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  2. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Elah (Hebrew: אֱלָה, romanized: ʾelāh, pl. Elim or Elohim; Imperial Aramaic: אלהא) is the Aramaic word for God and the absolute singular form of אלהא, ʾilāhā. The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic *ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages' words for god.

  3. Jewish views on love - Wikipedia

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    Commenting upon the command to love the neighbor [5] is a discussion recorded [6] between Rabbi Akiva, who declared this verse in Leviticus to contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Genesis 5:1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam; in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"), as the verse expressing the ...

  4. Elohim - Wikipedia

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    The word el (singular) is a standard term for "god" in Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, and other related Semitic languages including Ugaritic. The Canaanite pantheon of gods was known as 'ilhm , [ 17 ] the Ugaritic equivalent to elohim . [ 18 ]

  5. Shema - Wikipedia

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    The words used in the Shema prayer are similar to the words of verse 1 of Sura 112 (Al-Tawhid or Monotheism) in the Quran: Arabic: قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ, qul huwa llāhu ʾaḥad ("Say, He is God the One"). The word أَحَدٌ, aḥad, in Arabic is a cognate of the word אֶחָד ‎, eḥad, in Hebrew. [46]

  6. Chesed - Wikipedia

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    Chesed (Hebrew: חֶסֶד, also Romanized: Ḥeseḏ) is a Hebrew word that means 'kindness or love between people', specifically of the devotional piety of people towards God as well as of love or mercy of God towards humanity.

  7. Mot (god) - Wikipedia

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    In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death.The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic [4] and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet; ancient Hebrew muth or maveth/maweth); Maltese mewt; Syriac ܡܰܘܬܳܐ (mautā); Ge'ez ሞት (mot); Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות (mwt ...

  8. El Shaddai - Wikipedia

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    According to Ernst Knauf, "El Shaddai" means "God of the Wilderness" and originally would not have had a doubled "d". He argues that it is a loanword from Israelian Hebrew, where the word had a "sh" sound, into Judean Hebrew and hence, Biblical Hebrew, where it would have been śaday with the sound śin.

  9. List of Jewish prayers and blessings - Wikipedia

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    Asking God to bring the Jews back from the Exile into Israel. Mishpat משפט ‎ Asking God to judge us justly and to restore the judges to Israel. Minim מינים ‎ Asking to destroy the heretical sects and informers. This blessing was a later addition to the Amida, and is the 19 blessing. Tzadikim צדיקים ‎