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The Ketuvim ( / kətuːˈviːm, kəˈtuːvɪm /; [ 1] Biblical Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים, Modern: Ktuvim, Tiberian: Kăṯūḇīm "writings") [ 2] is the third and final section of the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), after Torah ("instruction") and Nevi'im ("prophets"). In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually titled ...
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]
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 ...
Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton ( / ˌtɛtrəˈɡræmətɒn / TET-rə-GRAM-ə-ton; from Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον ' [consisting of] four letters'), or the Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ( transliterated as YHWH or YHVH ), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
The employment of unusual forms of language cannot be considered as a sign of ancient Hebrew poetry. In Genesis 9:25–27 and elsewhere the form lamo occurs. But this form, which represents partly lahem and partly lo, has many counterparts in Hebrew grammar, as, for example, kemo instead of ke-; [2] or -emo = "them"; [3] or -emo = "their"; [4] or elemo = "to them" [5] —forms found in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hebrew continued to be used for the writing of religious texts, poetry, and so forth. [24] There are significant differences between the two Talmud compilations. The language of the Jerusalem Talmud is a Western Aramaic dialect, which differs from the form of Aramaic in the Babylonian Talmud. The Jerusalem Talmud is often fragmentary and ...