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 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 scholarship tends to favour a Syriac origin ; but even so, the exercise must have been repeated in Greek very shortly afterwards — probably by Tatian himself.

The timeframe is also slightly different, in that " Renaissance " tends to refer to events over a generally earlier period than " Early Modern ".

Modern scholarship tends to challenge the accuracy of Roman historians.

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

Modern scholarship tends to the second view.

Modern karate competition tends to transform Wadō-ryū away from its roots towards a new generic karate that appeals more to the demands of both spectators and competitors.

Modern scholarship tends to consider it relatively credible.

Modern deep house ( post-2000 ) often shares features with the related genre of tech house but tends to focus on musical complexity where tech house focuses on simplicity.

Modern thinking tends towards the latter view.

Modern winemaking tends to favour tank presses with pneumatic membranes, which squeeze the grapes more gently than continuous presses.

Modern understanding of the art of many cultures tends to be distorted by the modern privileging of fine art media over others, as well as the very different survival rates of works in different media.

International Dimensions of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Prof John P. Neelsen ( Tuebingen University, Germany ), 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, 8 – 11 July 2008: A shortcoming in international law as to internal colonialism and the right to self-determination renders the current types of international intervention not just inadequate to contribute to a negotiated solution of ethnic conflicts, but tends to inflame them.

Noun morphology is broadly similar to Standard Modern Greek, although Tsakonian tends to drop the nominative, final-ς (- s ) from masculine nouns, thus Tsakonian ο τσχίφτα for Standard o τρίφτης ( o tshifta / o triftis: " grater ").

Modern furniture making, however, tends to rely upon a combination of engineered woods and solid woods in frame making.

Modern linguistic and archaeological evidence tends to support this.

Modern historians reserve the term " mail " for chain mail and its varieties, specifically an interlinked mesh of metal rings.

*: Modern Greek: past and non-past ( future is expressed by a periphrastic construction )

Modern English typically does not morphologically mark nouns for a genitive case in order to indicate a genitive construction ; instead, it uses either the

Image: sthlm_sergelstorg_MH5Y4176. jpg | Modern construction at Sergels Torg

However the subject pronouns here are grammatically unnecessary and most other constructions suggest that both languages are VSO languages at their core, though Modern Hebrew generally uses SVO construction as well as the modern varieties of Arabic.

Modern closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no apparent space in the bedroom, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothing storage, in which case they are often called a wardrobe or armoire.

Modern disposable baby diapers and incontinence products have a layered construction, which allows the transfer and distribution of urine to an absorbent core structure where it is locked in.

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler ’ s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms.

After construction expenses for the new galleries are covered, the Modern estimates that some $ 65 million will go to its $ 650 million endowment.

Modern engineers have put forward a plausible hypothesis for the statue construction, based on the technology of those days ( which was not based on the modern principles of earthquake engineering ), and the accounts of Philo and Pliny who both saw and described the remains.

Modern road construction began in earnest during the First Development Plan ( 1961 – 66 ).

It has a similar monumental impressiveness to Gilbert Scott's other local buildings, Battersea Power Station and the Tate Modern, although its simplicity is partly the result of repeated budget cuts during its construction: much more detail, including carved Gothic stonework surrounding the windows, was originally planned.

" Other architects, well known ( Frank Lloyd Wright, for example ) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form ", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.

Modern scholars think that Manetho originally ascribed ( or meant to ascribe ) these feats to Imuthes, who was later deified as Aesculapius by the Greeks and Romans, and who corresponds to Imhotep, the famous minister of Djoser who engineered the Step Pyramid's construction.

* Modern Machine Shop Practice a historic Victorian text describing lathe design, construction and use in 1880s.

Modern dam-building began in the Harz with the construction of the Söse Valley Dam, that was built between 1928 and 1931.

Modern set-theoretic approaches allow one to define infinitesimals via the ultrapower construction, where a null sequence becomes an infinitesimal in the sense of an equivalence class modulo a relation defined in terms of a suitable ultrafilter.

It included the maintenance of the existent gardens and the creation of new ones, the intensive cleaning and sweeping of streets and sidewalks, the construction of new pink quarry sidewalks and benches, the creation of access bays in the Zoo, lake and Modern Art Museum for touristic and school buses, the installation of new lighting, the moving of the monument to Cuauhtémoc to the crossing of Insurgentes Avenue and Paseo de la Reforma, the construction of prism shaped concrete structures in the median which also have plants and flowers, the promotion of Reforma as a cultural walk organizing different expositions along the avenue sidewalks, and the maintenance of the monuments, sculptures and fountains.

Modern construction materials for bows include laminated wood, fiberglass, metals, and carbon fiber components.

Modern fibres such as dacron or kevlar are now used in bowstring construction, as well as steel wires in some compound bows.

Modern construction methods do not allow the permafrost to melt, either by building a gravel berm on top or replacing the vegetation and soil immediately with gravel.

The result of this project include TeX for typesetting, Metafont for font construction and the Computer Modern typefaces that are the default fonts used by TeX.

Modern industry was established in Gwangju with the construction of a railway to Seoul.