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This limitation of the gezerah shavah, however, to superfluous words is not generally recognized. Akiva considers the gezerah shavah valid when neither of the two words is superfluous (אינו מופנה כלל). According to Rabbi Ishmael, it is sufficient if the analogy is free on one side (מופנה מצד אחד), i.e., if one of the two ...
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 ...
The Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary covered, primarily, the most frequently used words in Arabic newspapers published in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, according to statistical analysis. [1] The authors found that about 3,000 Arabic words accounted for 94.8% of all words counted in Arabic daily newspapers. [1]
In some Semitic languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic), paleographers often describe the addition of a plene consonantal letter, such as vav and yud (used in place of the vowels 'o', 'u', 'i', and 'ei'), as employing matres lectionis in its reading, although not all plene letters used in Hebrew words are indeed a mater lectionis. [5]
The Hebrew dictionary by Avraham Even-Shoshan, commonly known as the Even-Shoshan Dictionary, was first published (1948–1952) as "מִלּוֹן חָדָשׁ (milon ḥadash, A New Dictionary), later (1966–1970) as הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ (hamilon heḥadash, The New Dictionary), and finally (2003, well after his death) as מִלּוֹן אֶבֶן־שׁוֹשָׁן ...
He studied at the College for Hebrew Teachers (now the David Yellin College of Education) [2] in Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [3] He worked as a teacher in Jerusalem until 1967. In 1946–58, Even-Shoshan compiled HaMilon HeHadash ( The New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language), which since 2003 has become known as the Even ...
In 1938, the "Association for Completing Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's Hebrew Language Dictionary" was established to raise funds to finance the publication of the missing volumes. The seven following volumes and the introduction volume were edited by the President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, Professor Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai. Tur-Sinai ...
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects. [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 ...