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Biblical Hebrew has a limited vocabulary, with fewer words than other languages, such as English or Spanish. [1] [a] Hence words often have multiple meanings, with the exact meaning determined by context. [9] In Strong's Lexicon, yom is Hebrew #3117 יוֹם [10] The root meaning is to be hot as the warm hours of a day.
May 1: Labour Day, national holiday [2] Second Thursday after Pentecost, May or June: Corpus Christi, national holiday [4] August 16: Restoration Day, national holiday [2] [5] September 24: Our Lady of Mercy (Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes), national holiday [2] November 6: Constitution Day, national holiday [2] December 25: Christmas Day ...
A New Concordance of the Bible (full title A New Concordance of the Bible: Thesaurus of the Language of the Bible, Hebrew and Aramaic, Roots, Words, Proper Names Phrases and Synonyms) by Avraham Even-Shoshan is a concordance of the Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, first published in 1977. The source text used is that of the Koren edition of 1958.
The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration (Spanish: Guerra de la Restauración), called War of Santo Domingo in Spain (Guerra de Santo Domingo), [2] was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between Dominican nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.
In the Évian Conference, the Dominican Republic was one of the only countries to accept large number of Jews fleeing from Europe. [1] About 3,000 Jewish refugees established the town Sosúa in north of the Dominican Republic. [2] In 1947 the Dominican Republic is one of the countries to vote in favor the Partition Plan.
Santes (or Xantes) Pagnino (Latin: Xanthus Pagninus) (1470–1536 [1]), also called Sante Pagnini or Santi Pagnini, was an Italian Dominican friar, and one of the leading philologists and Biblical scholars of his day.
The Hebrew Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim "Day of the Atonement/s". In the Hebrew calendar, the ninth day of Tishrei is known as Erev Yom Kippur (Yom Kippur eve). Yom Kippur itself begins around sunset on that day and continues into the next day until nightfall, and therefore lasts about 25 hours. [5] Observant Jews will fast throughout Yom ...
An alternate understanding is that this is not a proper name but a Hebrew phrase meaning "bridge of the mother-city" (e.g. Revised Version), which would refer to the Philistine capital at Gath. [2] The parallel text at 1 Chronicles 18:1 refers to Gath and this interpretation is followed also by the NLT, ASV, and NASB.