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Letters in black, niqqud (vowel points) and d'geshim (gemination marks) in red, cantillation in blue. Bare transliteration: wy‘mr ‘lhym yqww hmym. With accents: way-yōmer ĕlōhīm yiqqāwū ham-mayim. Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services.
Biblical poetry. The ancient Hebrews identified poetical portions in their sacred texts, as shown by their entitling as "psalms" or as "chants" passages such as Exodus 15:1-19 and Numbers 21:17-20; a song or chant (shir) is, according to the primary meaning of the term, poetry. The question as to whether the poetical passages of the Old ...
The Book of Psalms (/ s ɑː (l) m z / SAH(L)MZ, US also / s ɔː (l) m z / SAW(L)MZ; [2] Biblical Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים , romanized: Tehillīm, lit. 'praises'; Ancient Greek: Ψαλμός, romanized: Psalmós; Latin: Liber Psalmorum; Arabic: زَبُورُ, romanized: Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew ...
The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel "; [1] a "sojourner in the land", [2] and in the Greek New Testament [3] for a first-century convert to Judaism, generally from Ancient Greek ...
Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא (Leshon ha-Miqra) ⓘ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the ...
e. The Torah (/ ˈtɔːrə /; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [1] In Christianity, the Torah is known as the Pentateuch (/ ˈpɛntətjuːk /) or the Five Books of Moses.
v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Weekly Torah portion. A Torah scroll and silver pointer (yad) used in reading. It is a custom among religious Jewish communities for a weekly Torah portion to be read during Jewish prayer services on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The full name, Parashat HaShavua (Hebrew: פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ), is popularly abbreviated to ...