... Interpretation of Greek Names Used by John 5. Interpretation of Hebrew Names 6. Greek and Latin Equivalents of Hebrew Names 7. Inconsistencies of Text or Translation 8. Vulgate and Septuagint 9. Hebrew Texts of Septuagint and English Versions of the Bible 10. Equivalence of Hebrew and Greek Names 11. Interpretation of Greek Names Used by ... met with in any attempt to translate the Greek and Hebrew names mentioned in the Bible into names that would be ... possible, the kind of stone to which a Greek or Hebrew name was applied at the time when the word ...
... Statement of Other Views IX. ORIGINAL LANGUAGES 1. Composed in Hebrew 2. Margoliouth's View X. VERSIONS 1. Greek 2. Syriac ... alike of the Eastern and Western churches. I. Name. The Hebrew copy of the book which Jerome knew bore, according to ... by the author's name, "Ben Sira" (ben cira'). The Hebrew fragments found in recent years have no title attached to ... virtuous (one)," or (Clement of Alexandria) paidagogos, "teacher." The first Hebrew and the several Greek titles describe the subject-matter, one Hebrew title (ben cira') the author. But the Latin name Ecclesiasticus ... Acira', called also the Book of the Wisdom of Baruch (= Hebrew ben, "son of") 'Acira'." There can be no doubt ...
... SEMITIC LANGUAGES 1. Members of Semitic Family 2. The Name Hebrew 3. Old Hebrew Literature II. HISTORY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE 1. Oldest Form of Language 2. The Hebrew of the Old Testament 3. Its Uniformity 4. The Cause ... Foreign Influences 8. Poetry and Prose 9. Home of the Hebrew Language 10. Its Antiquity 11. When Hebrew Became a Dead Language III. CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF HEBREW ...
POETRY, HEBREW definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia po'-et-ri: I. IS ... Imaginative 2. In Form, Emotional and Rhythmical II. NEGLECT OF HEBREW POETRY: CAUSES III. CHARACTERISTICS OF HEBREW POETRY, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL 1. External or Formal Characteristics (1 ... Rhythm (4) Parallelism (5) Other Literary Devices (6) Units of Hebrew Poetry (7) Classification of Stichs or Verses 2. Internal or Material Characteristics (1) Themes of Hebrew Poetry (2) Species of Hebrew Poetry IV. POETICAL WRITINGS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. ...
... in Canaan 5. Orthography of the Period II. THE TWO HEBREW SCRIPTS 1. The Old Hebrew Alphabet 2. Aramean Alphabets 3. The New Hebrew Script 4. New Hebrew Inscriptions 5. Summary III. THE CHANGE OF SCRIPT 1. Various ... of about the year 896 of the ordinary chronology; a Hebrew agricultural calendar of the 8th century; fifteen lion-weights from ... ostraca show some attempt at elegant writing. II. The Two Hebrew Scripts. 1. The Old Hebrew Alphabet: Two distinct scripts ...
... or rather of seventy-two interpreters. This translation from the Hebrew is supposed have been made in the reign and by ... years more from the creation to Abraham, than the present Hebrew copies of the Bible. Encyc. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005 ... the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II Merriam ... extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew, presumably made for the use of the Jewish community in ... influence was far-reaching. The Septuagint rather than the original Hebrew Bible was the main basis for the Old Latin, Coptic ... 1500 years more from the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible. Easton's Bible Dictionary See VERSIONS. International Standard ...
Hebrew definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary HE'BREW, n. [Heb. Eber ... a descendant of Eber; an Israelite; a Jew. 1. The Hebrew language. HE'BREW, a. Pertaining to the Hebrews; as the Hebrew language or rites. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1 ... or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews; "the old Hebrew prophets" [syn: Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrew] 2: of or relating to the language of the Hebrews; "Hebrew vowels" [syn: Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrew] n 1: the ancient ...
... horasis "vision," "prophecy"; ophis, "serpent"; sphragisamenos, "having sealed"; choris, "except," Hebrew or Aramaic words: chatham, "to seal"; zepha', "pitch"; za`apha ... AND DATE OF COMPOSITION Probably not in Babylon; perhaps the Hebrew text originated in Palestine about 146 BC or later. The ... is the only piece having a necessary connection with the Hebrew canonical Book of Daniel; in the Greek and Latin texts ... each other, though in all three as also in the Hebrew Book of Daniel the name and fame of Daniel stand ... rigidly keep the latter separate from the books of the Hebrew canon. III. Contents. The stories of Bel and of the ... The king (Cyrus according to Theodotion) remonstrates with the delinquent Hebrew, pointing Out to him the immense amount of food ...
... this attribute is ascribed to God in passages where the Hebrew words denoting faithfulness do not occur. It is implied in ... awaken trust in God (De 7:9; Ps 36:5 (Hebrew 6); Isa 11:5; Ho 12:6,9). (For fuller ... of religious trust (De 32:4,15; Ps 18:2 (Hebrew 3); 42:9 (Hebrew 10); Isa 17:10, etc.). This same attribute is also ... faithfulness of God. This can be seen also from the Hebrew words which are used to express this quality of God ... 7:9; Isa 49:7; and possibly Ho 11:12 (Hebrew 12:1)). A similar use is made of the ...
... to ancient Jewish books that are not part of the Hebrew Bible but are considered canonical in Roman Catholicism and Eastern ... Vulgate versions of the Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible. Usage: Modern Bibles sometimes include them in the Old ... books, formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews of Palestine. The Council of ... now have it. (2.) These books were written not in Hebrew but in Greek, and during the "period of silence," from ... because many of the books at least were written in Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, and because all of ... worthy, these 24 books representing undoubtedly the books of the Hebrew Old Testament. The remaining 70 were to be kept ...
... PROPER definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia I. THE FORM OF HEBREW NAMES 1. Various Types 2. Vocalization 3. Transposition of Parts ... Concern 3. Allusions Linked with Names I. The Form of Hebrew Names. 1. Various Types: The Hebrew proper name consists of a single word, a phrase, or ... to the laws of accent and quantity which govern the Hebrew word. (1) A common noun used as a name undergoes ... King James Version of the Old Testament, occurs in the Hebrew text in the four forms perets, parets, pherets and pharets ... Elpalet, meaning "God is deliverance," represent the variations of the Hebrew due to the causes already mentioned (1Ch 3:8; ...
... in the same context. Without making any change in the Hebrew consonants we can and should read for "dead (methe) Israelites ... as the Law or more correctly as authoritative instruction. The Hebrew word for this last (torah) bears in this connection, it ... Ps 70:2 ff). Ps Sol were written originally in Hebrew, and references to Pompey (died 48 BC) and to the ... Greek (see below, IV) and that it never had a Hebrew original. Now it is exceedingly unlikely that a writer of a Hebrew psalm would copy a Greek original, though the contrary supposition ... portion of the book at least was written originally in Hebrew. (1) In the Syro-Hex. text there are margin ...
COMMENTARIES, HEBREW definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia he'-broo: 1. Philo Judaeus ... Aramaic version of the Old Testament, as contrasted with the Hebrew text which was called miqra'. The Targum includes all the ... and trade, as soon as a familiar knowledge of the Hebrew tongue came to be lost. The Targumim are: TO THE ... Qimchis were the most brilliant contributors to Bible exegesis and Hebrew philology (like Ibn Ezra) in medieval times. (6) Maimonides: Maimonides ... work is pseudepigraphic, written partly in Aramaic and partly in Hebrew. It first appeared in Spain in the 131h century, and ... the critical annotations connected with the various editions of the Hebrew Bible, based upon the comparison of manuscripts, on grammatical ...
... the Canon 3. Number of Psalms 4. Titles in the Hebrew Text II. AUTHORSHIP AND AGE OF THE PSALMS 1. David ... The Future Life LITERATURE I. Introductory Topics. 1. Title: The Hebrew title for the Psalter is cepher tehillim, "book of praises ... outbursts of thanksgiving in many others, the fitness of the Hebrew title dawns upon us. As Ker well says, "The book ... and "Psalter." The Greek word psalmos, as well as the Hebrew mizmor, both of which are used in the superscriptions prefixed ... in the kethubhim or "Writings," the third group of the Hebrew Scriptures. As the chief book of the kethubhim, the Psalter ... as part of the Hagiographa, the 3rd division of the Hebrew Bible. 3. Number of Psalms: According to the Hebrew ...
... by the context and not expressed in the original languages (Hebrew yelidh bayith, "one born in the house"; Greek soma, "body"). However, the Hebrew word `ebhedh, in the Old Testament and the Greek word ... conception. The word "slave" in this article refers to the Hebrew slave unless otherwise designated. 1. Acquiring of Slaves: Slaves might ... There are many instances of buying slaves (Le 25:39 ). Hebrew slavery broke into the ranks of every human relationship: a ... sale (Ex 21:7 ). (2) Exchange. Slaves, i.e. non-Hebrew slaves, might be traded for other slaves, cattle, or provisions ... to be bondsmen" (2Ki 4:1). (4) Gift. The non-Hebrew slave, and possibly the Hebrew slave, could be acquired ...