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The cardinal number precedes the noun (e.g., shlosha yeladim), except for the number one which succeeds it (e.g., yeled echad). The number two is special: shnayim (m.) and shtayim (f.) become shney (m.) and shtey (f.) when followed by the noun they count. For ordinal numbers (numbers indicating position) greater than ten the cardinal is used.
In gematria, Yod represents the number ten. As a prefix, it designates the third person singular (or plural, with a Vav as a suffix) in the future tense. As a suffix, it indicates first person singular possessive; av (father) becomes avi (my father). "Yod" in Hebrew signifies iodine. Iodine is also called يود yod in Arabic.
In Judaism, a minyan (Hebrew: מניין \ מִנְיָן mīnyān, lit. (noun) count, number; pl. מניינים \ מִנְיָנִים mīnyānīm) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations.
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת ... in order to fulfill the number 10, since the third commandment (Exodus 20:4-5) is missing. ...
In early biblical texts, numbers were written out in full using Hebrew number words. ... It assigns the values 1–9, 10–90, 100–400 to the 22 Hebrew letters in ...
Sefirot (/ s f ɪ ˈ r oʊ t, ˈ s f ɪr oʊ t /; Hebrew: סְפִירוֹת, romanized: səp̄īrōṯ, plural of Koinē Greek: σφαῖρα, lit. 'sphere' [1]), [2] meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, [3] through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the seder hishtalshelut (the chained descent of ...
The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, lit. ' numbers ' Biblical Hebrew: בְּמִדְבַּר, Bəmīḏbar, lit. ' In [the] desert '; Latin: Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. [1]
The Babylonian Talmud records in the tractate Shabbath, folio 116a, that the markings surrounding Numbers 10:35–36 were thought to denote that this 85-letter text was not in its proper place. One opinion states that it would appear in another location which discusses the order of tribal column, with the position of the Ark already stated there.