The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current Hebrew calendar, it was adopted in Babylonia, and therefore has Akkadian origin.Klein writesthat it derives from an Akkadian word refle...
so the Hebrew word ‘Aleph-Beth’ tells us: ‘Ox <of> House’. The word ‘Aleph-Beth’ in Hebrew means ‘Father’. Father is the Ox: the head of the house.
I see that you are surprised at this 1 " Not surprised that you reject the brute-origin Of mankind, " returned the Greek ; " for that seems to be contrary to the feeling and faith Of all nations but rather surprised that you do not share what I have supposed to be the fashionable ...
“I AM coming soon. Hold on to what you have (your belief in ME) so that no one will take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I willwrite[G# 1125] on him the name of My God, and ...
I’m pretty sure you’re asking this from Christians, but I’m going to put in a different perspective: the Jewish one. (Also, “ask two Jews, get five answers” – my perspective is my own, and that of the people who taught me and are still my teachers in my own faith. Other ...
Tucked into 1 Chroncles is 7:24, a woman who you’ve written about: Sheerah. She built Lower and Upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah. The town was named after her. There’s definitely significance there in having a town named after someone. She stood out in the hundreds of names of ...
Jordanian Arabic place names for springs usually use عين, transliterated ayn or ain, pronounced like “eye” with an n at the end. There’s Ain el Basha, ‘Ain ez Zara, Ain Janna, Ain Musa (where Moses is said to have struck the stone with his staff to create a spring), ...
of the translator Van Dort rather than those of Rahabi or Cohen, understood the project to be an early Enlightenment endeavor, suggesting that it was Van Dort’s ambition as a Jewish intellectual “to broaden the scope of his culture through an acquaintance with another faith, another religion...