Hebrew, an ancient northwest Semitic language, has served as the principal language of Judaism, even after the Jews ceased to speak Hebrew as their everyday language. The Hebrew Scriptures (‘Old Testament,’‘written Torah’) of ancient Israel were mainly in Hebrew. Brief sections of Ezra and...
The Gezer calendar is written without any vowels, and it does not use consonants to imply vowels even in the places where later Hebrew spelling requires it. The Shebna lintel, from the tomb of a royal steward found in Siloam, dates to the 7th century BCE. Numerous older tablets have ...
Ezra has a lot going for it: the strength of its heroic Biblical legacy, its quirky sound, and its fresh but familiar feel. Ezra is now at its highest point ever, but its intuitive streamlined spelling and deep roots could make it a worth successor to Elijah in the Top 10 -- or even...
but based on averse-by-verse readof Isaiah 1-11, I found just one error in Logos compared to the print text. TheAccordancetext of Göttingen for Isaiah, by contrast, had 14 spelling mistakes, misplaced
The Masorites, as subsequently the grammarians, had to differentiate between the several forms of the words found in the Biblical text, to unite the similar ones into groups, to register the peculiarities of the text, and to formulate rules for spelling and reading. But their work shows no ...
The word for train ticket is כַּרְטִיסkartis, and in Modern Hebrew it can mean "ticket" or "card" (as in credit card, greeting card, membership card, etc.) It first appears inTalmudic Aramaic meaning "document"and sometimes has the variant spellingקַרְ...
Part of Speech: AdjectiveTransliteration: echadPhonetic Spelling: (ekh-awd')Short Definition: one NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origina prim. card. numberDefinitiononeNASB Translation151,450* (1), 41,500* (2), 61* (1), 61,000* (1), 621* (2), 721* (1), alike (1), all at once ...
In fact, to judge from the hieroglyphical inscriptions in the Pyramid of Medum, it seems that this was the earliest spelling of the word. Thus Amenhetep would be Amenhept. Now Hept (Gr.<>Επτα) in Egyptian also signifies the number seven. This may be related to the work of ...
Bedeyah: "servant of Yah," an IsraeliteOriginal Word: בֵּדְיָהPart of Speech: Proper Name MasculineTransliteration: BedeyahPhonetic Spelling: (bay-de-yaw')Definition: "servant of Yah", an Israelite NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord...
Transliteration: Pokereth HatstsebayimPhonetic Spelling: (po-keh'-reth tseb-aw-yeem')Definition: "bindress of the gazelles", head of a postexilic family NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Originfrom an unused word and tsebiDefinition"bindress of the gazelles," head of a postexilic family...