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Johanan (name) Yohanan יוֹחָנָן ( Yôḥānān ), sometimes transcribed as Johanan is Hebrew male given name that can also appear in the longer form of יְהוֹחָנָן ( Yəhôḥānān ), meaning " YHWH is gracious ". The name is ancient, recorded as the name of Johanan, high priest of the Second Temple around 400 BCE.
Yohanan ben Zakkai [a] ( Hebrew: יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי, romanized : Yoḥānān ben Zakkay; 1st century CE ), sometimes abbreviated as ריב״ז ribaz for R abbi Y ohanan b en Z akkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruction era.
Rishonim. Acharonim. v. t. e. See Johanan (name) for more rabbis by this name. Johanan bar Nappaha ( Hebrew: יוחנן בר נפחא Yoḥanan bar Nafḥa; alt. sp. Napaḥa) (also known simply as Rabbi Yochanan, or as Johanan bar Nafcha) (lived 180-279 CE) [1] was a leading rabbi in the early era of the Talmud. He belonged to the second ...
Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan (/ ˈ b ɛ n ˈ j oʊ k ən ən /; December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), referred to as "Dr. Ben", was an American writer and historian.He was considered to be one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars by some Black Nationalists, while most mainstream scholars, such as Mary Lefkowitz, dismissed him because of the basic historical inaccuracies in his ...
e. Johanan ben Torta ( Hebrew: יוחנן בן תורתא, read as Yochanan ben Torta) was a rabbi of the early 2nd century (third generation of tannaim ). He was one of the main opponents of the Bar Kokhba revolt : Shimon bar Yochai recounts: Rabbi Akiva would elucidate, "A star has came forth out of Jacob" [1] [as] ' [Bar] Kozba ' [2] has ...
Joanna ( Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized: Iōanna, also Greek: Ἰωάνα ), the wife of Chuza ( γυνὴ Χουζᾶ ), [2] is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve ...
Ramat Yohanan. / 32.79278°N 35.12139°E / 32.79278; 35.12139. Ramat Yohanan ( Hebrew: רָמַת יוֹחָנָן, lit. 'Yohanan Heights') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Kiryat Ata and adjacent to the kibbutzim of Kfar HaMaccabi and Usha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Zevulun Regional Council. In 2022 it had a ...
Imperial / US units. 2.7 mi. A yojana ( Devanagari: योजन; Khmer language: យោជន៍; [1] Thai: โยชน์; Burmese: ယူဇနာ) is a measure of distance that was used in ancient India, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. Various textual sources from ancient India defines Yojana as ranging from 3.5 to 15 km. [2] [3]