An early Israelite tradition (Josh. xxiv. 2) interpreted the word "Hebrew" as meaning the people whose ancestors had dwelt in the land beyond the River Euphrates (A. V. "on the other side of the flood"). Similar to this use of "'eber ha-nahar" for "the region beyond the river,"...
This name is possibly based upon the root "ʕ-b-r" (עבר) meaning "to cross over". Interpretations of the term "ʕibrim" link it to this verb; cross over and homiletical or the people who crossed over the river Euphrates.[3] In the Bible, the Hebrew language is called...
meaning "fire" and "six-edged thorn"), he took the "thorn" to mean a tetrahedron and constructed a model of it, placing the "fire," or torus "vortex" form, inside.
except by Palestinian speakers) or are lost. Thesyntaxis based on that of theMishna. Characteristic of Hebrew of all stages is the use of word roots consisting usually of three consonants, to which vowels and other consonants are added to derive words of different parts of speech and meaning...
The modern style of written Hebrew is called the Ashuri or Ashurit style (Ktav Ashuri), which is the Hebrew word for Assyrian, but it also carries a second meaning: the root of the word ashuri also suggests beauty. The Ashuri script was adopted during the Babylonian captivity, a period...
It is difficult to ascertain the meaning of the following ועםעםוכלשון, “and the language of various peoples.” The Septuagint ignores the entire expression, while the Vulgate associates it to אשדודית, as other spoken languages, not without a ...
The system of vowel points is called nikud. Hebrew uses a very structured system in which three letter roots are applied to a pattern to determine the meaning and part of speech of the word. Since Hebrew is so structured, nikud is not used in an everyday context. Israelis know which vo...
Against this view stands the opinion generally accepted nowadays that unlike [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] in fact derived from an original substantive meaning "place," the Hebrew equivalent of the Assyrian agru, and the Arabic and Aramaic [TEXT NOT REP...
They contended also that the fundamental meaning of the biliterals is to be ascertained from the meaning of the letters composing each, and for this purpose they assigned to each letter what the former called "significatio hieroglyphica," and the latter "valor logicus." This last is the ...
from an unused root meaning to sting; a thistle:--brier. 5622 carbalsar-bal' (Aramaic) of uncertain derivation; a cloak:--coat. 5623 Cargownsar-gone' of foreign derivation; Sargon, an Assyrian king:--Sargon. 5624 Ceredseh'-red from a primitive root meaning to tremble; trembling; Sered...