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    references to Jabal Musa exist in the Quran, where it is called Ṭūr Saināʾ, Ṭūr Sīnīn, and aṭ-Ṭūr and al-Jabal (both meaning "the Mount"). As for the adjacent...
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    El Tor, Egypt (redirect from Tur Sinai)
    (Arabic: الطور aṭ-Ṭūr/et-Ṭūr  Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [etˈtˤuːɾ]), also romanized as Al-Tur and At-Tur and known as Tur Sinai, formerly Raithu...
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  • At-Tur (Arabic: الطور, aṭ-ṭūr; meaning: The Mount) is the 52nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 49 verses (ayat). The surah opens with the oath of Allah...
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  • Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (Hebrew: נפתלי הרץ טור-סיני; born 13 November 1886 – 17 October 1973) was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in...
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    is designated as "Jabal Aṭ-Ṭūr (Arabic: جبل الطّور)",[dubious – discuss] and the town is also the capital of the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt. As...
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    references to the mount exist in the Quran, where it is called Ṭūr Sīnā’, Ṭūr Sīnīn, and aṭ-Ṭūr and al-Jabal (both meaning "the Mount"). As for the adjacent...
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    President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, Professor Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai. Tur-Sinai completed the dictionary in 1959. In the end, Ben-Yehuda's dictionary...
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    1938 by Professor Harry Torczyner (name later changed to Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai) and have been much studied since then. Seventeen of them are currently...
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    and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between...
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    At-Tur (Arabic: الطور, Hebrew: א-טור; lit. "The Mount" in Arabic) is an Arab-majority neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the...
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  • Israeli scholars in the field of Hebrew linguistics include Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Chaim Menachem Rabin, E. Y. Kutscher, Shelomo Morag, Joshua Blau, Ze'ev...
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  • related to them. Sullupi سل , سلب سلسلب of Fulani clan emigrated from Tur Sinai طور سيناء the coted name for Futa Toro فوتا تورو ,which some Fulani tribe...
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    South Sinai Governorate (Arabic: محافظة جنوب سيناء Muḥāfaẓah Ganūb Sīnāʾ) is the least populated governorate of Egypt. It is located in the east of the...
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  • (1945–2003), Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1886–1973), Bible scholar, author and linguist instrumental in the revival...
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  • with the surname include: Harry Torczyner, birth name of Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1886-1973), Bible scholar and Hebrew language linguist Jacques Torczyner...
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    sound (homophone). In some cases, a false cognate could satisfy both options at once. Others chose completely newly chosen names, many times symbolic in nature...
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    und Phonologie, Nominalmorphologie, Ugarit-Verlag, 2000 Torczyner, H. Tur-Sinai, "The Amorite and the Amurrû of the Inscriptions", The Jewish Quarterly...
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    (1887–1959)  Soviet Union ( Belarus)  United States poetry, essays Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1886–1973) Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) 23 Stijn Streuvels (1871–1969)...
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  • 2004, commentary to Deuteronomy 29:19 and elsewhere Gruber, Mayer I., "Tur-Sinai's Job in the Jewish Liturgy", Review of Rabbinic Judaism, vol. 6, nr. 1...
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  • Reuben Alcalay (category Burials at Har HaMenuchot)
    Dictionary), Judah Even Shemuel (Kaufmann), Meir Medan, Harry Torczyner (Tur-Sinai), and Jacob Knaani. His Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary (1961, 2,150...
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    Zagrodski 1940 Zelda Mishkovsky Shaul Tchernichovsky (also 1942) Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai 1941 Shalom Yosef Shapira Joseph Klausner (also 1949) 1942 Haim Hazaz...
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    Edmond Fleg,Gershon Sholem, Martin Buber, Julius Guttmann, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hanoch Albeck, Joachim Prinz, Siegfried Silberstein for courses on Hebrew...
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    Letters of the Time of Jeremiah (in Hebrew). Translated by Naphtali H. Tur-Sinai. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute; The Israel Exploration Society. ISBN 965-342-509-9...
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    lines in the Sinai Peninsula on Israel's border (16 May), expelled the UNEF force from Gaza and Sinai (19 May) and took over UNEF positions at Sharm el-Sheikh...
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  • April 2015. Claire Epstein, Jewish Women Encyclopedia "Nissan Nativ dead at 86: Prominent Israeli theater persona found dead in Tel Aviv apartment, just...
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    describe the burning bush. The use of seneh may be a deliberate pun on Sinai (סיני), a feature common in Hebrew texts. In the narrative, an angel of...
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  • the format of the future work. Among those scholars were Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Moshe Zvi Segal, Moshe David Cassuto, Shmuel Yeivin...
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  • Israel and World Jewry. He was the nephew of Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai. His papers are archived at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Torczyner...
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    link up with their comrades at At-Tur. They then moved southeastward to Sharm El Sheikh at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula—which they conquered...
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    East Jacob Talmon, Modern History Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew Language Efraim Urbach, Talmud Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Pathologic...
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