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  2. Names of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The Lord sees, Hebrew Adonai-jireh, in Vulgate Latin Dominus videt. In the opinion of some Rabbinic commentators, the combination of Yir'eh (יראה) with Shalem (שלם) is the origin of the name Jerusalem (ירושלם). Oasis of Justice, Hebrew Neveh Tzedek (נווה צדק), Tiberian Hebrew נְוֵה-צֶדֶק Nəwēh Ṣeḏeq (Jeremiah ...

  3. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This script itself descends from the Phoenician alphabet, an ancestral alphabet that additionally gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Nabataean Aramaic evolved into Nabataean Arabic , so-called because it represents a transitional phase between the known recognizably Aramaic and Arabic scripts.

  4. List of people in both the Bible and the Quran - Wikipedia

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    Rabbinic (Hebrew) Notes Bible Verse Quaranic Verse Aaron: Hārūn/ Haarūn: Aharon Exodus 7:1: Quran 19:28 [1] Abraham: Ibrāhīm/ Ebraheem/ Ebrahim/ Ibrāheem: Avraham Genesis 17:3–5: Quran 2:124: Adam: Ādam: Adam: Genesis 5:2: Quran 3:59: Amram: ʿImrān/'Emrān: Amram Islamic tradition holds both Amram and Joachim are named the same.

  5. Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    The root l-ḥ-m means "meat" in Arabic, but "bread" in Hebrew and "cow" in Ethiopian Semitic; the original meaning was most probably "food". The word medina (root: d-y-n/d-w-n) has the meaning of "metropolis" in Amharic, "city" in Arabic and Ancient Hebrew, and "State" in Modern Hebrew. There is sometimes no relation between the roots.

  6. Joktan - Wikipedia

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    According to Arab genealogy, South Arabians descend from Qahtan who is identified with Joktan. There is an Arab tradition that Joktan was the progenitor of all the purest tribes of Southern Arabia. [2] Joktan has been identified with Qahtān (Arabic: قحطان), the ancestral figure of Qahtanites, in traditional Arab genealogy. [3]

  7. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    (1) Early 9th century script used no dots or diacritic marks; [13] (2) and (3) in the 9th–10th century during the Abbasid dynasty, Abu al-Aswad's system used red dots with each arrangement or position indicating a different short vowel.

  8. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet emerges in the Second Temple period, from around 300 BC, out of the Aramaic alphabet used in the Persian empire. There was, however, a revival of the Phoenician mode of writing later in the Second Temple period, with some instances from the Qumran Caves , such as the Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll dated to the 2nd or 1st ...

  9. Etymology of Arab - Wikipedia

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    The adjectival noun ʿaravi formed from ʿarav is used in Isaiah 13:20 and Jeremiah 3:2 for a desert dweller. It is typically translated Arabian or Arab and is the modern Hebrew word for Arab. The New Revised Standard Version uses the translation "nomad" for the verse in Jeremiah.