Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

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The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

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

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

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

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Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

The term " Quartodeciman " refers to the practice of celebrating Pascha or Easter on Nisan 14 of the Hebrew calendar, " the's passover " ().

The former Hebrew term refers to some wind instrument, or wind instruments in general, the latter to a stringed instrument, or stringed instruments in general.

However, the claim has been advanced that the original Hebrew ( דבש devash ) actually refers to the sweet syrup produced from the juice of dates.

The Hebrew word shemini means " eighth ," and refers to its position on " the eighth day " of Sukkot, actually a seven-day holiday.

The Hebrew word mashiach ( or moshiach ) refers to the Jewish idea of the Messiah.

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).

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.

However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish kings, and the Hebrew Bible refers to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, as a messiah.

The literal translation of the Hebrew word moshiach ( messiah ) is “ anointed ,” which refers to a ritual of consecrating someone or something by putting holy oil upon it.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to halakha, a man may even study the Rashi on each Torah verse in fulfillment of the requirement to review the Parsha twice with Targum ( which normally refers to Targum Onkelos ) This practice is called in Hebrew: " Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum ".

In biblical terminology, a Statute ( Hebrew chok ) refers to a law given without a reason.

The Hebrew Bible refers uncritically to slavery as an established institution.

In his words, " Structural supersessionism refers to the narrative logic of the standard model whereby it renders the Hebrew Scriptures largely indecisive for shaping Christian convictions about how God ’ s works as Consummator and Redeemer engage humankind in universal and enduring ways.

The Bible refers to Leviathan and Rahab, from the Hebrew Tanakh, although ' great creatures of the sea ' ( NIV ) are also mentioned in Book of Genesis 1: 21.

The Talmud refers to Shavuot as Atzeret ( Hebrew: עצרת, literally, " refraining " or " holding back "), referring to the prohibition against work on this holiday and to the conclusion of the holiday and season of Passover.

The Zohar refers to Seth as " ancestor of all the generations of the tzaddikim " ( Hebrew: righteous ones ).

Elam as a personal name also refers to eight other figures appearing in the Hebrew Bible:

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 ").

" Judas " ( like the Hebrew " Judah ") refers to Judean identity, either membership in the state of Judea of the Graeco-Roman period or the Jewish people more generally.

However, the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal ( ספרות חז " ל ; " Literature our sages blessed memory ," where Hazal normally refers only to the sages of the Talmudic era ).

Zerah or Zérach ( ז ֶ ר ַ ח / ז ָ ר ַ ח " Sunrise ", Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ ) refers to five different people in the Hebrew Bible.