Tetragrammaton
Four-letter Hebrew theonym , the name of God in Judaism and Christianity.
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Samaritans
Ethnoreligious group who originate from the ancient Israelites.
Ethnoreligious group who originate from the ancient Israelites.
There is one God, YHWH or in Samaritan language "Shehmaa", the same God recognized by the Hebrew prophets.
Shasu
The Shasu (from Egyptian šꜣsw, probably pronounced Shaswe ) were Semitic-speaking cattle nomads in the Southern Levant from the late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age or the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.
The Shasu (from Egyptian šꜣsw, probably pronounced Shaswe ) were Semitic-speaking cattle nomads in the Southern Levant from the late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age or the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.
Some scholars link the Israelites and YHWH with the Shasu.
Ineffability
Concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words , often being in the form of a taboo or incomprehensible term.
Concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words , often being in the form of a taboo or incomprehensible term.
An example is the name of God in Judaism, written as YHWH but substituted with Adonai ("the Lord") or HaShem ("the name") when reading.
Simeon the Just
Jewish High Priest during the Second Temple period.
Jewish High Priest during the Second Temple period.
After Simeon's death men ceased to utter the Tetragrammaton aloud.
Shem HaMephorash
Shem HaM'phorash (Hebrew: שם המפורש, also Shem ha-Mephorash), meaning "the explicit name," is originally a Tannaitic term describing the Tetragrammaton.
Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever
Greek manuscript of a revision of the Septuagint dated to the 1st century CE.
Greek manuscript of a revision of the Septuagint dated to the 1st century CE.
Clearly Jewish manuscripts of Greek translations of the Old Testament (Septuagint, Proto-Masoretic, kaige, the translations of Aquila of Sinope, Symmachus the Ebionite, Theodotion and the Hexapla) differ from clearly Christian manuscripts in not using Kύριος or the nomina sacra and (with a horizontal line above the contracted words) to represent the Tetragrammaton.
Atziluth
Highest of four worlds in which exists the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
Highest of four worlds in which exists the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
The letter yud י in the Tetragrammaton
Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy (י״ג מִידּוֹת) or Shelosh-'Esreh Middot HaRakhamim (transliterated from the Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה מִידּוֹת הַרַחֲמִים) as enumerated in the Book of Exodus are the Divine Attributes with which, according to Judaism, God governs the world.
The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy (י״ג מִידּוֹת) or Shelosh-'Esreh Middot HaRakhamim (transliterated from the Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה מִידּוֹת הַרַחֲמִים) as enumerated in the Book of Exodus are the Divine Attributes with which, according to Judaism, God governs the world.
1) יְהוָה YHVH: compassion before a person sins;
Beri'ah
Second of the four celestial worlds in the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah, intermediate between the World of Emanation (Atziluth) and the World of Formation (Yetzirah), the third world, that of the angels.
Second of the four celestial worlds in the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah, intermediate between the World of Emanation (Atziluth) and the World of Formation (Yetzirah), the third world, that of the angels.
The first of the two letter hei's ה in the Tetragrammaton
Assiah
Last of the four spiritual worlds of the Kabbalah —Atziluth, Beriah, Yetzirah, 'Asiyah— based on the passage in.
Last of the four spiritual worlds of the Kabbalah —Atziluth, Beriah, Yetzirah, 'Asiyah— based on the passage in.
The final letter hei ה in the Tetragrammaton