Yahalom is similar to a Hebrew word meaning hit hard, so some people think that it means diamond.

* Joseph Yahalom, Hebrew poetry

The ICEC has a special unit, called Yahalom ( in Hebrew it means " Diamond " but also abbreviation of " Engineering Unit for Special Operations ") which handles EOD, commando, demolition and sabotage, engineering recon, advance robotics, tunnel warfare, maritime breaching, counter-NBC, and other classified tasks.

The name " Yahalom " ( Diamond in Hebrew ) is an abbreviation of " Special Operations Engineering Unit ".

After 2004 APC incident the Rafah tunnel team was united with the Combat Engineering Corps elite unit Yahalom and was renamed Sayeret Samur (" Samur " means " Weasel " in Hebrew ).

The word Yahalom appears to be connected with the Hebrew meaning strike hard, and possibly with the word hallamish meaning flint ; hallamish is connected to the Assyrian word elmeshu, referring to a precious stone which was hard, and possibly white, or at least with an insignificant colour, and from which whole rings were sometimes made.

Important scholars of piyyut today include Shulamit Elizur and Joseph Yahalom, both at Hebrew University.

Yahalom is usually translated by the Septuagint as an " onyx ", but sometimes as " beryl " or as " jasper "; onyx only started being mined after the Septuagint was written, so the Septuagint's term " onyx " probably does not mean onyx – onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings.

Sayeret Yahalom is a classified unit and almost none of its special activities are exposed to the public. Public accounts of its activities usually just credit a " combat engineering force "; a term that can equally describe regular Engineering sappers, IDF Caterpillar D9 operators and infantry engineering companies.

Most of the equipment that Yahalom has developed for its missions is classified.

In the IDF, the demolition experts are united in Sayeret Yael of Yahalom ( Sayeret is the Israeli name for SF elite unit ) and therefore gain high infantry training as well.

Sayeret Yahalom specializes in special engineering missions that include:

Yahalom also uses the up-armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer and the remote-controlled " Raam HaShachar " version of the D9 ( which were found extremely useful for special operation and CT duties ), an armored Excavator with drills, the IDF Puma CEV, and Nakpuma, a Nakpadon APC modified to Yahalom's requirements.

In the IDF, they are a part of the elite Engineering unit Yahalom.

The unit dates back to 2004 when the IDF merged the Southern Command Philadelphi Route Smuggling tunnel experts team into Yahalom to form the SAMOOR platoon.

Two Israeli EOD teams gained high reputation for leading the efforts in that area: the Army's Israeli Engineering Corps ' Sayeret Yahalom and the Israeli Border Guard Gaza-area EOD team.

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

# The Coalition ( Orlev, Yahalom, Finkelstein )-had voted to stay in the coalition, but vowed to quit when a Jewish settlement dismantled.

Jane's Defence Weekly has claimed that Sayeret Yahalom are working closely with Sayeret Matkal and Shayetet 13, by providing them with demolition, explosive and sabotage skills.

Yahalom maintains secrecy to make it more difficult for enemies to develop countermeasures.

* Recent reports indicate that Yahalom has acquired remote-controlled robots that it can insert into tunnels, obviating the need for human operators to risk their lives.

Soldiers from Yahalom at the end of a concluding military exercise.

Yahalom bomb disposal experts and IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers cleared most of Hizbullah's IEDs.

* Yahalom ( in the masoretic text ) / Onychion ( in the Septuagint )-in some other places the Septuagint instead has Beryllios where the masoretic reads Yahalom.

A few scholars have suggested that Yahalom may refer to diamonds, owing to their hardness, though the skill of cutting diamonds had not been discovered before the classical era.

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

Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet.

He heard a voice in the Hebrew language ( probably Aramaic ): " Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

This had the consequence that it could not any longer be regarded immutable, and hence Hebrew could not be regarded as identical with the language of Paradise.

Dante concludes ( Paradiso XXVI ) that Hebrew is a derivative of the language of Adam.

In this noble prayer are evinced profound religious feeling and exalted thought, as well as ability to use the Hebrew language in a natural, expressive, and classical manner ( Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah i. 57a ).

He learned Greek himself in order to become useful to his people and Shimon, then under the Roman proconsuls, that language having become, to a considerable extent, the rival of the Hebrew even in prayer ( Yer.

This comes from the use of the word " Hebrew " to designate a people instead of a language: the Hebrew Bible is the Bible of the Hebrew people.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

The Hebrew language has no capital letters.

Its principal founder was Rabbi Zecharias Frankel, who had broken with the German Reform Judaism in 1845 over its rejection of the primacy of the Hebrew language in Jewish prayer and the rejection of the laws of kashrut.

In the 9th or 10th century, Yehuda Ibn Quraysh compared the phonology and morphology of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, but attributed this resemblance to the Biblical story of Babel, with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph retaining Adam's language, with other languages at various removes becoming more altered from the original Hebrew.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

Epoch ), a Hebrew language newspaper published in 1862 and 1874 – 1931

Among the arguments scholars give for a later dating of the book are language and style ( i. e. the vocabulary and syntax as compared to the late Hebrew and Aramaic, which suggest that the book should be dated later ).

The Hebrew Bible used poetic language consistent with that of the ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, such as in the Enuma Elish, which described a circular earth with a solid roof, surrounded by water above and below, as illustrated by references to the " foundations of the earth " and the " circle of the earth " in the following examples:

The word emet ( אמת, " truth " in the Hebrew language ) written on a golem's forehead is one such example.

An excerpt from Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, featuring various magical Sigil ( magic ) | sigils ( or סגולות, seguloth, in Hebrew language | Hebrew ).