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    Herem (war or property) (category Judaism and warfare)
    27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". There is also a homonym, herem, meaning fisherman's net, which occurs 9 times in the masoretic...
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  • romanized: tiqqūn ʻōlām / tikún olám, lit. 'repairing of the world') is a concept in Judaism, which refers to various forms of action intended to repair and improve...
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    The Guide for the Perplexed (category Censorship in Judaism)
    are explained by him as perfect homonyms, denoting two or more absolutely distinct things; others, as imperfect homonyms, employed in some instances figuratively...
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    Moses (section Judaism)
    the Exodus from Egypt. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and Samaritanism, and one of the most important prophets in Christianity...
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    Lord", which forces one to interpret הוחל huchal not as "began" but as the homonym "profanated". In this light, Enosh suggests the notion of a humanity (Enoshut)...
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    Elohim (category Angels in Judaism)
    that Elohim "Divinity" and elohim "gods" are commonly understood to be homonyms. One modern theory suggests that the notion of divinity underwent radical...
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    Hebrew noun. This noun comes from the semitic root Ḥ-R-M. There is also a homonym herem "fisherman's net", which appears nine times in the Masoretic Text...
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    languages may either be distinguished from such attributes, or homonymic. For example, in Judaism the tetragrammaton is sometimes related to the ancient Hebrew...
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  • while the Kabbalists favour ʾor because its numerical value equals ר״ז, a homonym for רז rāz "mystery". ʾOr is one of the two main Kabbalistic metaphors...
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  • Empire, and also as a language of divine worship and religious study within Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. Several modern varieties of Aramaic are...
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    1776), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement. He was...
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    [maksɨˌmʲilʲan ˌmarʲja ˈkɔlbɛ]. After the friars learned that mugenzai was a homonym for "endless sin," the monastery's name was later changed to Seibo no Kishi...
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    signifies or implies the person's father to be distinguished from his homonyms. Opinion is divided on whether Jude the apostle was also Jude, brother...
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    places where the original Hebrew is marked either by a Hebrew idiom, a homonym, or a metaphor, and could not be readily understood otherwise. The translator...
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    used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used exclusively...
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  • Seder HaDoroth (category History books about Judaism)
    which has been published is Erke HaKinnuyim, a dictionary of synonyms and homonyms occurring in the Bible, Talmud, and other works, chiefly Kabalistic (Dyhernfurth...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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    papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Biographical summary (Homonym scientist in French) Édouard Dujardin Papers and the Édouard Dujardin Photograph...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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  • religious lines, and encompassing groups that adhere to Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism and Islam. Christian Neo-Aramaic languages have long co-existed...
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    Retrieved 20 January 2022. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    derived from Kala, which is mentioned quite differently in Sanskrit. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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  • didn't practice the Osu caste system (not to be misconstrued for the "osu" homonym associated with greatness in the igbo lexicon) despite its legality and...
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    2023. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    same as puns, which play on the varied means of a word or phrase or the homonyms thereof. "How many of these great female thinkers have you heard of?"....
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    Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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    Samuel ibn Tibbon (category Philosophers of Judaism)
    verbs and adjectives derived from substantives by analogy with the Arabic; Homonyms, used with special meanings; and Words to which new meanings were given...
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    in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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  • which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel...
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  • Herem (priestly gift) (category Priesthood (Judaism))
    term is used 29 times in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh. An unrelated homonym, the noun herem meaning "fisherman's net" (also חֵרֶם), is used a further...
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