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Bible. The Masoretic Text [a] ( MT or 𝕸; Hebrew: נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized : Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with ...
Colon and sof pasuq. Stemming from Biblical Hebrew, a sof pasuq ׃ is the equivalent of a period, and is used in some writings such as prayer books. Since a sof pasuq is absent from the Hebrew keyboard layout, and looks very similar to the colon : , a colon is often substituted for it. Glyph. Unicode.
A Mikraot Gedolot ( Hebrew: מקראות גדולות, lit. 'Great Scriptures'), often called a " Rabbinic Bible" in English, [1] is an edition of the Hebrew Bible that generally includes three distinct elements: The Masoretic Text in its letters, niqqud (vocalisation marks), and cantillation marks. A Targum or Aramaic translation.
Biblical gloss. In Biblical studies, a gloss or glossa is an annotation written on margins or within the text of biblical manuscripts or printed editions of the scriptures. With regard to the Hebrew texts, the glosses chiefly contained explanations of purely verbal difficulties of the text; some of these glosses are of importance for the ...
Judaism. A yad ( Hebrew: יד; Yiddish: האַנט, romanized : hant, lit. 'hand') is a Jewish ritual pointer, or stylus, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is often shaped like a long rod, capped by a small hand with its index finger pointing ...
History Paleo-Hebrew alphabet containing 22 letters, period, geresh, and gershayim The Aleppo Codex, a tenth century Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. Book of Joshua 1:1 Main article: History of the Hebrew alphabet The Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before around 1000 BCE. An example of related early Semitic inscriptions from the area include the tenth-century Gezer ...
History of the alphabet. The Paleo-Hebrew script ( Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום ), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in inscriptions of Canaanite languages (incl. pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew) from the region of Southern Canaan, also known as biblical Israel and Judah.
Chokhmah (Hebrew: חָכְמָה) is the Biblical Hebrew word rendered as "wisdom" in English Bible versions (LXX σοφία sophia, Vulgate sapientia). The word occurs 149 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. It is cognate with the Arabic word for "wisdom", ḥikma حكمة (Semitic root ḥ-k-m).