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The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law. [96]
It is the oldest example of the family of West Semitic scripts such as the Phoenician, Paleo-Hebrew, and Aramaic alphabets (including the Hebrew alphabet). The so-called "long alphabet" has 30 letters while the "short alphabet" has 22. Other languages (particularly Hurrian) were occasionally written in the Ugarit area, although not elsewhere.
[12] [5] Some other tablets include scribal exercises; [13] some of them are unique for being the earliest known abecedaries, lists of letters in alphabetic cuneiform, where the canonical order of Hebrew-Phoenician script is evidenced, and one of them might even indicate the traditional names for letters of the alphabet.
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 God of ...
A Hebrew tetractys in a similar way has the letters of the Tetragrammaton (the four lettered name of God in Hebrew scripture) inscribed on the ten positions of the tetractys, from right to left. It has been argued that the Kabbalistic Tree of Life , with its ten spheres of emanation, is in some way connected to the tetractys, but its form is ...
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet , is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [ 1 ] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early ...
As the Jews considered Hebrew to be the language of God, and the Hebrew script to be the literal writing of God, the texts could not be destroyed even long after they had served their purpose. [24] The Jews who wrote the materials in the Genizah were familiar with the culture and language of their contemporary society.
The word IVRIT ("Hebrew") written in modern Hebrew language (top) and in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (bottom) Hebrew (Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית , ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ʔivˈʁit] ⓘ or [ʕivˈrit] ⓘ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.