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  2. Tower of Babel - Wikipedia

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    Per the story in Genesis, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb bālal, [e] meaning to jumble or to confuse, after Yahweh distorted the common language of humankind. [11] According to Encyclopædia Britannica, this reflects word play due to the Hebrew terms for Babylon and "to confuse" having similar pronunciation. [7]

  3. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.

  4. Sheshach - Wikipedia

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    Sheshach (Hebrew: ששך), whose king is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Jeremiah 25:26, is supposed to be equivalent to Babel (), according to a secret mode of writing practiced among the Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the first, the next to last one for the second, and so on.

  5. Wikipedia:Conlangs/Babel Text - Wikipedia

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    The Babel Test is, however, a de facto standard for conlang comparisons. A word for God is certainly not an artificial restraint to put on a conculture - indeed the converse seems far more unlikely. Of course, it may be conculturally relevant to decide what word for God you're going to use in the translation - the Hebrew uses the Sacred Name ...

  6. Babel - Wikipedia

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    Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to: Arts and media. Written works. Books. Babel, by Patti Smith; Babel, by Narumi ...

  7. Calneh - Wikipedia

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    In the Revised Standard Version, the English translation of the verse reads: The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. Calneh ("Chalanne") was identified with Ctesiphon in Jerome's Hebrew questions on Genesis (written ca. 390), following Eusebius of Caesarea. [1]

  8. BabelNet - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to WordNet, BabelNet groups words in different languages into sets of synonyms, called Babel synsets. For each Babel synset, BabelNet provides short definitions (called glosses) in many languages harvested from both WordNet and Wikipedia. BabelNet is a multilingual semantic network obtained as an integration of WordNet and Wikipedia.

  9. Composition of the Torah - Wikipedia

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    J was the earliest document, a product of the 10th century BCE and the court of Solomon; E was from the 9th century in the northern Kingdom of Israel, and had been combined by a redactor (editor) with J to form a document JE; D, the third source, was a product of the 7th century BCE, by 620 BCE, during the reign of King Josiah; P (what ...