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  2. Jewish views on sin - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible uses several words to describe sin. The standard noun for sin is ḥeṭ (verb: hata), meaning to "miss the mark" or "sin". [4] The word avon is often translated as "iniquity", i.e. a sin done out of moral failing. [5] The word pesha, or "trespass", means a sin done out of rebelliousness. [6]

  3. Tannin (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The word Tannin is used in the Hebrew Bible fourteen times. Aaron's staff becomes Tannin in the Book of Exodus (Exodus 7:9-12), it is used in the meaning "snake" in the Book of Deuteronomy (Deut 32:33) and Psalms (Psalm 91:13). It represents Nebuchadnezzar II (the king of Babylon) in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 51:34) and Pharaoh in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 29: ...

  4. Sin offering - Wikipedia

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    The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual ...

  5. Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words. [ 3 ] The project was started in the 1980s [ 4 ] and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio .

  6. Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh [a] (/ t ɑː ˈ n ɑː x /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ ‎ tanaḵ, תָּנָ״ךְ ‎ tānāḵ or תְּנַ״ךְ ‎ tənaḵ) also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ m iː ˈ k r ɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא ‎ miqrāʾ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

  7. Abomination (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    The translation of the Hebrew word for abomination is actually the translation of three different levels or kinds of abominations in terms of severity: toebah, sheḳeẓ, and piggul. [1] While abomination refers mostly to violations of the Mosaic law , specifically violations of the mitzvot on the worship of God in Judaism , it also includes ...

  8. Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    The forms of divination mentioned in Deuteronomy 17 are portrayed as being of foreign origin; this is the only part of the Hebrew Bible to make such a claim. [5] According to Ann Jeffers, the presence of laws forbidding necromancy proves that it was practiced throughout Israel's history.

  9. Strong's Concordance - Wikipedia

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    The 5,624 Greek root words used in the New Testament. (Example: Although the Greek words in Strong's Concordance are numbered 1–5624, the numbers 2717 and 3203–3302 are unassigned due to "changes in the enumeration while in progress". Not every distinct word is assigned a number, but rather only the root words.