Learning Hebrew requires a brief period of madness, and that's not for everybody, and certainly not for the fainthearted. Etymology of the name Hebrew The name Hebrew comes from the verb אבר (abar), meaning to pass over or through: Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical ...
In Japanese, the word pronounced tora (as in the movie title "Tora Tora Tora," the code name for the December, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor) means "tiger." The same pronunciation in Hebrew, usually Romanized as torah, has the basic meaning of "Law", and is often used to mean the ...
Abraham, a time-honored moniker that hasn’t lost any of its allure over the years, derives its meaning from the biblical figure Abraham, who was also an important figure in American history. It is a name that might be used for a future leader, and it also has some adorable nicknames, ...
Changes in, or omissions of, the vowels alter the meaning of a root. Prefixes and suffixes are also added to roots to modify the meaning. There are two genders, masculine and feminine, which are found in the inflection of the verb as well as in noun forms. Modern Hebrew has experienced...
Peter, the Head Apostle. His birth name was Shimeon bar-Yona (Simon, son of John). Since the Greek-language Septuagint Bible that Jesus used for daily reading did not have a sh sound, our Gospels usually render his birth name Simon, as close as we can get in English translations. In...
Berkeley lucidly describes Simon's Flesh and Nerves, Simon's Mentality, Simon's Memory, The Control of Simon, Simon's Thinking, and Simon's Computing and Reasoning. He also advocates for these new mechanical brains...In
The meaning of the Hebrew names of the sons of Jacob (Genesis 29 and 30) Sons of Leah Reuben רְאוּבֵן “Look A Son” (is born to me) Simeon שִׁמְעוֹן “One Who Hears” Levi לֵוִי “Being Attached” “Joined” Judah ...
jaboc's uncle, rachel steals his household gods, makes jacob work for him for 14 years mezuzah box with shema put in your house, touch it as you enter/exit, meaning is to take love our of your house and share it w/ world moses name means "to draw out", killed a man, does not ...
For you will be speaking into air. There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning. But if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a barbarian to the speaker and the speaker a barbarian to me. . . Therefore, he who s...
This paper explores the distribution of proper names in construct phrases in Modern Hebrew, and uses the construct phrase as a diagnostic for distinguishing both different types of proper names and different uses of proper names. It is shown that in Mode