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Tarshish (Phoenician: 𐤕𐤓𐤔𐤔, romanized: tršš; Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ, romanized: Taršiš; Koinē Greek: Θαρσεῖς, romanized: Tharseis) occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (now Lebanon) and the Land of Israel.
In such contexts, it follows the anglicized pronunciation and usually omits any mark between its two As. [6] In close transliteration of the Semitic name, the ayin is represented, as Baʿal. In the Northwest Semitic languages — Ugaritic , Phoenician , Hebrew , Amorite , and Aramaic —the word baʿal signified ' owner ' and, by extension ...
Aleph is the subject of a midrash that praises its humility in not demanding to start the Bible. (In Hebrew, the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, bet.) In the story, aleph is rewarded by being allowed to start the Ten Commandments. (In Hebrew, the first word is anoki (אָנֹכִי ), which starts with an aleph.)
The two most famous Phoenician women are political figures: Jezebel, portrayed in the Bible as the wicked princess of Sidon, and Dido, the semi-legendary founder and first queen of Carthage. In Virgil 's epic poem, the Aeneid , Dido is described as having been the co-ruler of Tyre, using cleverness to escape the tyranny of her brother Pygmalion ...
Canaan's firstborn son was Sidon, who shares his name with the Phoenician city of Sidon in present-day Lebanon. [5] His second son was Heth . Canaan's descendants, according to the Hebrew Bible, include:
In the Syriac alphabet, as in the Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, taw (ܬܰܐܘ ) or tăw (ܬܲܘ or ܬܰܘ ) is the final letter in the alphabet, most commonly representing the voiceless dental stop and fricative consonant pair, differentiated phonemically by hard and soft markings.
Hiram I (Phoenician: 𐤇𐤓𐤌 Ḥirōm "my brother is exalted"; Hebrew: חירם Ḥīrām; also called Hirom or Huram) [1] was the Phoenician king of Tyre according to the Hebrew Bible. His regnal years have been calculated by some as 980 to 947 BC, in succession to his father, Abibaal. Hiram was succeeded as King of Tyre by his son Baal ...
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ ל , Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām ل , and Phoenician lāmd 𐤋. Its sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л).