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 ...
R’ Sa’adia Gaon translated this passage (into Arabic) adding the word for chalot (‘loaves’). Rashi solved the problem by writing ‘this is the mincha chadasha (‘the new meal offering’ - feminine) mentioned above.’ Similarly when this phrase occurs in 1 Samuel (10:4) it would ap...
feminine of 'tebach' (2874) and meaning the same:--flesh, slaughter. 2879 tabbachahtab-baw-khaw' feminine of 'tabbach' (2876); a female cook:--cook. 2880 Tibchathtib-khath' from 'tibehah' (2878); slaughter; Tibchath, a place in Syria:--Tibhath. 2881 tabaltaw-bal' a primitive...