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  2. Dalet - Wikipedia

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    The letter dalet, along with the He (and very rarely Gimel) is used to represent the Names of God in Judaism. The letter He is used commonly, and the dalet is rarer. A good example is the keter (crown) of a tallit, which has the blessing for donning the tallit, and has the name of God usually represented by a dalet. A reason for this is that He ...

  3. Jewish views on sin - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible uses several words to describe sin. The standard noun for sin is ḥeṭ (verb: hata), meaning to "miss the mark" or "sin". [4] The word avon is often translated as "iniquity", i.e. a sin done out of moral failing. [5] The word pesha, or "trespass", means a sin done out of rebelliousness. [6]

  4. Resh - Wikipedia

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    Resh is used in an Israeli phrase; after a child says something false, one may say "B'Shin Quf, Resh" (With Shin, Quf, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's an L-I-E."

  5. Peshat - Wikipedia

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    Peshat (also P'shat, פשט ‎) is one of the two classic methods of Jewish biblical exegesis, the other being Derash.While Peshat is commonly defined as referring to the surface or literal (direct) meaning of a text, [1] or "the plain literal meaning of the verse, the meaning which its author intended to convey", [2] numerous scholars and rabbis have debated this for centuries, giving Peshat ...

  6. Biblical Aramaic - Wikipedia

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    Biblical Hebrew is the main language of the Hebrew Bible. Aramaic accounts for only 269 [10] verses out of a total of over 23,000. Biblical Aramaic is closely related to Hebrew, as both are in the Northwest Semitic language family. Some obvious similarities and differences are listed below: [11]

  7. Geresh - Wikipedia

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    resh: r Rāʾ (ر) french r ר׳ ‎ reish with a geresh: Ghayn (غ) Abu Ghosh (أَبُو غوش) Standard simplified: ר׳ ‎ and ע׳ ‎; however, ר׳ ‎ is proscribed by the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Another precise proscribed transcription is גֿ ‎; in some cases of established usage, a ג ‎ with no diacritics is used.

  8. Tiberian Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Because of the proximity of a dental consonant, resh was pronounced as an alveolar trill, as it still is in Sephardi Hebrew. There is still another pronunciation, affected by the addition of a dagesh in the Resh in certain words in the Bible, which indicates it was doubled [ʀː]: הַרְּאִיתֶם [haʀːĭʔiˈθɛm].

  9. Psalm 119 - Wikipedia

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    Like many other psalms, it includes dramatic lament (e.g. verses 81–88), joyous praise (e.g. verses 45–48), and prayers for life, deliverance, and vindication (e.g. verses 132–34). What makes Psalm 119 unique is the way that these requests are continually and explicitly grounded in the gift of the Torah and the psalmist's loyalty to it.