Biblical Hebrew facts
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It has been argued that the "rib" (צְלָעֹת ṣela‘, also translated "flank" or "side") in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals but that is absent in the human penis.
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It has been argued that the "rib" in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum (A penis bone)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in caves in the Judaean Desert from 1945-1956 in 11 caves contain 981 different manuscripts having great historical & religious significance as they include the 2nd oldest manuscripts included in the Hebrew Bible along with extra-biblical manuscripts.
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The 6th Commandment in biblical Hebrew is literally translated as "thou shalt not murder" (Ratzah), not "thou shalt not kill" (Harag) and there are numerous instances where killing in the context of warfare, capital punishment and self defense are considered moral imperatives.
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There is no 'j' in Hebrew or Latin. All Biblical nouns starting with 'j' in English (Joseph, Jacob, Judah, Jerusalem, Jeremiah, etc.) were first written that way at a time when 'j' was pronounced like today's 'y'. So the correct pronunciation is Yoseph, Yacob, etc.
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The name Naomi is of biblical Hebrew origin, and is unrelated to the Japanese name of the same spelling.
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A team of 15 biblical scholars worked from the oldest copies of reliable texts, variously written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greeks to create the The New International Version Bible. First published in 1978, it ensured a high quality translation in modern English
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The biblical Hebrew term for the planet Venus is "heilel ben shakhar". It comes from the ancient Canaanite myth of the Heilel, son of the dawn God, who rebelled against the chief god Elion and was expelled from heaven as punishment. It eventually became the Christian tale of Lucifer.
