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Of Greek and Hebrew, Hebrew strikes the most fear in the heart of the Bible student. The alphabet does not look anything like English. The vocabulary offers almost no points of contact with English. The verb system is utterly alien. And the lexicons, grammars, and textbooks are wrapped up in a metalanguage—spiked with Latin—that is daunting in itself. For those who feel that studying the English...

. n. The Ithpaal conjugation of geminate verbs in BA. See also Hithpoel. . עטורי ספרים, “scribal omissions.”—n. The purposeful leaving out of certain elements in the Hebrew Bible by ancient Jewish textual scholars. J. Abbreviation for the German Jahwist (Eng. Yahwist). See also JEDP . n. The proposed author of the J (Jahwistic) traditions of the Pentateuch. See also JEDP theory. . adj. Pertaining to the author or source designated Jahwist in the *JEDP theory
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