This very common verb is deployed in all the expectable contexts, from sitting on a chair (1 Samuel 20:25), to God being enthroned (Psalm 8:7), to doing one's business (Deuteronomy 23:14). And from hanging out a few days (Genesis 27:44) to remaining at peace for three years (1...
in Hebrew, are called the ten "dvarim" (using the plural form fordavar,as it appears in Deuteronomy 4:12 and Exodus 34:28).So each so-called "commandment" is really a single "davar".
And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; so that He may teach us about His ways, and that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go out from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem...
A mezuzah is really the scroll inside of a mezuzah case: a klaf, or piece of kosher parchment upon which a sofer—scribe—has written (special ink, special quill) the first two passages of the Shema, Judaism’s central prayer.* The Shema is comprised of key verses from Deuteronomy (6:...
To look at an example of the first critical apparatus, Deuteronomy 6:5 inthe Göttingen editionreads: καὶ ἀγαπήσεις κύριοντὸν θεόν σου ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας σουκαὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχ...
(Deuteronomy 22:6); that is, if the occasion for this commandment should arise, you must do it, and if not, you need not do it. In relation to peace, however, [it is written]: ‘seek peace, and pursue it’ — seek it in your own place, and pursue it even to another place ...
Deuteronomic law (Deut 15:12-18), although also allowing for Hebrew slaves nevertheless contradicts the Elohist version as well by commanding the owner to provide for provisions when the slave is released. We will look at this contradiction more closely when we get to the book of Deuteronomy...
But education in the Hebrew of Scripture and of the Rabbinic writings was integral to the religious nurture of the young (see Neusner, 1987; Sifre to Deuteronomy XLVI:I). Show moreView chapterExplore book Ben Yehuda, Eliezer (1858–1922)*† R. Sivan, in Encyclopedia of Language & ...
(Deuteronomy 22:12; 1 Samuel 15:27). It is therefore entirely possible therefore that כנף refers to the part of a Roman standard bearing the image of an emperor, which was fixed to the end of the pole and was like its "wing." ...
(1), one can him who (1), one the other (1), one to another (1), one will to another (1), one another (4), one thing (2), one thing to another (1), one-tenth (1), one-tenth for each (1), only (2), other (27), other was one (1), outermost* (1), same (25...