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  2. Chutzpah - Wikipedia

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    The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film ...

  3. Rahab (term) - Wikipedia

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    Rahab (Biblical Hebrew: רַהַב, romanized: Rahaḇ, lit. 'blusterer') is used in the Hebrew Bible to indicate pride or arrogance, a mystical sea monster, as an emblematic or poetic name for Egypt, [1] and for the sea. [2] Raḥab or Rachav (Hebrew: רָחָב‎, romanized: raḥaḇ, lit. 'spacious place') is a term for the Abyss.

  4. File:Tikkun Middot Hanefesh (Hebrew).pdf - Wikipedia

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    21:41, 10 February 2007: 554 × 879, 43 pages (1.39 MB) Dovi: PDF image of a public domain book, for use at Wikipedia and Wikisource: Solomon Ibn Gabirol, The Improvement of the Moral Qualities (''Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh''). Medieval Hebrew translation by Rabbi Judah Ibn Tibbon in 1167. This edition was published

  5. List of Hebrew dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Cover of Steinberg O.N. Jewish and Chaldean etymological dictionary to Old Testament books 1878. Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch über die Schriften des Alten Testaments mit Einschluß der geographischen Nahmen und der chaldäischen Wörter beym Daniel und Esra (Hebrew-German Hand Dictionary on the Old Testament Scriptures including Geographical Names and Chaldean Words, with Daniel and ...

  6. Torah database - Wikipedia

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    A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is a collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which, especially in Israel, are often called "The Traditional Jewish Bookshelf" (ארון הספרים היהודי); the texts are in their original languages (Hebrew or Aramaic).

  7. Mikraot Gedolot - Wikipedia

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    Vayikra – The Book of Leviticus, Warsaw edition,1860, title page Book of Leviticus, Warsaw edition, 1860, Page 1. A Mikraot Gedolot (Hebrew: מקראות גדולות, lit. 'Great Scriptures'), often called a "Rabbinic Bible" in English, [1] is an edition of the Hebrew Bible that generally includes three distinct elements:

  8. Textual variants in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...

  9. ISO 259 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 259-3 is Uzzi Ornan's romanization, which reached the stage of an ISO Final Draft [3] but not of a published International Standard (IS). [4] It is designed to deliver the common structure of the Hebrew word throughout the different dialects or pronunciation styles of Hebrew, in a way that it can be reconstructed into the original Hebrew characters by both man and machine.