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One month in the calendar of Emar, known from Akkadian texts and unattested elsewhere, was named Marzaḥānu.The last offering of this month is "brought" by LÚ. MEŠ mar-za-ḫu [12] (the men of the marzaḥu); the verb "brought" describing an offering is rare in Emar, and this is an indication for a procedure that is peculiar to the role of the marzaḥu.
Filipino Catholic and Aglipayan veneration of the dead finds its greatest expression in the Philippines is the Hallowmas season between 31 October and 2 November, variously called Undás (based on the word for "[the] first", the Spanish andas or possibly honra), Todos los Santos (literally "All Saints"), and sometimes Áraw ng mga Patáy (lit.
The Hebrew version is alav ha-shalom (m.) / aleha ha-shalom (f.) (Hebrew: עליו השלום (m.) / עליה השלום (f.)). It is abbreviated in English as A"H. The Hebrew abbreviation is ע״ה . This phrase is the same as the Islamic honorific peace be upon him (which is used for all prophets of Islam).
New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12] The modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by Despina Liozidou Shermister, first published in 2018; The Oxford English Hebrew dictionary, published in 1998 by the Oxford ...
The words included in the dictionary are Hebrew words from the above sources. Occasionally, Ben-Yehuda also added some Arabic, Greek and Latin words from the Mishna and the Gmara that he believed were necessary (for example the words "אכסניה" ( en': Motel ) and "אכסדרה" ( en': porch ) which appear in the dictionary in their Aramaic ...
Canaanite religious practices included animal sacrifice, veneration of the dead, and the worship of deities through shrines and sacred groves. The religion also featured a complex mythology , including stories of divine battles and cycles of death and rebirth.
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 ...
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