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  2. Adam (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Adam is a common masculine given name in the English language, of Hebrew origin. The name derives from Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם), the first human according to the Hebrew Bible . When used as noun, אָדָם means "man" or "humanity".

  3. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin.Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw (ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.

  4. Adamic language - Wikipedia

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    Adam naming the animals as described in Genesis.In some interpretations, he uses the “Adamic language” to do so. The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Adam - Wikipedia

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    Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This ...

  7. Help:IPA/Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hebrew on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hebrew in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  8. Ashkenazi Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Ashkenazi Hebrew (Hebrew: הֲגִיָּה אַשְׁכְּנַזִּית, romanized: hagiyoh ashkenazis, Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, romanized: ashkenazishe havore) is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice.

  9. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic *ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages' words for god. Elah is found in the Tanakh in the books of Ezra , Jeremiah (Jeremiah 10:11, [ 68 ] the only verse in the entire book written in Aramaic), [ 69 ] and Daniel .