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The Ketuvim ( / kətuːˈviːm, kəˈtuːvɪm /; [ 1] Biblical Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים, romanized: Kǝṯuḇim, lit. 'Writings') [ 2] is the third and final section of the Hebrew Bible, after the Torah ("instruction") and the Nevi'im "Prophets". In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually titled "Writings" or ...
Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton[ note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ( transliterated as YHWH or YHVH ), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are yodh, he, waw, and he. [ 1]
Yahweh[ a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [ 4] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [ 5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [ 6] and ...
Elohim ( Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים, romanized : ʾĔlōhīm: [ (ʔ)eloˈ (h)im] ), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ ( ʾĔlōah ), is a Hebrew word meaning "gods" or "godhood". Although the word is grammatically plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity, particularly the ...
Keter. Keter or Kether ( Hebrew : כֶּתֶר ⓘ, Keṯer, lit. "crown") is the first of the ten sefirot in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, symbolizing the divine will and the initial impulse towards creation from the Ein Sof, or infinite source. It represents pure consciousness and transcends human understanding, often referred to as ...
A rarer form, ' ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages. [7] The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-. [8] Specific deities known as ' El, ' Al or ' Il include the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion [9] and the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia. [10]
Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible. Partially owing to the significance of the Bible in society, Biblical languages are studied more widely than many other dead languages. Furthermore, some debates exist as to which language is the original language of a particular passage, and about ...
In Judaism and Christianity, it is unclear whether the language used by God to address Adam was the language of Adam, who as name-giver (Genesis 2:19) used it to name all living things, or if it was a different divine language. In Islam, Arabic is the language in which God revealed the final revelation.