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  2. Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    The first complete Bible was first published in northern Urdu in 1843 - translated by Henry Martyn. The Revised Version (URD) Kitab-e-Muqaddas of 1943 was published by both the Bible Society of India and the Pakistan Bible Society. It was translated from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Minor revisions were published in 1955, 1989, 1998 ...

  3. Judeo-Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Judeo-Urdu (Urdu: یہود اردو, romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanized: ūrdū yehūdīt) [1] was a dialect of the Urdu language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th century.

  4. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    Many early Bible translators, when they came across some unusual Hebrew words or proper names, used the Arabic cognates. In the newer translations this practice is discontinued. They now turn to Greek names or use the original Hebrew Word. For example, the name Jesus was initially translated as 'Isa (Arabic: عيسى), but is now spelt as Yesus.

  5. Tzedakah - Wikipedia

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    Tzedakah (Hebrew: צְדָקָה ṣədāqā, [ts(e)daˈka]) is a Hebrew word meaning "righteousness", but commonly used to signify charity. [1] This concept of "charity" differs from the modern Western understanding of "charity".

  6. Weekly Torah portion - Wikipedia

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    Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.

  7. Jewish greetings - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew script Translation Pronunciation Language Explanation Shalom: שָׁלוֹם ‎ Hello, goodbye, peace Hebrew A Hebrew greeting, based on the root for "completeness". Literally meaning "peace", shalom is used for both hello and goodbye. [6] A cognate with the Arabic-language salaam. Shalom aleichem: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם ‎

  8. Levantine Arabic vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew loanwords can be written in Hebrew, Arabic, or Latin script, depending on the speaker and the context. Code-switching between Levantine and Hebrew is frequent. In one study, 2.7% of all words in conversations on WhatsApp and Viber were Hebrew borrowings, mostly nouns from the domains of education, technology, and employment.

  9. Q-D-Š - Wikipedia

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    From a basic verbal meaning "to consecrate, to purify", it could be used as an adjective meaning "holy", or as a substantive referring to a "sanctuary, sacred object, sacred personnel." [1] The root is reflected as q-d-š (Phoenician 𐤒-𐤃-𐤔 ‎, Hebrew ק-ד-ש ‎) in Northwest Semitic and as q-d-s (Arabic: ق-د-س) in Central and ...