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David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern: David, Tiberian: Dāwîḏ) means ' beloved ', derived from the root dôwd (דּוֹד), which originally meant ' to boil ', but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in the figurative usage ' to love '; specifically, it is a term for an uncle or figuratively, a lover/beloved (it is used in this way in the Song of Songs: אני לדודי ודודי לי, ' I am ...
David is also richly represented in post-biblical Jewish written and oral tradition and referenced in the New Testament. Early Christians interpreted the life of Jesus of Nazareth in light of references to the Hebrew Messiah and to David; Jesus is described as being directly descended from David in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke.
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage.
The first Paleo-Hebrew inscription identified in modern times was the Royal Steward inscription (KAI 191), found in 1870, and then referred to as "two large ancient Hebrew inscriptions in Phoenician letters". [4] [5] Fewer than 2,000 inscriptions are known today, of which the vast majority comprise just a single letter or word.
The Apostrophe to Zion, written as a love poem to Zion, is one of two non-Masoretic compositions that are complete in the Great Psalm Scroll. It has the "same style as three biblical apostrophes in Isaiah 54:1-8, 60:1-22, 62:1-8" and another copy of this composition can be found in 4Q88.
Psalm 37 in Hebrew and English - Mechon-mamre; Text of Psalm 37 according to the 1928 Psalter; Of David. / Do not be provoked by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong. text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 37:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com; Psalm 37 – "Wisdom Over Worry ...
Psalm 34 is the 34th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth." The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
The Arabic and Hebrew alphabets have similarities because they are both derived from the Aramaic alphabet, which in turn derives either from paleo-Hebrew or the Phoenician alphabet, both being slight regional variations of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet used in ancient times to write the various Canaanite languages (including Hebrew, Moabite ...