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Jordan is a given name and a surname.. The form found in Western names originates from the Hebrew ירדן Yarden, relating to the Jordan River in West Asia. [1] According to the New Testament of the Bible, John the Baptist baptised Jesus Christ in the Jordan, [2] and during the Crusades, crusaders and pilgrims would bring back some of the river water in containers to use in the baptism of ...
The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern ...
The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [2] [3] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt), and other archaeological sites including Abdah (in Israel) and Mada'in Saleh in ...
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.
The entries are sorted according to the Hebrew alphabet. Prefixes indicating prepositions, conjunctions and articles (such as ב, ד, ה, ו, כ, ל, ש ) have generally been removed, with the following exceptions: Where the acronym is incomprehensible or meaningless without the prefix.
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bāʾ ب , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Hebrew bēt ב , Phoenician bēt 𐤁, and Syriac bēṯ ܒ. . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v
In the Hebrew alphabet gimel directly precedes dalet, which signifies a poor or lowly man, given its similarity to the Hebrew word dal (b. Shabbat, 104a). [8] Gimel is also one of the seven letters which receive special crowns (called tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See shin, ayin, teth, nun, zayin, and tsadi.
Jordan takes its name from the Jordan River, which forms much of the country's northwestern border. [14] While several theories for the origin of the river's name have been proposed, it is most plausible that it derives from the Hebrew word Yarad (ירד), meaning "the descender", reflecting the river's declivity. [15]