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Major Vivian Gilbert of the British army relates the story of an unnamed brigade major who was reading his Bible while contemplating the situation against the Ottoman forces. The brigade major remembered a town by the name of Michmash mentioned somewhere in the Bible. He found the verses, and discovered that there was a secret path around the town.
Pronunciation: Yeh-hoo-siff bar Kie-yuh-fuh David (Son of Jesse & Nitzevet bat Adael) Person 1035 BC: 970 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: đ¤đ¤ đ¤ Pronunciation: Dauad Meaning: Beloved One David, House of (the linage of David) 1035 BC: 970 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: đ¤đ¤đ¤đ¤đ¤ đ¤ Pronunciation: Bayawt Dauad Egypt, Nation of: Nation 3150 BC: 30 BC
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.
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
Gibeah, Biblical city mentioned by Isaiah, as quoted by Nephi 1. [22] Hometown and capital of King Saul, located just north of Jerusalem. Gebim (/ Ë ÉĄ iË b ÉŞ m /), [23] location near Jerusalem mentioned by Isaiah, as quoted by Nephi 1. [24] The name means means "cisterns" or "pits" in Hebrew, suggesting that it was known for water sources ...
According to the Bible, Saul's army consisted entirely of infantry, about 3,000 soldiers and militia men. According to Josephus and 1 Samuel 13:2, Saul himself initially retained 2,000 of these as his guard in Bethel while providing Jonathan with 1,000 which he used to take back Gibeah from Philistine rule. [2]
Persian, Moroccan, Greek, Turkish, Balkan and Jerusalem Sephardim usually pronounce it as [v], which is reflected in Modern Hebrew. Spanish and Portuguese Jews traditionally [1] pronounced it as [b ~ β] (as do most Mizrahi Jews), but that is declining under the influence of Israeli Hebrew. That may reflect changes in the pronunciation of Spanish.
Vestiges of this earlier pronunciation are still found throughout the Yiddish-speaking world in names like Yankev (×עק×Öż) and words like manse (×ע׊××, more commonly pronounced mayse), but are otherwise marginal. ת ungeminated ᚯÄw is pronounced in Ashkenazi Hebrew. It is always pronounced in Modern and Sephardi Hebrew.