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Ze'ev (Hebrew: זְאֵב, Zeév), also spelled Zeev or Zev, is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning wolf. [1] Diminutive forms of the name are Zevik and Ze'evik.
Zev Wolf or Ze'ev Wolf (Yiddish: זאב-וואָלף) is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet. "Ze'ev" (Hebrew: זאב, romanized: zeév) means "wolf", and "Wolf" has the same meaning in Yiddish and German. [1]: 138 Notable people with the name include: Zev Wolf of Zbaraz (died 1822), Hasidic rabbi; Zev Wolf of Zhitomyr (died 1798 ...
Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik became known as The Brisker Rov when he succeeded his father as rabbi of Brisk. He was often known by the name Velvel', a Yiddish nickname for "little wolf". (Zev is Hebrew for "wolf".) He is also commonly known as the "GRYZ" or "HaGRYZ," an acronym for (Ha)Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Zev ("[the] genius
Oreb (/ ˈ ɔːr ɛ b /) [1] is a Hebrew Old Testament name, meaning raven while Zeeb means wolf. [2] By the time of the Judges, Oreb and Zeeb were raiding Israel with the use of swift camels , until they were decisively defeated by Gideon ( Judges 7:20–25 ).
In Hebrew, Sabbatai means Saturn, and in Jewish tradition, "the reign of Sabbatai", the highest planet, was often linked to the advent of the Messiah. [14] Zevi's family was from Patras and of either Ashkenazi (according to Encyclopaedia Judaica ) [ 10 ] or Spanish descent (according to The Jewish Encyclopedia ). [ 13 ]
When transliterating foreign words into Hebrew. For example, Rashi often uses Hebrew letters to write French translations of Biblical Hebrew, marking it with a gershayim like an abbreviation (ex. אפייצימנ״טו appaisement, cf. "And thou wast pleased with me," Gen. 33:10). He usually appends בְּלַעַ״ז ("in the local language ...
Yavetz was a member of the Hebrew Language Committee, and coined several modern Hebrew words, including tarbut (culture) and kvish (road). [2] After falling out with Baron Rothschild's administrators he moved to Vilna. In 1902, he helped to found the Mizrachi movement and became the editor of its periodical HaMizrachi.
The commandment regarding niddah, found in the same chapter, uses the same Hebrew verb meaning "to flow", even though its laws are somewhat different from that of the zav or zavah (Leviticus 15:19). In the second year after the Exodus from Egypt, when the Israelites were about to travel, they were commanded to send the zav outside the camp ...