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  2. Ish-bosheth - Wikipedia

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    In Hebrew, Ish-bosheth means "Man of shame". [2] He is also called Eshbaal , in Hebrew meaning "Baal exists", [ 2 ] or "fire of Baal". Critical scholarship suggests that Bosheth was a substitute for Baʿal , beginning when Baʿal became an unspeakable word; [ 3 ] as (in the opposite direction) Adonai became substituted for the ineffable ...

  3. Yetzer hara - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, yetzer hara (Hebrew: יֵצֶר הַרַע ‎, romanized: yēṣer haraʿ ‍) is a term for humankind's congenital inclination to do evil.The term is drawn from the phrase "the inclination of the heart of man is evil" (Biblical Hebrew: יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע, romanized: yetzer lev-ha-adam ra), which occurs twice at the beginning of the Torah (Genesis 6:5 and ...

  4. Distributive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    A common distributive idiom in Biblical Hebrew used an ordinary word for man, 'ish (איש ‎). Brown Driver Briggs only provides four representative examples—Gn 9:5; 10:5; 40:5; Ex 12:3. [2] Of the many other examples of the idiom in the Hebrew Bible, the best known is a common phrase used to describe everyone returning to their own homes ...

  5. List of Hebrew abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The resulting words of the rearrangement are marked with gershayim. When listing the letters themselves. For example, ְמְנַצְפַּ״ך menatzpach lists all the Hebrew letters having special final forms at the ends of words. When spelling out a letter. In this way, אַלֶ״ף spells out alef א, and יוּ״ד spells out yud י.

  6. Son of man (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew expression "son of man" (בן–אדם i.e. ben-'adam) appears 107 times in the Hebrew Bible. [1] This is the most common Hebrew construction for the singular, appearing 93 times in the Book of Ezekiel alone and 14 times elsewhere. In thirty two cases, the phrase appears in intermediate plural form "sons of men". [1]

  7. 50 Hebrew Boy Names and Their Meanings - AOL

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    Timeless classics, modern favorites, and totally unique monikers that no one else in your kid’s class will share—you can find it all in the Hebrew Bible. Take a trip back in time to the Old ...

  8. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  9. Tzadik - Wikipedia

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    Joseph interprets Pharaoh's Dream (Genesis 41:15–41). Of the biblical figures in Judaism, Joseph is customarily called the Tzadik.. Tzadik (Hebrew: צַדִּיק ṣaddīq, "righteous [one]"; also zadik or sadiq; pl. tzadikim צדיקים ‎ ṣadīqīm) is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters.