The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

These scholars say that the Hebrew word kashaph, used in Exodus 22: 18 and 5 other places in the Tanakh comes from a root meaning " to whisper ".

According to the Tanakh, Cuthah was one of the five Syrian and Mesopotamian cities from which Sargon II, King of Assyria, brought settlers to take the places of the exiled Israelites ().

The Book of Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.

The mentions in the Tanakh tend to be historical or prophetic, while New Testament references are more likely figurative, or cryptic references possibly to pagan Rome, or some other archetype.

* Classical Hebrew ( the language of the Tanakh, in particular of the prophetic books of ca.

In its prophetic form as Ruach HaKodesh it is derived from the Talmud equating Divine Inspiration ( Ruach haKodesh ), and a Divine Voice as the word used to refer to the Spirit of God, or Holy Spirit, in the Tanakh.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

Karaite Judaism does not recognize the Oral Law as a divine authority, maintaining that the Written Torah, and the subsequent prophets which God sent to Israel, whose writings are recorded in the Tanakh, are the only suitable sources for deriving halakha, which Karaite Judaism maintains, must not deviate from the plain meaning of the Hebrew Bible.

The " holy spirit " ( also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ) and Jewish writings to refer to the Spirit of Yahweh.

Ketuvim or Kəṯûḇîm ( in " writings ") is the third and final section of the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), after Torah ( instruction ) and Nevi ' im ( prophets ).

His writings demonstrate mastery of the Tanakh, the Talmud, and the rabbinical commentaries and codes of Jewish law.

The movements share a recognition that the Torah and other Jewish spiritual writings such as Tanakh and Talmud are central to Jewish experience.

Although evidently widely known at the time of the Development of the Hebrew Bible canon, 1 Enoch was excluded from both the formal canon of the Tanakh and the typical canon of the Septuagint and therefore, also the writings known today as the Deuterocanon.

* The Tanakh ( the redacted collection of Jewish religious writings from the period )

The Greeks use the word Anagignoskomena ( Ἀναγιγνωσκόμενα " readable, worthy to be read ") to describe the books of the Greek Septuagint that are not present in the Hebrew Tanakh.

Each of the seventy Tikunim of Tikunei haZohar begins by explaining the word " Bereishit " ( בראשית ), and continues by explaining other verses, mainly in parashat Bereishit, and also from the rest of Tanakh.

The word is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the three traditional subdivisions of the Tanakh: The Torah (" Teaching ", also known as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") and the Ketuvim (" Writings ").

Although the word " Torah " refers specifically to the Five Books of Moses, in Judaism the word also refers to the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), the Talmud and other religious works, even including the study of Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mussar and much more.

The word shedim appears only twice ( always plural ) in the Tanakh, at and.

Additionally, there are two types of " false prophet " recognized in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ): the one who claims to be a prophet in the name of idolatry, and the one who claims to be a prophet in the name of the God of Israel, but declares that any word or commandment ( mitzvah ) which God has said no longer applies, or makes false statements in the name of God.

Mikra ( also spelled Miqra ) ( מקרא ) is a Hebrew word derived from קרא, Kärä, meaning " that which is read ", and refers to the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh.

" It is mentioned several times in the Mishna and Talmud, and had been used extensively in kabbalistic literature due to the Gematria value of 135 ( number of occurrences in Tanakh ) being equal to the word HaSinai ( הסיני ) in.

The word gibborim is used in the Tanakh in excess of 150 times and applied to men as well as lions ( Book of Proverbs 30: 30 ), hunters ( Genesis 10: 9 ), soldiers ( Book of Jeremiah 51: 30 ) and leaders ( Book of Daniel 11: 3 ).

Where the Tetragrammaton occurs in Tanakh quotations, instead one finds a single Hebrew He ( ה ) except in one place where the word " ha-shem " ( השם, the name ) is spelled out.

In Judaism, the word Dīn ( Hebrew: ד ִּ ין ) appears in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ), which occurs 24 times.

The Hebrew word for their scripture, the Torah ( also known as the Five Books of Moses or the Pentateuch ) means instructions, that is why Tawrat does not refer to the entire Tanakh or Old Testament.

is a Hebrew word, which is the first word of the Torah ( the first five books of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible ).

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

The subject of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, is the history of the Children of Israel, especially in terms of their relationship with God.

Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe.

The messiah is expected to have a relationship with God similar to that of the prophets of the Tanakh.

A monotheistic religion originating in the Hebrew Bible ( also known as the Tanakh ) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel.

At its core, the Tanakh is an account of the Israelites ' relationship with God from their earliest history until the building of the Second Temple ( c. 535 BCE ).

* It is the first holiday mentioned in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), and God was the first one to observe it ( Genesis.

Rabbinic Judaism holds that the books of the Tanakh were transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition, as relayed by God to Moses and from him handed on to the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation.

In general, essential doctrines of Messianic Judaism include views on God ( that he is omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal, outside creation, infinitely significant and benevolent — viewpoints on the Trinity vary ), Jesus ( who is believed to be the Jewish Messiah, though views on his divinity vary ), written Torah ( with a few exceptions, Messianic Jews believe that Jesus taught and reaffirmed the Torah and that it remains fully in force ), Israel ( the Children of Israel are central to God's plan ; replacement theology is opposed ), the Bible ( Tanakh and the New Testament are usually considered the divinely inspired Scripture, though Messianic Judaism is more open to criticism of the New Testament canon than is Christianity ), eschatology ( sometimes similar to many evangelical Christian views ), and oral law ( See also Christian Oral Tradition-observance varies, but most deem these traditions subservient to the written Torah ).

The Tanakh contains prophecies from various Hebrew prophets ( 55 in total ) who communicated messages from God to the nation of Israel, and later the population of Judea and elsewhere.

The phrase Torah Judaism implies a belief and practice of Judaism that is based on the inclusion of the entire Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, and all the rabbinic authorities that followed as sources of conducting oneself in life, and on the premise that the Torah emanates directly from God as revealed at Mount Sinai.

This belief is also reflected in ancient Judaism, which used the Tetragrammaton ( YHWH, usually translated as "< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;"> Lord </ span >" in small caps ) to refer to God " safely " in the Tanakh.

Biblical references as well as rabbinic literature support this view: Moses refers to the " God of the spirits of all flesh " (), and the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) also identifies prophets outside the community of Israel.

While rejecting the religious forms of both Judaism and Christianity, the Hebrews maintain the divine inspiration of the Tanakh, as well as valuing the New Testament as a record of the words of Yeshuah, one of an ongoing line of ' messiahs ' sent by God to keep the people of Israel in the ways of righteousness.

This Injil is one of the four Islamic Holy Books the Qur ' an records as revealed by God ( see Allah ), the others being the Zabur ( possibly the Psalms ), the Tawrat ( the Torah, or Tanakh ), and the Qur ' an.