English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

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

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

The abomination of desolation ( or desolating sacrilege ) is a term found in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Daniel.

* In Hebrew, the most common term used to refer to BCE / CE is simply לספירה ( according to the count ) for CE, and לפני הספירה ( before the count ) for BCE.

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

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.

In Judaism, concubines are referred to by the Hebrew term pilegesh.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

: Chronicler redirects here ; " the Chronicler " is a term used for the anonymous compiler of the Hebrew Books of Chronicles.

Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible.

The term is used in contrast to the protocanonical books, which are contained in the Hebrew Bible.

Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, to describe scriptural texts of the Old Testament considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which are not present in the Hebrew Bible, and which had been omitted by some early canon lists, especially in the East.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

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.

The word may derive from the word " jabber " (" to talk nonsense "), with the "- ish " suffix to signify a language ; alternatively, the term gibberish may derive from the eclectic mix of English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic spoken in the British territory of Gibraltar ( from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq ), which is unintelligible to non-natives.

Philo had adopted the term Logos from Greek philosophy, using it in place of the Hebrew concept of Wisdom ( sophia ) as the intermediary ( angel ) between the transcendent Creator and the material world.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

After c. 500 BC the Persian term " Paradise " ( Hebrew פרדס, pardes ), meaning a royal garden or hunting-park, gradually became a synonym for Eden.

The term " holy spirit " only occurs three times in the Hebrew Bible.

( Found once in Psalm 51: 11 and twice in Isaiah 63: 10, 11 ) Although, the term " spirit " in the Hebrew Scriptures, in reference to " God's spirit ", does occur more times.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

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.

Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Its widespread usage led to the gradual adoption of the Aramaic alphabet for writing the Hebrew language.

The attempts to discover a derivation for the name, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, or other, have not been entirely successful:

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

A Hebrew treatise on computational astronomy dated to AD 1378 / 79, alludes to the Atlantis myth in a discussion concerning the determination of zero points for the calculation of longitude:

* The original order (), used for lettering, derives from the order of the Phoenician alphabet, and is therefore similar to the order of other Phoenician-derived alphabets, such as the Hebrew alphabet.

In particular, the chief Hebrew name for God in scholastic tradition, El, must be derived of a different Adamic name for God, which Dante gives as I.

Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

He served on the faculty of Hebrew Union College ( HUC ), the main seminary of Reform Judaism, in Cincinnati for five years.

Heschel saw the teachings of the Hebrew prophets as a clarion call for social action in the United States and worked for black civil rights and against the Vietnam War Heschel was an activist for civil rights in the United States.

Heschel argues for the view of Hebrew prophets as receivers of the " Divine Pathos ," of the wrath and sorrow of God over his nation that has forsaken him.

In 1965, he founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and began his monumental work on the Talmud, including translation into Hebrew, English, Russian, and various other languages.

), while generally using the Septuagint and Vulgate, now supplemented by the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, as the textual basis for the deuterocanonical books.

He was also the one responsible for replacing the title God in the Hebrew texts to read ' Lord of Hosts.