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  2. Korban - Wikipedia

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    The Semitic root qrb (קרב) means ' be near ' [10] and is found in a number of related languages in addition to Hebrew, e.g. in the Akkadian language noun aqribtu, meaning ' act of offering '. In Hebrew it is found in a number of words, such as qarov, ' close ', qerovim, ' relatives ', and the hifʕil verb form hiqriv, ' he brought near ...

  3. Qurban (Islamic ritual sacrifice) - Wikipedia

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    The word is related in spelling and meaning to the Hebrew: קרבן, romanized: qorbān "offering" and Classical Syriac: ܩܘܪܒܢܐ, romanized: qurbānā "sacrifice", through the cognate Arabic triliteral as "a way or means of approaching someone" or "nearness". [4]

  4. Holy Qurbana - Wikipedia

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    The East Syriac word Qurbana is derived from the Syriac word qurbānā (ܩܘܪܒܢܐ ‎), which, along with its meaning of Eucharist, may also mean offering, sacrifice, or gift. It is from the root Q-R-B, related to approaching. It is a cognate with Hebrew itself a Syriac word קרבן qorbān and Arabic قربان qurbān.

  5. Holy Qurobo - Wikipedia

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    The Syriac word qurobo is derived from the Aramaic term qurbana (ܩܘܪܒܢܐ). When the Temple stood in Jerusalem, and sacrifices were offered, "qorban" was a technical Hebrew term for some of the offerings that were brought there. It comes from a Hebrew root, "qarab", meaning "to draw close or 'near'".

  6. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time; Glossary of mathematical symbols; Japanese punctuation; Korean punctuation; Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).

  7. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with its vocalization and accentuation known as the mas'sora.

  8. Shedim - Wikipedia

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    In both instances, the text deals with child sacrifice or animal sacrifice. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Although the word is traditionally derived from the root ŠWD ( Hebrew : שוד shuḏ ) that conveys the meaning of "acting with violence" or "laying waste," [ 9 ] it was possibly a loanword from Akkadian , in which the word shedu referred to a spirit that ...

  9. List of Hebrew exonyms - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.