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See also: Category:Hebrew Bible people for personal/family names. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. S. Shibboleths (13 P) T.
Cover of Steinberg O.N. Jewish and Chaldean etymological dictionary to Old Testament books 1878. Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch über die Schriften des Alten Testaments mit Einschluß der geographischen Nahmen und der chaldäischen Wörter beym Daniel und Esra (Hebrew-German Hand Dictionary on the Old Testament Scriptures including Geographical Names and Chaldean Words, with Daniel and ...
Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible (2 C, 88 P) Hebrew proverbs (1 C, 1 P) Hebrew slang (5 P) ... List of Hebrew words of Persian origin; Purim Torah; Q.
For the purposes of Wikipedia categories, "Hebrew Bible" refers only to those books in the Jewish Tanakh, which has the same content as the Protestant Old Testament (including the portions in Aramaic). The deuterocanonical books of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblical canons are categorized under Category:Deuterocanonical books.
In Judaism, some regard the practice of counting letters and words as a mitzvah and a virtue. [4] According to the current version, the Hebrew Bible has approximately 22,864 verses, 306,757 Hebrew words, and 1,202,972 Hebrew letters. [5] Out of these, there are 5,845 verses, 79,980 Hebrew words, and 304,805 letters in five books of the Torah. [6]
The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh (Hebrew: תנ"ך ), consists of 24 books. [a] "Hebrew" in "Hebrew Bible" may refer to either the Hebrew language or to the Hebrew people who historically used Hebrew as a spoken language, and have continuously used the language in prayer and study, or both.
In Hebrew, the five books of the Torah are identified by the incipits in each book; [24] and the common English names for the books are derived from the Greek Septuagint [citation needed] and reflect the essential theme of each book: Bəreshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית, literally "In the beginning")—Genesis, from Γένεσις (Génesis ...
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]