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  2. Firmament - Wikipedia

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    In English, the word "firmament" is recorded as early as 1250, in the Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus.It later appeared in the King James Bible.The same word is found in French and German Bible translations, all from Latin firmamentum (a firm object), used in the Vulgate (4th century). [4]

  3. Nasi (Hebrew title) - Wikipedia

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    Nasi (Hebrew: נָשִׂיא, romanized: nāśī) is a title meaning "prince" in Biblical Hebrew, "Prince [of the Sanhedrin]" in Mishnaic Hebrew.Certain great figures from Jewish history have the title, including Judah ha-Nasi, [1] who was the chief redactor of the Mishnah as well as nasi of the Sanhedrin.

  4. Biblical languages - Wikipedia

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    The very first translation of the Hebrew Bible was into Greek.This translation is known as the Septuagint (LXX), a name that derives from a legend that seventy separate translators all produced identical texts; this legend was created to promote the authority of this translation.

  5. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: Yahweh is Salvation Judah, Kingdom of (named after Judah, the son of Jacob and Leah) Nation 930 BC: 586 BC: Judah: Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤃𐤄‎‎ Pronunciation: Yuh-how-wuh-duh Judah Maccabee (son of Mattathias ben Johanan) Person 190 BC: 160 BC: Judah: Hebrew: יהודה Pronunciation: Yehudaw Judah Maccabee: Hebrew ...

  6. Bible translations into Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    A Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible into Modern Hebrew was completed in 2006 and called "the Testimony" or העדות. [3] Published in four volumes, all volumes are translated into simple, modern Hebrew vocabulary by Shoshan Danielson and edited by Baruch Maoz. [4] The "Ram Bible" (Tanakh Ram; תנ"ך רם) began

  7. Wormwood (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    The Biblical Hebrew word לענה (la'anah), translated into English as "wormwood", occurs nine times in the Hebrew Bible, seven times with the implication of bitterness and twice as a proper noun, in the Greek translation, naming the physical meteor in its orbit, in Revelation 8:11.

  8. Mazzaroth - Wikipedia

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    Mazzaroth (Hebrew: מַזָּר֣וֹת, mazzārōṯ, LXX Μαζουρωθ, Mazourōth) is a Biblical Hebrew word found in the Book of Job whose precise meaning is uncertain. Its context is that of astronomical constellations , and some judge it to mean a specific constellation, while it is often interpreted as a term for the zodiac or the ...

  9. Jewish English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    The Koren Jerusalem Bible is sometimes referred to as The Jerusalem Bible, Koren Bible, the Koren Tanakh, or Tanakh Yerushalayim (Hebrew for Jerusalem Bible). In 2021 Koren issued a completely new translation of the Bible, The Koren Tanakh- The Magerman Edition. The translation of the Pentateuch and much of the Book of Psalms was composed by ...