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  2. Chesed - Wikipedia

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    "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love" (NRSV 1989) In Judaism , love is often used as a shorter English translation. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Political theorist Daniel Elazar has suggested that chesed cannot easily be translated into English, but that it means something like 'loving covenant obligation'. [ 9 ]

  3. Category:Hebrew Bible words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Jewish views on love - Wikipedia

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    Commenting upon the command to love the neighbor [5] is a discussion recorded [6] between Rabbi Akiva, who declared this verse in Leviticus to contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Genesis 5:1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam; in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"), as the verse expressing the ...

  5. Agape - Wikipedia

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    The word agape received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted Christian love or charity (1 Corinthians 13:1–8), or even God himself. The expression "God is love" (ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν) occurs twice in the New Testament: 1 John 4:8;16.

  6. Category : Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible

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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.

  7. List of Jewish prayers and blessings - Wikipedia

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    Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who sanctified us with His commandments, and hoped for us, and with love and intent invested us with His sacred Sabbath, as a memorial to the deed of Creation. It is the first among the holy festivals, commemorating the exodus from Egypt.

  8. Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    The number of distinct words in the Hebrew Bible is 8,679, of which 1,480 are hapax legomena, [61]: 112 words or expressions that occur only once. The number of distinct Semitic roots , on which many of these biblical words are based, is roughly 2000.

  9. Mizpah (emotional bond) - Wikipedia

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    Laban and Jacob make a covenant together, as narrated in Genesis 31:44–54. Mizpah (מִצְפָּה miṣpāh, mitspah) is Hebrew for "watchtower". It is mentioned in the biblical story of Jacob and Laban, where a pile of stones marks an agreement between two people, with God as their watching witness.