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Almah ( עַלְמָה ‘almā, plural: עֲלָמוֹת ‘ălāmōṯ ), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage. [ 1] Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Marvin Alan Sweeney states that scholars agree that it refers ...
e. Hebrew Bible English translations are English translations of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to the Masoretic Text, [ 1] in the traditional division and order of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim. Most Jewish translations appear in bilingual editions (Hebrew–English). Jewish translations often reflect traditional Jewish exegesis of the ...
The Living Torah[ 3] is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. It was and remains a highly popular translation, [ 4] and was reissued in a Hebrew-English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations: Make it clear and ...
v. t. e. The Torah ( / ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə /; 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] The Torah is known as the Pentateuch ( / ˈpɛntətjuːk /) or the Five Books of ...
An aliyah (or aliyah, Hebrew Hebrew: עליה; pl. עליות, aliyot; "ascent" or "going up") is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading. A person receiving an aliyah is called an oleh (male) or olah (female). The person who receives the aliyah goes up to the bimah before the ...
Bible translations into Yiddish. A Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary by Elijah Levita, 1544. In the early part of the sixteenth century, there were already attempts to translate the Bible into Yiddish, including Hebrew - Yiddish biblical dictionaries. [1] One of the most authoritative was the Bible that Jekuthiel Blitz translated in 1678.
The Bible is not always what it seems to those who read it in the great prose of the English version or indeed, in any of the conventional versions. What it is may be partly suggested by a new rendering, such as the following pages present, that is, a fresh translation [1] of the original, not a revision of any English version."
t. e. Bible translations into Hebrew primarily refers to translations of the New Testament of the Christian Bible into the Hebrew language, from the original Koine Greek or an intermediate translation. There is less need to translate the Jewish Tanakh (or Christian Old Testament) from the Original Biblical Hebrew, because it is closely ...