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  2. Almah - Wikipedia

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    Almah (עַלְמָה ‎ ‘almā, plural: עֲלָמוֹת ‎ ‘ălāmōṯ), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman sexually ripe for marriage. [1] Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew , scholars agree that it refers to a woman of ...

  3. Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon - Wikipedia

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    The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.

  4. Biblical Aramaic - Wikipedia

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    Biblical Hebrew is the main language of the Hebrew Bible. Aramaic accounts for only 269 [10] verses out of a total of over 23,000. Biblical Aramaic is closely related to Hebrew, as both are in the Northwest Semitic language family.

  5. Eve - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that the Hebrew name Eve (חַוָּה) also bears resemblance [9] to an Aramaic word for "snake" (Old Aramaic language חוה; Aramaic חִוְיָא). The origin for this etymological hypothesis is the rabbinic pun present in Genesis Rabbah 20:11, utilizing the similarity between Heb. Ḥawwāh and Aram. ḥiwyāʾ.

  6. Rahab - Wikipedia

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    Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.Rahab (/ ˈ r eɪ h æ b /; [1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large" "رحاب") was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who resided within Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had been sent to scout the city ...

  7. Category:Women in the Hebrew Bible - 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.

  8. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Al-Sarkha (Bakhah), Jubb'adin, and Maaloula - the three remaining Syrian villages that still speak Western Aramaic; Aramaic alphabet; Babylonian Exile; Bible translations; Ketef Hinnom scrolls, the oldest surviving scrolls of the bible; List of biblical names; List of cuneiform signs; List of Egyptian hieroglyphs; Peshitta, a Syriac translation ...

  9. Aramaic - Wikipedia

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    Syriac alphabet. Aramaic (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ארמית, romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ [a]) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia [3] [4] and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written ...