though some may have made private notes (), for example of court decisions.

Christians believe that Daniel ( Hebrew: ד ָּ נ ִ י ֵּ אל, or Daniyyel ) was a prophet and gave an indication of when the Messiah, the prince mashiyach nagiyd, would come in the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks.

One conjecture holds that " Nazareth " is derived from one of the Hebrew words for ' branch ', namely ne · ṣer, נ ֵ֫ צ ֶ ר, and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11: 1, ' from ( Jesse's ) roots a Branch ( netzer ) will bear fruit.

Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah ( in Hebrew נ ֹ ח ַ) “ This one will comfort ( in Hebrew – yeNaHamainu י ְ נ ַ ח ֲ מ ֵ נו ) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed ”, by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing ( in Hebrew – nahah – נחה ) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.

The name Sinai may have been derived from the ancient moon-god Sin or from the Hebrew word " Seneh " ( ס ֶ֫ נ ֶּ ה, Senneh )

In nine passages of the Bible are found signs usually called " inverted nuns ", because they resemble the Hebrew letter nun ( נ ) written in some inverted fashion.

The Greek (), Adōnis was a borrowing from the Semitic word adon, " lord ", which is related to Adonai, one of the names used to refer to the God ( א ֲ ד ֹ נ ָ י ) in the Hebrew Bible and still used in Judaism to the present day.

It appears in Arabic as " nafţ " ( ن َ ف ْ ط ) (" petroleum "), and in Hebrew as " neft " ( נ ֵ פ ְ ט ).

A pitam is composed of a style ( Hebrew: " ד ַ ד "), and a stigma ( Hebrew: " ש ׁ ו ֹ ש ַׁ נ ְ ת ָּ א "), which usually falls off during the growing process.

Baal-hanan ( Hebrew: ב ַּ ע ַ ל ח ָ נ ָ ן / ב ָּ ע ַ ל ח ָ נ ָ ן, / ) means " Baal is gracious ".

ק ְ נ ָ ז " Hunter ", Standard Hebrew Knaz, Tiberian Hebrew Qənaz / Qənāz

It comes from the Hebrew name נ ְ ת ַ נ ְ א ֵ ל / Nethan ' el meaning " Gift of God " ( from the Hebrew words nathan " Gift " + el " of God ").

** י ְ הו ֹ ש ֻׁ ע ַ Yehoshua – Joshua ( Hebrew – English at Mechon-Mamre. org, Jewish Publication Society translation )

The Book of Proverbs ( in Hebrew: מ ִ ש ְ ל ֵ י Mish ' ley ), commonly referred to simply as Proverbs, is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

* English mysterious and Hebrew mistori ( מ ִ ס ְ ת ּ ו ֹ ר ִ י )

Tefillin ( Hebrew: ת ְ פ ִ ל ִּ ין ), known in English as phylacteries ( from the Greek word φυλακτήριον, meaning safeguard or amulet ), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps.

This response is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew " ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד " ( Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom is forever ), which is to be found in the Jerusalem Targum ( י ְ ה ֵ א ש ְׁ מ ֵ יה ּ ר ַ ב ָּ א מ ְ ב ָ ר ֵ ך ְ ל ְ ע ָ ל ְ מ ֵ י ע ַ ל ְ מ ִ ין ) ( Genesis 49: 2 and Deuteronomy 6: 4 ), and is similar to the wording of.

In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis ( Latin " mothers of reading ", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: א ֵ ם ק ְ ר ִ יא ָ ה mother of reading ), refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel.

Mary of Bethany ( Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament ; form of Hebrew מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, Miryām, or Miriam, " wished for child ", " bitter " or " rebellious ") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament.

The Book of Psalms ( Tiberian: Təhillîm ; Modern: Tehillim, ת ְ ה ִ ל ִּ ים, or " praises "), commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Islamic Zabur.

In the Masoretic Text the name YHWH is vowel pointed as י ְ ה ֹ ו ָ ה, as if pronounced YE-HO-VAH in modern Hebrew, and Yəhōwāh in Tiberian vocalization.

Kislev ( Hebrew: כ ִּ ס ְ ל ֵ ו, Kislev ; also Chislev is the third month of the civil year and the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar.

Jews ( Hebrew: י ְ הו ּ ד ִ ים ‎, Yehudim ), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 Judah ( Hebrew: י ְ הו ּ ד ָ ה Yehuda ) became a province of the Persian empire.

Balaam ( Hebrew: ב ִּ ל ְ ע ָ ם, ) is a diviner in the Torah, his story occurring towards the end of the Book of Numbers ( Hebrew: במדבר ).