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.

An example is the Hebrew calendar which uses a 19-year cycle.

The Hebrew Bible uses the term כשדים ( Kaśdim ) and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the Septuagint.

Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.

Others suggest that Essene is a transliteration of the Hebrew word Chitzonim ( chitzon = outside ), which the Mishna ( e. g. Megila 4: 8 ) uses to describe various sectarian groups.

The Hebrew Bible does not have a unique word for guilt, but uses a single word to signify: " sin, the guilt of it, the punishment due unto it, and a sacrifice for it.

) An 8th century AD Hebrew inscription, which was the earliest known Hebrew reference to Nazareth prior to the discovery of the inscription above, uses the same form.

Hebrew, which is also written from right to left, uses the same characters as in English, "," and "?

The Bible sometimes uses strong language, such as mention of men who " eat their own dung, and drink their own piss " in the Authorized King James Version of 1611's close translation of Hebrew text of 2 Kings 18: 27.

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.

The King James version of the Bible translates the Hebrew as " I Am that I Am " and uses it as a proper name for God.

Emden argued that the Zohar misquotes passages of Scripture ; misunderstands the Talmud ; contains some ritual observances which were ordained by later rabbinical authorities ; mentions The Crusades against Muslims ( who did not exist in the 2nd century ); uses the expression " esnoga ," a Portuguese term for " synagogue "; and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were not introduced until long after the Talmudic period.

God uses each number to represent a different supernal aspect of reality that He creates, to reflect their comprehensive inclusion in His absolute Oneness: 10 Sephirot, 12 Partzufim, 2 forms of Light, 2 Partzufim and 3 Heads in Keter, 4 letters of the Tetragrammaton, 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, 13 Attributes of Mercy, etc.

Not familiar with Hebrew, Theodoret uses the Syriac translation, the Greek versions, and the Septuagint.

Nevertheless, the Egyptian and Hebrew uses of the term are not identical: the Egyptian texts also identify the coastal city of Qadesh in north west Syria near Turkey as part of the " Land of Canaan ", so that the Egyptian usage seems to refer to the entire levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea, making it a synonym of another Egyptian term for this coastland, Retenu.

Greek uses a number for this day: Πέμπτη Pémpti " fifth ," as does " fifth day ," Hebrew: " יום חמישי " (" Yom Hamishi "-day fifth ) often written ' יום ה (" Yom Hey "-5th letter Hey day ), and Arabic: " يوم الخميس " (" Yom al-Khamīs "-fifth day ).

Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of " Baʿal " refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a " false god ".

The university, uniquely in the Russian Far East, uses as the basis of its teaching the study of the Hebrew language, history and classic Jewish texts.

The Church of Satan uses the Hebrew letters at each of the points of the Sigil of Baphomet to represent Leviathan.

When Matthew 1: 22 states: " Behold the virgin shall be with child " it uses the Greek term " parthenos " as " virgin " as in the Septuagint translation of Isaiah, while the original Masoretic Isaiah uses the Hebrew " almah ".

The Hebrew Bible uses the terms מלאכי אלוהים ( malakhi Elohim ; Angels of God ), " The Hebrew word for angel is " malach ," which means messenger, for the angels are God's messengers to perform various missions.

The EBC ( Vol 2 ) says that this text uses late Aramaic forms for these names which indicates that The Book of Enoch most likely relies upon the Hebrew Leviticus text rather than the Leviticus text being reliant upon the Book of Enoch.