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It is connected to the passage in Exodus 3:14 in which God gives his name as אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, translated most basically as "I am that I am" or "I shall be what I am". In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), it is the personal name of God, revealed directly to Moses. [ 1] These usages have been the ...
t. e. Chokmah ( Hebrew: חָכְמָה, romanized : ḥoḵmā, also transliterated as chokma, chokhmah or hokhma) is the Biblical Hebrew word rendered as "wisdom" in English Bible versions ( LXX σοφία sophia, Vulgate sapientia ). [ 1] It is the second of the ten sefirot in Kabbalah, and represents the first power of conscious intellect ...
Yahweh[ a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [ 4] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [ 5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [ 6] and ...
Look up codex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Leningrad Codex ( Latin: Codex Leningradensis [ Leningrad Book]; Hebrew: כתב יד לנינגרד) is the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization. According to its colophon, it was made in Cairo in AD 1008 (or ...
Serpents ( Hebrew: נָחָשׁ, romanized : nāḥāš) are referred to in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in the religious traditions and cultural life of ancient Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan. [ 1] The serpent was a symbol of evil power and chaos from the ...
The Book of Leviticus ( / lɪˈvɪtɪkəs /, from Ancient Greek: Λευιτικόν, Leuïtikón; Biblical Hebrew: וַיִּקְרָא, Wayyīqrāʾ, 'And He called'; Latin: Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses. [ 1] Many hypotheses presented by ...
The Five Scrolls or the Five Megillot ( Hebrew: חמש מגילות [χaˈmeʃ meɡiˈlot], Hamesh Megillot or Chomeish Megillos) are parts of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third major section of the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ). [1] The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther.
Teraphim ( Hebrew: תְּרָפִים, romanized : tərāfīm) is a word from the Hebrew Bible, found only in the plural, and of uncertain etymology. [ 1] Despite being plural, teraphim may refer to singular objects. Teraphim is defined in classical rabbinical literature as "disgraceful things", [ 2] but this is dismissed by modern etymologists.