Questions tagged [hebrew]
Hebrew, a West Semitic language, is the ancient and modern language of the Jewish people.
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Hebrew and lucifer [closed]
Here this Christian apologist mentions at 10:15 to 10:45 that hilal is related to the Hebrew word for lucifer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGcRx-zu54 And mainly
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Why does Arabic transliterate the Hebrew ץ as س and not ص?
From this Wiktionary entry:
word-final form of צ; final sadhe, tsadi, tzaddik
From the Wiktionary entry for sadhe:
Arabic: صَاد (ar) m (ṣād), ص (ar) (ṣ) (symbol)
Example of a hebrew word with that ...
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Is עובר related to the English "over"?
I am now carrying out my second attempt to collect many inexplicable downvotes on this site...
At any rate, the Hebrew verb עובר, which would probably be לעבור in the infinitive if my conjecture that ...
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Etymology of the Hebrew word התגובות [closed]
What is the etymology of the Hebrew word התגובות?
Similar to "Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis", is there a similar book for Hebrew that explains etymology of various words?
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Difference between פִ פֿ in Hebrew
I am confused between the letter fey and pey and the letter pey with niqqud. For context, I took both the letters above from the word "fish" in the dish name "gefilte fish".
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All possible Hebrew and Yiddish characters (including niqqud)
I am trying to bruteforce a solution to a puzzle which I suspect to be a word written using the Hebrew alphabet. It might be written using niqqud and it might not.
In order to understand how long my ...
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What is the morphology of the Biblical Hebrew word גואל?
גוֹאֵל means "redeemer" according to the Jastrow dictionary, and comes from the root גאל, "to redeem". To my semi-trained eye this feels like it should be a participle form, but ...
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Does conservative orthography promote "phonetic denial"?
Are there speech-communities that assert that the gemination (still) present in their orthography (still) exists in their pronunciation, but audio analysis does not support this assertion?
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How likely is it that Old Medean /ṛ/ and /b/ would have been rendered in Biblical Hebrew as /ħ/ and /w/?
I've recently been doing some research involving a possible connection between the names Astibaras (a named Diodorus Siculus used to refer to Cyaxares the Mede) and Ahasuerus (the name of both the ...
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Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Sprachbund
I would like to know whether there is any research on the interactions between Bronze Age languages of the Near and Middle East like Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Persian and Hittite, in a way ...
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Would Deut 33:20 be considered an example of compound indefinite direct objects in Hebrew?
The Hebrew for Deuteronomy 33:20 reads:
וּלְגָד אָמַר בָּרוּךְ מַרְחִיב גָּד כְּלָבִיא שָׁכֵן וְטָרַף זְרוֹעַ אַף־קָדְקֹד
The English translation (KJV) for Deuteronomy 33:20 reads:
And of Gad he said, ...
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What is the pi'al form in Hebrew?
I have seen scattered references to a pi'al conjugation, which I understand to be similar to, but distinct from, pi'el.
For example, for ק-ד-ש, I have seen קִדַּשׁ and קִדֵּשׁ. My impression is, ...
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When are Shva and Qhataf-Pataqh used in Biblical Hebrew?
In Tiberian Hebrew, Shva Na and Hataf Patach were both pronounced like Hataf Patach. (I will be discussing Shva Na, not Shva Nach, in this question.)
However, in other dialects, Shva was pronounced ...
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Uniquenesses of Hebrew
Franz Philipp Kaulen, S.J. (1827-1907)
was impressed in favor of [ancient] Hebrew by the following facts:
In no other language is there such an intimate relation between nouns and their objects;
the ...
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How to ascertain the gender of the subject in a sentence in Hebrew?
In Hebrew, we, of course, read from right to left. Take the following sentence, for example:
המורה למוזיקה אומרת לדני לא להתרגעש לפני הקונצרט
ha-moreh/morah le-muzikah omeret le-Dani lo lehitragesh ...
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What does the tilde between two words mean on Pealim? [closed]
Examples are like this: מֻחְצֶנֶת ~ מוחצנת. What does it mean that there are two words under each header?
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What transliteration/romanization scheme does Strong's Hebrew Dictionary use?
I can't find anywhere a description of how to convert the Strong Hebrew Dictionary pronunciation transliteration entries into IPA, or a close approximation to IPA. What romanization scheme are they ...
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Is vav-consecutive unique to Hebrew?
Is vav-consecutive (converting perfect to imperfect and vice versa) unique to Biblical Hebrew or are there similar features in other languages, beyond the Afroasiatic family ?
See also this answer to ...
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Is the concept in Hebrew, of long vowels and short vowels , a purely grammatical thing, or a a statement about how the vowel is sounded, or both?
Is the concept in Hebrew, of long vowels and short vowels , a purely grammatical thing, or a a statement about how the vowel is sounded(in length or anything else?), or both(how it's sounded plus ...
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In Classical/Biblical Hebrew, why is CHAF not considered a guttural?
According to "A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew" by Jacob Weingreen, page 19, the four gutturals are ALEF (א), HEI (ה), CHET (ח), and AYIN (ע). And gutturals make a difference as to ...
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Are there any common Hebrew or Koine Greek markers for when a sentence is a summary of a previous thought?
Question pertains to the Hebrew Scriptures, and the Septuagint, so it may be more appropriate in a different SE. But, in case this is an acceptable place to ask:
Are there any ancient Hebrew or Koine ...
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What languages use a conceptual parallel to the Hebrew verb ירש?
The Hebrew verb ירש is loosely translated to mean "inherit," but does not quite mean the same thing as the English word inherit because the Hebrew verb refers to an heir inheriting his ...
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does modern Hebrew have spelling pronunciations?
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that ...
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Do classical Arabic verb forms have a passive-active relationship like some Hebrew "buildings" do?
In Hebrew, the 7 verb forms (or "buildings") can be associated into passive-active pairs, e.g. Pa'al - Nif'al, Hef'il-Huf'al, Pi'el-Pu'al (and Hitpa'el on its own). So we can say e.g. "...
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If Hebrew is not related to Slavic, why are there apparent sound correspondences?
We have
Hebrew: šeš;
Russian: šestʹ;
Ukrainian: šistʹ;
Latin: six;
English: six;
Hebrew: yeš;
Russian: yestʹ;
Ukrainian: ye, isnuye;
Latin: est;
English: is;
Hebrew: ze;
Russian: se;
Ukrainian: сe [...
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Why are telling and counting related in many languages?
In many languages, verbs for telling a story are based on or related to verbs for counting. There are (at least) three groups of such verbs:
English "recount", French "conter" and ...
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What is the name of this Hebrew pronunciation at 0:58?
The pronunciation is guttural but at the same time the pronunciation is the kind of pronunciation that Classical Latin and the Romance languages have! For example, the pronunciation of the Classical ...
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How did Shiloah (שילוח) become Siloam and Silwan?
What sorts of changes led the Biblical Hebrew name Shiloah (שילוח) to become Siloam (in Greek) and Silwan (in Arabic)? Has this been discussed anywhere?
EDITED I removed the word morphological from my ...
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Is Hebrew more efficient and more grammatically logical than English? [closed]
Grammatically logical - this is possible, vs zeh yachol lhiyot. Let's break down the English way for a moment -- the words don't actually connect with each other in a logical sequence. 'This is' has ...
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Change reason for ISO 639 Hebrew language code from iw-IL to he-IL
I saw that in 1989, the ISO 639 standard changed the code for for Afro-Asiatic Hebrew (עברית) from iw-IL to he-IL. I was trying to look for the reasons for this change but I couldn’t find any.
Was iw-...
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Why do the Hebrew characters look so different from Greek, Latin, even Phoenician?
Why do the Hebrew characters look so different?
See, for example: chart of letters
If I look at Greek, Phoenician, etc. I can still see similarities (maybe with rotations or flipping of characters) ...
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Is it OK to render Hebrew words with the final form missing?
I am an english-speaking software developer who has recently added support for the rendering of right-to-left languages in the software I maintain. This involved using ICU to find visual runs of text ...
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Is there a shared word for "word" and "thing" in any language other than Hebrew?
The Hebrew word דבר has a dual meaning because it can mean "word/speak" and also "thing." Contemporary Kabbalists use this dual meaning to argue for a metaphysical connection ...
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Is there a common ancestor between the Hebrew לבן ("lavan", white) and the English "albino"?
I noticed these two words share the same central consonants, and wouldn't it be fascinating if the l-b-n semitic root has a common source to the English "albin-" as in albino and albinism?
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Relationship between "גולגולת" (skull) and "גלגל" (wheel)
Both "גולגולת" (skull) and "גלגל" (wheel) are listed, on Wiktionary, as coming from the shared root ג־ל־ג־ל. All of the other words except for גולגולת have clear relationships to ...
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Hebrew: Shamayim. Is it always in plural? [closed]
The Hebrew suffix ים (Yud + Mem) is a masculine plural.
The word Shamayim seems to always end in plural;
Genesis 1:1 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם translated; the heavens.
Genesis 1:8 שָׁמָ֑יִם translated; heaven.
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Why is this 𓏭 Egyptian hieroglyph associated with the Hebrew letter ז [Zayin] and not the word וָו [VaV]?
Why is this 𓏭 Egyptian Hieroglyph associated with the Hebrew letter ז [Zayin] and not the word וו [VaV]?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet] claims the 𓏭 pictogram is the origin ...
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Why is the question mark like this in Hebrew language? [closed]
I have tried an interrogative sentence on Google Translate from English to Hebrew and that was "How old are you?"
It translated as what you see in the picture. (of course Hebrew is right to ...
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Does the root word mus- in Latin mean "thief"'? Mouse=thief, Moses=Extractor etc
I first got the idea of Latin mus- = mouse = thief from this list
My primary question here is whether someone can confirm this, because I have not found any direct words in Latin that indicates that ...
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What is the best romanization of ח?
I have seen ח represented as ch, gh, kh, H (capitalized), x, h with diacritics, etc.
Personally, I like using x, because it is a single letter and does not require special diacritic markings, etc ...
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Does Biblical Hebrew have a plural of majesty?
Does Biblical Hebrew have a plural of majesty?
I'm aware there's the word Elohim which can mean God or gods.
But I don't think that's good evidence of plural of majesty because for example, you have a ...
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English word that uses the Hebrew ר sound?
Is there an English word that makes the more guttural "Resh (ר)" sound found in Hebrew?
For example, even though the Hebrew letter Chet (ח) is not found in English, English speakers can be ...
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Language for which there is no suppletion for : first-one, premier-un. And the Hebrew case
Are there languages for which the word "first" is built with the word "one" ?
In many languages I know there exists a suppletion :
English : first-one
French : premier-un
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Did the Greek term 'κεραία' derive from the Ivri term 'Kera' ( כְרָעַ֨ )? [closed]
Did the Greek term 'κεραία' (keraia) derive from the Ivri term 'Kera' ( כְרָעַ֨ )?
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When did the Ivri (Hebrew) possessive pronoun "Shel-y" (של-י) replace the biblical suffix "-y"?
In Modern Hebrew, the possessive pronoun "Shel-y" (של-י) is used for the English possessive pronoun "My".
In Biblical Ivri (עברי), the possessive pronoun for "My" is ...
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Does SAFFA count as a transliteration source? [closed]
http://www.hebrewworks.com/Transliteration.htm
Since the transliterations produced with this program are customizable, I was wondering if this program counts as a source for the existence of the ...
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Polish transliteration of בֵּית, בֵית, הֵא, פֵּא, פֵא, רֵישׁ [closed]
How would you transliterate the letter names בֵּית, בֵית, הֵא, פֵּא, פֵא, רֵישׁ in order to make it as clear as possible to an English speaker that you were using the Polish pronunciation of צירי as [...
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What should I do when transliterating Hebrew letter/vowel names?
I don't like using a transliteration if I haven't seen it being used elsewhere first, but I just can't find some of the spellings I want to use. My concern is this: If e.g. "yhhuh" isn't an ...
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I have read that in Mishnaic Hebrew, some pronounced the 6th letter as waw/w and some as vav/v What is the evidence of this?
I have read that in Mishnaic Hebrew, some pronounced the 6th letter as waw/w and some as vav/v What is the evidence of this?
I see it mentioned here https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/%D7%95-vav-...
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Transliteration/Transcription of מְלאוּפּם [closed]
Notice that there is no vowel point under the פּ. This should probably be considered to be because of the fact that Hebrew is usually written without vowels, but I've never seen it written with a ...
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