Abraham ( Hebrew:, Modern:, Greek: Αβραάμ ( Avraam ), Tiberian:, Ashkenazi: Avrohom or Avruhom,

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

" Commentary to Leviticus " in The Torah: A Modern Commentary, edited by W. Gunther Plaut, New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

Modern Hebrew Bibles call the two books Ezra and Nehemiah, as do other modern Bible translations.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Modern Hebrew is written from right to left using the Hebrew alphabet, which is an abjad, or consonant-only script of 22 letters.

* Modern Hebrew phonology

* History of the Ancient and Modern Hebrew Language by David Steinberg

* Fully Transliterated Modern Hebrew Course ( with listing of verb roots and derived verbs )

* Modern Hebrew

* Hebrew ( pronunciation ); Biblical Hebrew Phonology or Modern Hebrew phonology

All varieties, from Biblical to Modern, use a typically Semitic templatic morphology with triconsonantal stems, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have significant borrowed components of the lexicon that do not fit into this pattern.

Verbal morphology has remained relatively unchanged, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have lost some modal distinctions of Biblical Hebrew and created others through the use of auxiliary verbs.

Significant syntactic changes have arisen in Modern Hebrew as a result of non-Semitic substrate influences.

Modern Hebrew tends to reserve this construction for phrases where the two components form a unified concept, whereas ordinary possession is more commonly expressed analytically with the preposition shel ' of ' ( etymologically consisting of the relativizer she-' that ' and the preposition le-' to ').

Modern Hebrew tends to reserve this for a limited number of nouns, but usually prefers to use the preposition shel, as in the previous case.

The latter construction is the one generally used in Modern Hebrew.

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

Modern usage of the term intellectual property goes back at least as far as 1867 with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property ( Schutz des geistigen Eigentums ) to the confederation.

Modern usage avoids the fallacy by acknowledging the possibility of this middle ground.

* Modern usage includes a logically valid form, in which a minor action causes a significant impact through a long chain of logical relationships.

Modern codification of the rule in English can be found in the mid 18th century with Anne Fisher's A New Grammar, generic use of the pronoun he has been preferred ( but not required ) in such constructions by many contemporary grammar and usage books.

In Modern Greek usage ( and since the Roman Imperial period ), the letters < η > < ι > < υ > and the letter combinations < ει > < oι > < υι > may be pronounced.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

Modern usage of the term " computer simulation " may encompass virtually any computer-based representation.

Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well.

Modern usage of ' diocese ' tends to refer to the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction.

Modern usage for " amphitheater " can embrace theatre-style stages with the audience only on one side, theatres in the round, and stadiums.

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.

Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.

Historically, the substantive and editorial differences among the first-edition and the third-edition versions is that the former, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), is a prescriptive style guide to clear and expressive writing, whilst the latter versions, The New Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1996 ) and Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 2004 ), are descriptive usage guides to spoken and written English.

The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that " he spelling ' tyre ' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US ", while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that " there is nothing to be said for ' tyre ', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own British older & the present American usage ".

Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ( Ð, ð ), however the pronunciation of words beginning with a þ often depends on that word's position within a sentence, being pronounced if the word is at the beginning of a sentence but otherwise.

The noun damnation itself is mostly reserved for the religious sense in Modern English, while condemnation remains common in secular usage.

Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term " stained glass " to include domestic leadlight and objets d ' art created from came glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

A distinguishing feature of Yeshivish is that its speakers knowingly apply highly technical and literal written language to a colloquial language and in common day usage, similar to Modern Hebrew, for example:

Modern usage is more specific, referring almost exclusively to the hand-tool pressure flaking process pictured to the right.

) This usage was routine in the Venetian-ruled Aegean in the Early Modern era.