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  2. List of Christian terms in Arabic - Wikipedia

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    These terms are included as transliterations, often accompanied by the original Arabic-alphabet orthography. Although Islam is the dominant religion among Arabs, there are a significant number of Arab Christians in regions that were formerly Christian , such as much of the Byzantine empire 's lands in the Middle East , so that there are over ...

  3. Tsade - Wikipedia

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    Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ṣād ص ‎, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, Hebrew ṣādī צ ‎, Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, and Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ. Its oldest phonetic value is debated, although there is a variety ...

  4. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: The Country of Akkad Belshazzar (Son of Nabonidus) (King of Babylonia) Person 585 BC: 539 BC: Babylonian cuneiform: Pronunciation: Bēl-šar-uṣur Meaning: Bel, protect the king Bethlehem (Beth Lehem) (This is the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ. However some scholars believe he was born in Nazareth. See the main article for more ...

  5. List of biblical names - Wikipedia

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    The titles given to characters, locations, and entities in the Bible can differ across various English translations. In a study conducted by the BibleAsk team in 2024, a comprehensive catalog of names found in the King James Version was compiled and organized into categories such as individuals, geographical locations, national groups, and ...

  6. Bet (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Bāʾ is the first letter of the Quran [ 1:1], the first letter of Basmala. [1] The letter bāʾ as a prefix may function as a preposition meaning "by" or "with". Some tafsirs interpreted the positioning of bāʾ as the opener of the Qur'an with "by My (God's) cause (all is present and happen)". [2]

  7. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    Written as ا or 𐪑, spelled as ألف or 𐪑𐪁𐪐 and transliterated as alif, it is the first letter in Arabic and North Arabian. Together with Hebrew aleph, Greek Α and Latin A, it is descended from Phoenician ʾāleph, from a reconstructed Proto-Canaanite ʾalp "ox". Alif has the highest frequency out of all 28 letters in the Arabic ...

  8. Waw (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic wāw و ‎, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו ‎, Phoenician wāw 𐤅, and Syriac waw ܘ. It represents the consonant [ w ] in classical Hebrew , and [ v ] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [ u ] and [ o ] .

  9. Nabataean script - Wikipedia

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    The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet. In turn, a cursive form of Nabataean developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century, [3] which is why Nabataean's letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Aramaic-derived Hebrew) and those of Arabic. Inscription in the Nabataean script.