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  2. Shaitan - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a shaitan by Siyah Qalam, c. 14th/15th century. The art-style of Uighur or Central Asia origin was used by Muslim Turks to depict various legendary beings. [1]A shaitan or shaytan (Arabic: شَيْطَان, romanized: shayṭān; pl.: شَيَاطِين shayāṭīn; Hebrew: שָׂטָן; Turkish: Şeytan or Semum, lit. 'devil', 'demon', or 'satan') is an evil spirit in Islam, [2 ...

  3. Satan - Wikipedia

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    When used without the definite article (simply satan), it can refer to any accuser, [11] but when it is used with the definite article (ha-satan), it usually refers specifically to the heavenly accuser, literally, the satan. [11] The word with the definite article Ha-Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן hasSāṭān) occurs 17 times in the ...

  4. Beelzebub - Wikipedia

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    Beelzebub or Ba'al Zebub (/ b iː ˈ ɛ l z ə b ʌ b, ˈ b iː l-/ [1] bee-EL-zə-bub, BEEL-; Hebrew: בַּעַל־זְבוּב ‎ Baʿal-zəḇūḇ), also spelled Beelzebul or Belzebuth, and occasionally known as the Lord of the Flies, is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron.

  5. Devil in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In reaching the New Testament we are struck by the unitariness, clearness, and definiteness of the outline of Satan." [58] The New Testament Greek word for the devil, satanas, which occurs 38 times in 36 verses, is not actually a Greek word: it is transliterated from Aramaic, but is ultimately derived from Hebrew. [52]

  6. 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'.

  7. Shedim - Wikipedia

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    The clawed and scaly feet of a fowl, undisguisable feature of the (otherwise mutable) anatomy of the shedim The bird-footed night shedah (goddess/she-devil) of the Burney relief (Isin-Larsa or Old Babylonian period circa 1800 BCE) In early midrashim, shedim are corporeal beings. If they take on human forms, their feet would remain that of a ...

  8. Help:IPA/Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hebrew on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hebrew in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  9. Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe - Wikipedia

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    The word "aleppe" could be an Italian version of the word for "alef", the Hebrew letter א (a) (compare Phoenician alep and Greek alpha). The consonant shift here is comparable to that in Giuseppe, the Italian version of the name Joseph. In Hebrew, alef also means "number one" or "the origin that contains everything". It may also be interpreted ...