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  2. Nun (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Nun is believed to descend from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a snake (the Hebrew word for snake, nachash begins with Nun) or eel. Some [citation needed] have hypothesized a hieroglyph of fish in water as its origin (In Aramaic and Akkadian nun means fish, and in Arabic, nūn means large fish or whale).

  3. Modern Hebrew phonology - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels, [1] depending on the speaker and the analysis. Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two millennia. As a consequence, its pronunciation was strongly influenced by the vernacular of individual Jewish communities. With the revival of ...

  4. List of Hebrew abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    To indicate a double meaning, where both the gematria of the word or phrase should be taken, as well as the plain meaning. For example, to give chai חַ״י (meaning "life" as pronounced, and "eighteen" as a gematria) dollars to tzedakah means to give eighteen dollars to tzedakah, thereby giving another person life, and drawing the blessings ...

  5. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A Hebrew variant of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, called the paleo-Hebrew alphabet by scholars, began to emerge around 800 BCE. [13] An example is the Siloam inscription (c. 700 BCE). [14] The paleo-Hebrew alphabet was used in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

  6. Ichthys - Wikipedia

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    Ichthys was adopted as a Christian symbol.. The ichthys or ichthus (/ ˈ ɪ k θ ə s / [1]), from the Greek ikhthū́s (ἰχθύς, 1st cent.AD Koine Greek pronunciation: [ikʰˈtʰys], "fish") is (in its modern rendition) a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.

  7. Amen - Wikipedia

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    Amen (Hebrew: אָמֵן, ʾāmēn; Ancient Greek: ἀμήν, amḗn; Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, 'amīn; [1] Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn) is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation [2] which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. [3]

  8. Gefilte fish - Wikipedia

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    With gefilte fish being a Sabbath dinner staple, and the commandment in Genesis for fish to be "fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas", [16] fish at Sabbath meals took on the patina of an aphrodisiac, the sages believing that "the intoxicating [fish] odor on the Sabbath table would encourage couples to 'be fruitful and multiply ...

  9. Rafe - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in Hebrew, the rafe also changes ג ‎ [g] into גﬞ ‎ ([d͡ʒ] or [t͡ʃ]), ז ‎ [z] into זﬞ ‎ [ʒ], and in words of Semitic origin also ש ‎ ([s] or [ʃ]) into שﬞ ‎ [ʃ]. In words of Romance origin, [s] is spelled as ס ‎, freeing up ש ‎ for the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] without the need for a rafe to ...