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  2. Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Karaite interpretation of the Torah strives to adhere to the plain or most obvious meaning of the text; this is not necessarily the literal meaning of the text—instead, it is the meaning of the text that would have been naturally understood by the ancient Hebrews when the books of the Torah were first written—without the use of the Oral Torah.

  3. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤔𐤌𐤔 Pronunciation: Bayawt Shamawsh Meaning: House of Sun Caesar, Augustus (son of Gaius Octavius & Atia) Person 63 BC: AD 14: Latin: AVGVSTVS CAESAR (Augustus Caesar) Pronunciation: Ow-goos-toos Kie-sar Canaan: Nation Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 KNʿN Paleo-Hebrew ...

  4. Torah reading - Wikipedia

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    Torah reading (Hebrew: קריאת התורה, K'riat haTorah, "Reading [of] the Torah"; Ashkenazic pronunciation: Kriyas haTorah) is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll.

  5. Anan ben David - Wikipedia

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    Anan Ben David (Hebrew: ענן בן דוד, c. 715 - c. 795) is widely considered to be a major founder of Karaite Judaism.His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, did not believe the Rabbinic Jewish Oral Torah, such as the Mishnah, to be authoritative.

  6. Q-D-Š - Wikipedia

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    Qudšu was later used in Jewish Aramaic to refer to God. [4]Words derived from the root qdš appear some 830 times in the Hebrew Bible. [9] [10] Its use in the Hebrew Bible evokes ideas of separation from the profane, and proximity to the Otherness of God, while in nonbiblical Semitic texts, recent interpretations of its meaning link it to ideas of consecration, belonging, and purification.

  7. Qere and Ketiv - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener in his 1884 commentary on the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible (a.k.a. the King James Bible) reports 6637 marginal notes in the KJV Old Testament, of which 31 are instances of the KJV translators drawing attention to qere and ketiv, most being like Psalm 100 verse 3 with ketiv being in the main KJV text and ...

  8. Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    It is a translation and updating of the German-language Koehler-Baumgartner Lexicon, which first appeared in 1953, into English; the first volume was published in 1994 [2] the fourth volume, completing the Hebrew portion, was published in 1999, [3] and the fifth volume, on Aramaic, was published in 2000. [4]

  9. Kafr Qara - Wikipedia

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    Kafr Qara (Arabic: كَفْر قَرَع, Hebrew: כַּפְר קַרִע; also spelled Kafr Qari) is an Arab city in Israel 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Haifa. In 2022 its population was 20,018. [ 1 ]