niddah

niddahs (plural)
nida (alternative)
nidah (alternative)
nidda (alternative)

I assume you, Josh, are perfect. My description of our ideals on that point match; I publically^([sic]) admitted a personal flaw in my not actually being emotionally in tune with my ideal. I assume you do not worry about the current economy, having perfect bitachon, are never beset with hunger on Yom Kippur, or sexual desire when your wife is a niddah, or otherwise ever have your emotions at odds with your ideals.

2009 April 27, Micha Berger, “Avigdor Lieberman, our realistic new Foreign Minister (Naomi Ragen)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Someone whom Halacha considers menstruant.


zeved habat

(Judaism) A ceremony in which girls are named.


pidyon haBen

en-noun

pidyon haBen (usually uncountable, plural pidyon haBens)

pidyon haBens (plural)
pidyon haben (alternative)
Pidyon Haben (alternative)

The Pidyon Haben applies to the firstborn of the mother only; thus, if one has four or five sons born to him by four or five virgin wives, he is bound to redeem them all.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 287:

(Judaism) A ceremony in which a firstborn son is redeemed by a kohen, in order to release him from his obligation from serving in the Temple.


pidyon haben

pidyon haben (usually uncountable, plural pidyon habens)

pidyon habens (plural)
Pidyon HaBen (alternative)
Pidyon Haben (alternative)

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of pidyon haBen


Pidyon Haben

Pidyon Haben (usually uncountable, plural Pidyon Habens)

Pidyon Habens (plural)
Pidyon HaBen (alternative)
pidyon haben (alternative)


mashgiah

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of mashgiach


mashgiach

mashgiach (plural mashgiachs or mashgichim)

bor

Hebrew מַשְׁגִּיחַ

Kashruth fraud in Brooklyn. Seems a goon squad of fake mashgichim or kosher supervisors have been making their way around the neighborhoods pulling surprise ‘inspections’ on different shops and restaurants, selling them fancy-looking certificates to put in the window […]

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 24:

(Judaism) Somebody who supervises the kashrut status of food in a restaurant.


eruv

eruvs (plural)
eruvim (plural)
eruvin (plural)
erub (alternative)
eiruv (alternative)

From Hebrew עירוב / עֵרוּב (eirúv, “mixture”).

Sam is sad that people don't visit him at home on Shabbos because he lives outside the eruv.

“We live in a day and age,” he continued, “where if you don’t have an eruv, you’re taking yourself off of many people’s lists.”

2007 August 12, Jake Mooney, “A Slender Thread to Knit a Neighborhood”, in New York Times:

‘Fat’ is the word you hear shouted in the playground, or on the street – it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home, together, we are safe. It's like an eruv for the slow and soft.

(Jewish law, most commonly) An eruv chatzerot; ritual aggregation of properties that allows Jews observing traditional Shabbat rules to carry burdens across property lines.

érouv

eruv chatzerot, ritual aggregation of domains

(Jewish law) One of the other types of eruv; an eruv tavshilin or eruv techumin.


retem

Ultimately from a Semitic language. Compare Arabic رَتَم (ratam), Biblical Hebrew רותם

raetam (alternative)
rethem (alternative)

A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.


pareve

/ˈpɑː.ɹə.və/

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַרעוו, פּאַרעווע (parev, pareve), of uncertain origin. Suggestions include:
* Perhaps from Middle High German bar (“bare, naked”), from Old High German bar, and thus cognate with English bare.
* Perhaps from a West Slavic source such as Czech párový (“occurring in pairs”), because according to Jewish dietary laws, meat and milk cannot be combined, but as pareve food contains neither, it can be paired with either meat dishes or milk dishes.

פּאַרעוו, פּאַרעווע

My mom made a pareve casserole with soy hot dogs.

"Parev ice" includes Kosher ice and means the substance intended for sale for human consumption which resembles ice-cream and which— / (a) is usually known as Parev ice or Kosher ice, and / (b) contains no milk or milk derivatives, […]

1970, Statutory Instruments, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 4249:

There are on the market many items which resemble such dairy products as coffee cream, sour cream and whipped cream both in taste and appearance but actually are pareve. These are customarily served in the original container to show that the product is pareve despite the dairy appearance.

1990, Bonne Rae London, “Introduction to Kashruth: Why Keep Kosher?”, in Hi-tech Jewish Cooking: Recipes for the Microwave, Processor, Blender and Crock Pot, New York, N.Y.: Shapolsky Publishers, →ISBN, page 4:

A food product containing neither meat nor milk, or derived from either is neutral. The Yiddish word parev (parve) or the Hebrew word stam is used to describe this third category. The neutral (parev) category includes (1) everything which grows from the soil: vegetables, fruits, nuts, coffee, spices, sugar, salt, (2) all kosher fish, (3) eggs, and (4) items manufactured from chemicals. Parev foods may be eaten or cooked with either dairy or meat products.

1991, Hayim Halevy Donin, “The Dietary Laws: A Diet for the Soul”, in To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life: Selected and Compiled from the Shulhan Arukh and Responsa Literature, and Providing a Rationale for the Laws and the Traditions, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 113:

After eating parve food cooked in a meat pot or cut with a meat knife, does one need to wait six hours to eat dairy? Parve food that was cooked in a meat pot [but without any meat in the pot, such as fish cooked in a meat pot] does not require a wait of six hours before dairy may be eaten. […] [Note that our discussion here applies only to dairy food eaten after parve food, not together with it.]

2002 July, Doniel Yehuda Neustadt, דיוני הלכה [Diyune Halakhah]: The Weekly Halachah Discussion: A Review of Practical Halachic Topics Related to the Parashah of the Week, 2nd rev. edition, Jerusalem, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, →ISBN, page 205:

From the marketing perspective, most manufacturers would prefer that products not inherently dairy (such as cheese snacks) enjoy a Pareve status. In many situations, however, considerations other than the status of ingredients may make it necessary to confer a Dairy (or Dairy Equipment) status to otherwise potentially Pareve products. Examples of such situations may include: / The equipment used to cook or heat the inherently Pareve items is also used to process dairy products. In such situations, the equipment may require a Kosherization from dairy to Pareve productions, a process which may prove impractical.

2009, Zushe Yosef Blech, Kosher Food Production, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 201:

In true kosher cooking, meat and dairy should never be combined. Pareve margarine is made up of 100 percent vegetable oil. Dairy margarine has milk as one of the ingredients plus perhaps added vegetable oil. This is why when cooking a meat or dairy meal, if the recipe requires butter or margarine, I substitute it with pareve margarine.

2011, Avrom Honig, “Bubbe” [pseudonym], “Quick Notes on Keeping Kosher”, in Feed Me Bubbe: Recipes and Wisdom from America's Favorite Online Grandmother, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press, →ISBN:

(Jewish law) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.


yad

(Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.


Jewishly

en-adv

Jewishly (comparative more Jewishly, superlative most Jewishly)

more Jewishly (comparative)
most Jewishly (superlative)


shiur

bor

Hebrew שִׁעוּר (šiʿū́r)

Rabbi Bleich’s theological discourse on the topic, known as a shiur, has been viewed more than 4,000 times and downloaded nearly 1,000 from the Yeshiva University Web site “Torah Online .”

2009 April 4, Samuel G. Freedman, “A Jewish Holiday, Once Every 28 Years”, in New York Times:

dars

a lesson on a topic in the Qurʾān or Sunna


Abdias

From Latin Abdias, from Ancient Greek Ὀβδίας (Obdías), from Hebrew עוֹבַדְיָה (ʿovadyah).

Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas, […]


Elul

From Hebrew אֱלוּל (elúl), from Akkadian 𒌗𒆥 (ⁱᵗⁱeluli, “month of harvest”).

der

“Twenty-three years ago,” the rebbe says without hesitation. “On the twentieth of Elul. No one in this house has spoken to or seen him since then.”

2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 142:

(Judaism) The twelfth month of the civil year and the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Av and before Tishrei.

أيلول

twelfth month in civil year in the Jewish calendar


pilpul

(Judaism) Penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, especially in Talmudic study.


maggid

maggids (plural)
maggidim (plural)
magid (alternative)

bor

Hebrew מַגִּיד

(Judaism) A teacher of the Torah in Eastern Europe.


magid

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of maggid


beth din

From Hebrew בֵּית דִּין (bêṯ dîn, “court of law”), from בֵּית (bêṯ, “house of”) + דין (dîn, “judgment”).

bet din (alternative)
Bet Din (alternative)
beis din (alternative)
Beis Din (alternative)
beit din (alternative)
Beit Din (alternative)
Beth Din (alternative)

Another reason for augmenting Tahanun on Mondays and Thursdays is that in ancient Israel the Bet Din ("court sessions") were held on those days that were days of judgment on high.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 350:

(Judaism) A rabbinical court which regulates certain parts of Jewish law.


Tamar

From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).


Marranic

(Judaism) Of, or pertaining to, the Marranos or to Marranism.


Marranism

(historical, Judaism) The secret practice of Judaism by the Marranos.


Marranist

(historical, Judaism) A practiser of Marranism; Marrano.


Apollos

Inherited from Middle English, derived from Latin; from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλῶς (Apollôs), probably an abbreviated form of Ἀπολλώνιος (Apollṓnios).

First Epistle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians

A figure of the early Christian church, mentioned in the Book of Acts and the First Epistle to the Corinthians.


shtreimel

en-noun

shtreimel (plural shtreimels or shtreimlech)

shtreimels (plural)
shtreimlech (plural)

My idea of a walk, influenced by Kazin and honed over these last nine years that I’ve lived in New York, involves a freewheeling thoughtfulness powered by the legs but fed by observation, a physical and mental stream of consciousness nudged this way and that by an infinite number of human variables: an old man doing his esoteric exercises, a lone glove dropped in the middle of a snowy sidewalk, an Orthodox Jew in a shtreimel.

2007 August 19, Nicole Krauss, “The Walker and the Walk”, in New York Times:

(Judaism) A fur hat, usually worn by some married Haredi Jewish men on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions.


Lilith

bor

Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ)

Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold.

1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Body’s Beauty”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 240:

(Judaism) The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.


bentsh

en-verb

bentsh (third-person singular simple present bentshes, present participle bentshing, simple past and past participle bentshed)

bentshes (present singular third-person)
bentshing (participle present)
bentshed (participle past)
bentshed (past)
bench (alternative)
bensh (alternative)
bentsch (alternative)

Borrowed from Yiddish בענטשן (bentshn, “to bless”).


algum

der

אַלְגּוּמִּים

Hebrew אַלְגּוּמִּים (algumím)

And the seruants also of Huram, and the seruants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought Algume trees and, precious stones.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 9:10:

(biblical) A tree or wood mentioned in the Bible, possibly juniper or red sandalwood.


Zebul

Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

An officer of Abimelech. (biblical character)


rosh yeshiva

en-noun

rosh yeshiva (plural roshei yeshiva or rosh yeshivas)

roshei yeshiva (plural)
rosh yeshivas (plural)
rosh yeshivah (alternative)


gemach

(Judaism) A free-loan fund for Orthodox Jews.


hechsher

en-verb

hechsher (third-person singular simple present hechshers, present participle hechshering, simple past and past participle hechshered)

hechshers (present singular third-person)
hechshering (participle present)
hechshered (participle past)
hechshered (past)
hekhsher (alternative)

Kashrut means that you eat ONLY foods that have been supervised and hechshered by a specific organization that is responsible for watching the manufacture and packaging of any particular product. It is NOT just avoiding pigs and shellfish.

2004 November 17, animzmirot, “Keeping Kosher?”, in alt.tv.amazing-race (Usenet):


mazzebah

en-noun

mazzebah (plural mazzebahs or mazzeboth)

mazzebahs (plural)
mazzeboth (plural)
massebah (alternative)


massebah

massebah (plural masseboth or massebahs)

masseboth (plural)
massebahs (plural)
mazzebah (alternative)


rebbetzin

Borrowed from Yiddish רביצין (rebetsin), from Hebrew רב (rebbe, “master”) plus Slavic *-itsa (feminine suffix) plus Yiddish ־ין (-in, feminine suffix).

Sometimes when they could not get to Mendel, the women would come to her, to the rebbetzin, and she would bless them as well as she could, with the little wherewithal she brought to the task.

2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 216:


Pleroma

(Gnosticism, historical) Alternative letter-case form of pleroma (“the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”)


Samael

(Judaism) The angel of death and chief ruler of the 5th heaven.


sandek

sandeks (plural)
sandak (alternative)
sandok (alternative)
sanduk (alternative)

From Yiddish סנדק (sandek), from Hebrew סַנְדָּק (sandák), most likely from Ancient Greek σύντεκνος (súnteknos, literally “companion of child”), from συν- (sun-) + τέκνον (téknon).

der

(Judaism) A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision.


God willing

absolute construction; comparable to the phrase (if) God be willing.

God-willing (alternative)
Godwilling (alternative)
godwilling (alternative)
god willing (alternative)

God willing, we'll meet again same time next year.

See y'all again same time next year, God willing.

And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack.

1602, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince God willing,of Denmark:

(often as disjunct) Barring unforeseen circumstances, it is hoped that (while generally also indicating acceptance of God's will).

神の思し召しがあれば

かみのおぼしめしがあれば

اَللّٰہ چاہے

"Allah" can be replaced with any term relating to God


pearly gates

After the description in Revelation 21:21.

When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?

1795, Joseph Bromehead, Jerusalem, My Happy Home:

This immense wealth; this gilded splendor; this profusion of luxury; this exemption from toil; this life of ease; this sea of plenty; aye, what of it all? Are the pearly gates of happiness and sweet content flung open to such suitors?

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 7, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds.

1908, Harold McGraff, chapter 27, in The Lure of the Mask:

I'd toss for pennies on the front steps of the New Jerusalem or set up a faro layout just outside the Pearly Gates.

1910, Jack London, chapter 20, in Burning Daylight:

By the time they got a doctor down / I was already dead / And I'll never understand why the man / Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

1971, John Prine (lyrics and music), “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore”, in John Prine:

When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape

2007, “Videotape”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:


Rahab

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:25:

(biblical) A prostitute of Jericho who, in the Torah, helped Israelite spies.


Milcah

(biblical) A sister-in-law of Abraham: a sister of Sarah.

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


targum

From Hebrew תַּרְגּוּם (targúm, “translation”).

bor

Jonathan who compiled the Thargum, conceives the colours of these banners to answer the pretious stones in the breastplate, and upon which the names of the Tribes were engraven.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.10:

Eventually, the words of such Aramaic whisper-translations (called chuchotage in the modern world of international interpreters) were written down, mostly in small fragments, and these targums now provide precious linguistic and historical records for scholars of Judaism.

2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 141:

(Judaism) An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.


Holy Mother of God

Mother of God
Mother of God#English:_Q345

(Christianity) Synonym of Mother of God, Mary in her role as mother of God (God the Son).


Holy Mother of God

Holy Mother of God, you've got to go faster than that to get to the top

Mother of God
Mother of God#Interjection

(blasphemous) Synonym of Mother of God, an expression of surprise, frustration, etc.


Holy Mother

A clipping of Holy Mother of God in reference to Mary, mother of Jesus.

(Christianity) Synonym of Mother of God: Mary, mother of Jesus, in her role as mother of God (God the Son).


Old Earth creationism

Old Earth Creationism (canonical)
OEC (alternative)
OECism (alternative)
Old Earth Creationism (alternative)
old-earth creationism (alternative)
old earth creationism (alternative)
old Earth creationism (alternative)

The belief that God created the universe and the Earth very long ago and that the universe and the Earth are as old as scientists have proven.


Young Earth creationism

YEC (alternative)
YECism (alternative)
Young Earth Creationism (alternative)
young-earth creationism (alternative)
young earth creationism (alternative)
young Earth creationism (alternative)

(creationism, pseudoscience) Belief that the universe and the Earth are 6,000 to 10,000 years old as inferred from a literal interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis.


praise the Lord

A present subjunctive clause inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of them. It is semantically equivalent to praise be to God. The zero morph difference from the imperative form allows parsing as a command synchronically.

A phrase used to thank God by Christians.

cultural Christian
cultural Christian#English

Expression of thankful happiness; not always literally religious when used by cultural Christians, but not explicitly differentiable, thus ambiguous.

“There was a time when the homosexual demanded marriage,” he added with an exasperated chuckle. “Praise the Lord, that time is past. PRAISE THE LORD!” he commanded.

2021, Truscott Jones, chapter 1, in For the Common Good: What Happens When the Powerful Get Desperate?, Saint Petersburg, Fla.: BookLocker, →ISBN, page 8:

(UK, mildly blasphemous) Stereotypical exclamation used in mockery of Christianity.


Manoah

(biblical) The father of the biblical strongman Samson.


Sabaoth

/səˈbeɪˌoʊθ/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Σαβαώθ (Sabaṓth), from Biblical Hebrew צבאות (tsabāʾōθ), plural of צבא (tsābāʾ).

(Judaism, Christianity, biblical) An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "Lord of Hosts".; compare the archaic title Drighten.

(Gnosticism) One of the seven chief archons in the Ophite cosmogony.


Sabbatism

Borrowed from Latin sabbatismus, from Ancient Greek.

(Judaism) Strict observance of the Sabbath.


Sabbatist

(Judaism) One who exhibits Sabbatism; a strict observer of the Sabbath.


Mother of God

Calque of Latin Mater Dei and its descendants in other languages, from the Christian concept of the Trinity whereby Jesus as God the Son is identical to God the Father as the single divinity.

Coordinate term: God the Father

(Christianity) A dogmatic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as mother of God (God the Son).

ܝܳܠܕܰܬ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ

Mary, mother of Jesus, as the mother of God or God-bearer — see also Mary, Theotokos, Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, Virgin Mary


bima

bimas (plural)
bema (alternative)
bimah (alternative)

Borrowed from Hebrew בִּימָה (bîmâ). Doublet of bema.

(Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.


shabbos

en-noun

shabbos (countable and uncountable, plural shabbosim or shabboses)

shabbosim (plural)
shabboses (plural)
Shabbes (alternative)
shabbes (alternative)
Shabbos (alternative)

Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.

I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!

1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):

(Judaism) Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).


head

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

From the Gospel of Matthew, verse 19:24. Some assert that "camel" is a misinterpretation of a word meaning "rope" and others assert that the "Needle's Eye" was a gate in the walls of Jerusalem, but the evidence for each of these theories is contested, and the literal interpretation remains the most common.

(Christianity, biblical) It is unlikely that the wealthy will go to heaven.

ʔinna murūra jamal min ṯaqb ʔibratin ʔaysaru min ʔan yadḵula ḡaniyyun ʔilā malakūti llāhi

إِنَّ مُرُورَ جَمَل مِنْ ثَقْب إِبْرَةٍ أَيْسَرُ مِنْ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ غَنِيٌّ إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ اللهِ

det er lettere for en kamel at komme igennem et nåleøje end for en rig at komme ind i Guds rige

eher geht ein Kamel durch ein Nadelöhr, als dass ein Reicher in das Reich Gottes gelangt

det er lettere for en kamel å gå gjennom et nåløye enn for en rik man å komme inn i Guds rike

łatwiej jest wielbłądowi przejść przez ucho igielne, niż bogatemu wejść do królestwa niebieskiego

é mais fácil passar um camelo pelo fundo de uma agulha do que entrar um rico no reino de Deus

léxče verbljúdu projtí skvozʹ igólʹnoje uškó, čem bogačú vojtí v cárstvije nebésnoje

ле́гче верблю́ду пройти́ сквозь иго́льное ушко́, чем богачу́ войти́ в ца́рствие небе́сное

es más fácil que un camello pase por el ojo de una aguja, que un rico entre en el reino de Dios


Eleazar

Borrowed from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár, “God has helped”). Doublet of Lazarus.

bor

And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

(biblical) Any of a number of men in the Old Testament, including a son of Aaron.


Eliezer

And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

Any of a number of men in the Old Testament, including a son of Moses.


Tryphena

From Ancient Greek τρῠφή (trŭphḗ, “softness, daintiness”).

uder

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord.

An early Christian woman mentioned in the Bible.


Zipporah

From Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה (ṣippōrā), a feminization of ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”).

he-m

ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”)

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.


Mahlon

From Biblical Hebrew מַחְלוֹן (makhlón).

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

The first husband of Ruth, mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Bible.


Phinehas

From Biblical Hebrew פִּינְחָס (Pīnəḥās), from Egyptian pꜣ-nḥsj (literally “the Nubian”), from pꜣ + nḥsj.

der

And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

Any of a number of Old Testament men, including a son of Eli and a grandson of Aaron.


Eliel

From Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל ('ĕlī'ēl, “El is my lord”).

bor

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

Any of a number of minor characters in the Old Testament.


afikomen

afikomens (plural)
afikoman (alternative)

Borrowed from Yiddish אַפֿיקומן (afikoymen), from Hebrew אֲפִיקוֹמָן ('afikomán).

The Passover Seders that Jews celebrated on the weekend would have been incomplete without the afikomen.

2008 April 22, Clyde Haberman, “The Unsavory Is No Rarity at City Hall”, in New York Times:

(Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.


holiday season

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What are your plans for the holiday season?

(US, Canada) The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as Halloween, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa


Erastus

From Ancient Greek ἐραστός (erastós, “lovable”).

uder

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek of biblical derivation.


Peleg

en-proper noun

Peleg (countable and uncountable, plural Pelegs)


special creation

We do not know how the Creator created, [or] what processes He used, for He used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by the Creator.

1995, Duane Gish, Evolution: The Fossils Say No, page 42:

In creationism, a theological doctrine which asserts that the origin of the universe and all life in it suddenly sprang into being by unconditional fiat or divine decree.


Potiphar

From Biblical Hebrew פּוֹטִיפַר (potifár).

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, which had brought him down thither.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 39:1:

(biblical) An Egyptian and captain of the guard under Pharaoh.


YHWH

IHVH (alternative)
IHWH (alternative)
JHVH (alternative)
JHWH (alternative)
YHVH (alternative)
YKVK (alternative)

At the very least, the phraseology provides a clear linguistic marker, that the following section should not be read simply as an account of the Chaoskampf of the warrior YHWH battling the forces of chaos.

1993, James Nogalski, Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve, De Gruyter, page 166:

The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.


frim

en-adj

frim (comparative more frim, superlative most frim)

more frim (comparative)
most frim (superlative)


skydaddy

Go on, believe your little book, let it tell you what to do, and when things go bad, cry to your skydaddy, I don't give a fuck.

1998, "Alexander Carlton", Random Thoghts VIII v. 2.1 (on Internet newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop)

No, actually, I'm a sex addict. But at least that's not as bad as being addicted to imaginary skydaddies. :)

2000, Nat, “Get high on God”, in alt.religion.christian-teen (Usenet):

We as intelligent beings have determined all of known time right up to .000001 seconds to the beginning. Give those in the search a little time, and the answer will be there. Problem is, those with beliefs in skydaddies won't accept it. And they still have a hold on you.

2001, Bob Simmons, “Questions Theists Ask Me”, in talk.religion.misc (Usenet):

(derogatory slang) Alternative form of sky daddy: a god; God.


bentsher

(Judaism) A booklet containing grace after meals and often other blessings and prayers related to mealtime.


Bathsheba

From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).

af

3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 11:3:

(biblical) In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.


Uriah

From Biblical Hebrew אוּרִיָּה ('ūriyyā, literally “God is my light”).

uder

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 11:15:

Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.

2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

(biblical) The husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.


Urias

(rather rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Bathshua

(rare) A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Chrismahanukwanzakah

Chrismahanukwanzakahs (plural)
Christmahanukwanzakah (alternative)

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Etymology tree
English Christmasblend.
English Hanukkahblend.
English Kwanzaablend.
English Chrismahanukwanzakah
Blend of Christmas + Hanukkah + Kwanzaa.

etymon

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah! Merry HanuKwanzMas! (Whew... that covers everyone, right?)

2005 December, “Diversity Calendar 2006”, in Cincinati Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Emmis Communications, →ISSN, page 66:

How could Fox ever win its holiday war now? Surely all would be lost, and the nation would be forced to endure another Chrismahanukwanzakah.

2007, Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer, Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News, →ISBN, page 247:

Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

2009 December 16, "John H", “Approval ratings not the best...”, in rec.boats (Usenet):

(humorous) A fictional holiday in December combining aspects of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa into one festival.


Jair

From Middle English Jair, Iair, from Old English Iāirus, from Latin Iaīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρ (Iáïr), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Yair and Jairus.

der

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 10:3:


Tirzah

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning "pleasant" or "she is my delight".

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.


ERV

(biblical) Initialism of English Revised Version.


CYLOR

Initialism of consult your local Orthodox rabbi.

(Judaism, Internet) Used to encourage the addressee to rely upon his rabbi's, rather than others', answers to questions of religious import.

RTFM

encouraging appeal to a specific better source


BHS

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
w:en:Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

(biblical) Initialism of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia., an annotated edition of the Leningrad Codex, an important early Hebrew biblical manuscript.


FSM

en-noun

FSM (countable and uncountable, plural FSMs)

finite-state machine
finite-state machine#English

(countable, computing) Initialism of finite-state machine.


seven seals

(biblical) The seals that secure the book or scroll that John of Patmos saw in an apocalyptic vision.


Zelophehad

From Hebrew צְלָפְחָד (ts'lofchád, “Zelophehad”).

bor

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

(very rare outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.


antediluvial

en-adj

antediluvial (comparative more antediluvial, superlative most antediluvial)

more antediluvial (comparative)
most antediluvial (superlative)

Early 18th c., ante- + diluvial, possibly as alteration of earlier antediluvian.

(biblical) Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood.


Mount Megiddo

A hill in modern Israel near the kibbutz of Megiddo, known for its historical, geographical, and theological importance.


Bethesda

From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

der

בֵּית חַסְדָּא

(biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.


Megiddo

Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley


Yid

Yidden (plural)
Yidn (plural)
Yids (plural)
yid (alternative)

From Yiddish ייִד (yid, “Jew”). Doublet of Jew.

Erdman's response is confessional, 'I am a Yid... I am! My father was a Yid. Please believe me!' (p. 211).

2016, Mark Ledbetter, Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body, page 84:

Cause a yid never breaks, and a yid never bends, and a yid never gives up in the night

“You're a fucking Jew, Grünbaum!” Frege yelled. “A miserable, fucking Yid.”

(soccer, informal) A supporter or club member of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.


Ashur

(biblical) a grandson of Noah in Genesis


ISV

International Standard Version
w:International Standard Version

(biblical) Initialism of International Standard Version.


Og

And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 31:4:

(very rare, outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.


farbrengen

Borrowed from Yiddish פֿאַרברענגען (farbrengen, “joyous gathering”); compare German verbringen (“to spend time together”).

bor

פֿאַרברענגען

cog

(Judaism) A gathering of Hassidic Jews for the purpose of inspiring each other in religion and spirituality.


kiddush

Borrowed from Hebrew קידוש (kidúsh, “kiddush”, literally “sanctification”). Doublet of kaddish.

bor+

Cohn began the seder with a kiddush for wine, and the first two toasts he proposed were the traditional ones to life and to freedom.

1982, Bernard Malamud, “The Schooltree”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux:

(Judaism) A blessing recited over wine or grape juice in commemoration of the sanctity of the Shabbat or other Jewish holy day.


tumtum

bor

Hebrew טומטום

Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.

1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273

As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.

1996, David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature, page 122:

A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.

2001, Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, page 100:

A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.

2003, Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, page 50:

(Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.


cover one's feet

en-verb

cover one's feet (third-person singular simple present covers one's feet, present participle covering one's feet, simple past and past participle covered one's feet)

covers one's feet (present singular third-person)
covering one's feet (participle present)
covered one's feet (participle past)
covered one's feet (past)

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. (Judges 3:24)

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Samuel 24:3)

(euphemistic, biblical) To lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.


Sheba

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

(biblical) A former kingdom in the Red Sea region. An ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa. Frequently equated with ancient Saba.

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 20:1:


Sheba

(dated, slang) A flapper (daring young woman of the Jazz Age).


Sheba

'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.'

1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 172:


sky daddy

sky daddies (plural)
skydaddy (alternative)
Sky Daddy (alternative)
Skydaddy (alternative)

From sky + daddy, originally in reference to the Christian conception of God the Father resident in Heaven.

For starters, having an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of an invisible sky daddy is a bit of a handicap when it comes to assimilating the idea of nightmarish immortal aliens from elsewhere in the multiverse, given that the NIAs in question have historically been identified as gods (subtype: elder).

2010, Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files), New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PR6119.T79 F85 2010, page 81:

An invisible sky daddy didn’t save all those Chilean miners; real people with science and technology got it done!

2010 October 14, “Well Said”, in The Good Atheist, archived from the original on 2011-09-08:

Nature isn’t some sky daddy, it’s what makes up reality by definition.

2011 November 9, Matt Bush, “Nature doesn’t care about us”, in In which I wax acerbic, archived from the original on 2011-11-30:

In the book of fairy tales and myths, a big magical sky daddy delivers the populace his own flesh and blood to get horribly slain so that his resurrected son can become your imaginary bearded hippie-friend.

2011, E. A. St. Amant, The New Ancien Régime, →ISBN, page 79:

“Magic!” said Billy, clapping his hands with delight. “I talked to my sky daddy. He made a magic dream in your heart.”

2011, John Leonard Köehler, Billy Blue Sky:

(slang) A god, especially (derogatory, offensive) God the Father.


Rabshakeh

For example, here is a man, a chief officer or cupbearer, Rabshakeh by name, who represents the king of Assyria[…]

1885, Joseph Parker, The people's Bible: discourses upon Holy Scripture, volume 16, page 83:

(biblical) One of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah, quoted in 2 Kings 18:27–37 and Isaiah 36:12–20.


shochet

en-noun

shochet (plural shochets or shochetim or shochtim)

shochets (plural)
shochetim (plural)
shochtim (plural)
schochat (alternative)
schochet (alternative)
shochat (alternative)
shohet (alternative)

From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).

uder

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9,
He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]

A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry


Reuel

These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 36:10:


karet

(Judaism) A severe punishment prescribed for certain offenses, interpreted variously as expulsion or extinction of the soul.


Gehenna

heaven

antonym(s) of “Christianity, uncountable”

Hawaiian: kehena

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin gehenna, from Ancient Greek γέεννα (géenna), from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (ge'henom, “hell”, literally “valley of Hinnom”), named after the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem, which was constantly filled with the waste of the city, which was then burnt. Heinous deeds are also associated with this valley, as during the time when Jerusalem was ruled by non-Jews (referred to in scriptures simply as 'pagans') child sacrifice was practiced there.

der

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?

In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.


Baruch

Borrowed from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ (Barukh, “blessed”). Cognate with Arabic بَارَك (bārak, “Barak”).

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 36:4:

(biblical) Any of a number of Old Testament men, including the scribe and companion of Jeremiah.

A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


Gershom

From Hebrew גֵּרְשֹׁם (gershóm, “Gershom”), found in Exodus.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:21-22:


Judaica

Borrowed from Latin iūdaica, neuter plural of iūdaicus (“Jewish”), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehuda, “Judah”). By surface analysis, Juda + -ica. Doublet of giudecca.

(very formal) Pertaining to the Jews, their culture or their religion.


Baal-gad

Borrowed from Hebrew בַּעַל גַּד (bá`al gad, “lord of fortune”).

bor

(biblical) A city noted for Baal-worship, located at the most northern or northwestern point to which Joshua's victories extended.


Zionistic

en-adj

Zionistic (comparative more Zionistic, superlative most Zionistic)

more Zionistic (comparative)
most Zionistic (superlative)


Yahuwah

Vocalization of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (יהוה) peculiar to some religious movements.


Gilgal

bor

Hebrew גִּלְגָּל

(biblical) The site of Joshua's encampment before the siege of Jericho.


tichel

From Yiddish טיכל (tikhl), compare German Tuch (“cloth”).

She knew that even with the formless skirts extending to her ankles, the billowing blouses with sleeves reaching her wrists, and her hair covered by the tichel, men turned when they passed her on the street.

2003, Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope, Random House, →ISBN:

The tichel was compared to hijab with suggestions of how Muslim women might adapt it. The contributor ‘mama-star’ was enthusiastic about her discovery, pointing out how the Muslim blogger had talked about her ‘orthodox Jewish sisters’.

2013, Reina Lewis, Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

A headscarf often worn by married orthodox Jewish women in compliance with the code of modesty known as tzeniut, though individuals from other sects of Judaism also wear them depending on personal choice.


Morning Star

In reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, cf. Star of the Sea.

As we now know, the Evening Star is the Morning Star.

1979, Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, “The Rainbow Connection”, The Muppet Movie, Henson Associates and ITC Entertainment
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered / When wished on the morning star? / Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it / And look what it's done so far.

Alternative letter-case form of morning star (“Venus, as seen in the eastern sky around dawn”).

morning star

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you a this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.

1978, Bible (New International Version), Revelation 22:16

(Christianity, uncommon) Synonym of Jesus.


pygarg

From Latin pygargus from Ancient Greek πύγαργος (púgargos), a compound of Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ, “rump”) + ἀργός (argós, “white”).

(biblical) An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food.

דִּישׁוֹן

A large unidentified animal mentioned in the Bible.


maror

(Judaism) A bitter vegetable, such as horseradish or Romaine lettuce, eaten at the Passover seder as a reminder of the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.


Deluge

(Abrahamic religion) The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.


creationistic

en-adj

creationistic (comparative more creationistic, superlative most creationistic)

more creationistic (comparative)
most creationistic (superlative)


Nun

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

(very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.


Hasidic

Hassidic (alternative)
Chasidic (alternative)
Chassidic (alternative)
Hasidish (alternative)
Hassidish (alternative)
Chasidish (alternative)
Chassidish (alternative)

Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.

2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:


darshan

Borrowed from Hebrew דַּרְשָׁן (darshán).


nigun

The Rebbe approached the bima and before responding, sang a nigun that was filled with intense dveykut.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 95:

A type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song.


Cush

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

(biblical) The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.

(biblical) A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.


Haggadah

en-proper noun

Haggadah (plural Haggadahs or Haggadot or Haggadoth)

Haggadahs (plural)
Haggadot (plural)
Haggadoth (plural)
Aggadah (alternative)
Haggada (alternative)

(Judaism) The text which is recited at Seder during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus.


Danite

A descendant of Dan, fifth son of Jacob.

(Mormonism, chiefly historical) A member of a fraternal vigilante group founded by members of the Latter Day Saints in the 1830s.


Danite

Of or pertaining to Dan, or to the tribe of Dan.

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


mizrah

An 1877 Polish mizrah (a plaque hung in the home to indicate which direction to face when praying) by Israel Dov Rosenbaum, a clockmaker, mimics the shape of a mantel clock.

2007 October 5, Martha Schwendener, “Sacred Skills Thrive on a Merry-Go-Round”, in New York Times:

A plaque attached to a wall to indicate the direction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which a Jew should face while praying.


Zillah

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.


etrog

etrogs (plural)
etrogim (plural)
esrog (alternative)
ethrog (alternative)

Citrus medica
Citrus medica#Translingual

(Judaism) The yellow citron (Citrus medica) used in Sukkot ritual.


Nazarite

Nazarites (plural)
nazarite (alternative)
Nazareite (alternative)
Nazirite (alternative)
nazirite (alternative)

A blend of Hebrew נָזִיר (nazír, “nazarite, monk, ascetic”) + -ite, from נִזַּר (nizár, “to separate”).

der

A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from alcohol, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion.


Theotokos

/θiːˈɒtəˌkɒs/

Borrowed from Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “the God-bearer”), from Ancient Greek Θεός (Theós, “God”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”). First attested in 3rd–4th century. Cf. Christotokos.

bor+

It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]

1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:

(Christianity, chiefly Orthodoxy) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.

Hyjlindëses

Mary, mother of Jesus, as God-bearer — see also Mary, Mother of God
Note: Only titles directly borrowed from the Greek or that literally mean "God-bearer" should go here. Translations that simply mean in the language in question should go at that entry.


Aram

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

(biblical) a Biblical region located in modern Syria.


Zacchaeus

From Late Latin Zacchaeus, from Ancient Greek Ζακχαῖος (Zakkhaîos), from Hebrew זכי (zakkay), literally "pure, innocent", which came from זכה (zacha, “be clean, pure”).

Zacchæus (alternative)
Zaccheus (alternative)

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:8:


baraminological

(creationism) Of or pertaining to baraminology.


Bethphage

/ˈbɛθ.fəˌd͡ʒi/

From Aramaic בית-פגי (literally “house of unripe figs”).

(biblical) A place near Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.


Talitha

From Aramaic טליתא (ṭalyəṯāʾ, “female child, girl, maiden”). From a passage in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus restores to life a little girl.

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Talitha Bateman

Talitha Getty

Talitha Washington

A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Cephas

Borrowed from Latin Cephas, from Ancient Greek Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs), from Aramaic כֵּיפָא/Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”).

Aramaic כֵּיפָא

And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

The apostle Peter, using the name given to him by Jesus.

A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Jacob's ladder

Jacob's ladders (plural)
Jacob's-ladder (alternative)
Jacob's Ladder (alternative)

Jacob's ladder; Christ is Jacob's ladder that reacheth up to heaven; and he that refuseth to go by this ladder thither, will scarce by other means get up so high.

1691, John Bunyan, “The Jerusalem Sinner Saved”, in The Works of John Bunyan, volume 1:


Peshitta

From Classical Syriac ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (pəšīṭtā), shortened from ܡܦܩܬܐ ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (mappaqtā pəšīṭtā, “simple version”).


Judas Iscariot

From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas) Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see Judas Iscariot § Name and background.

(biblical) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.


Kenan

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.

(biblical) A descendant of Seth, son of Enos.


Tobit

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

(biblical) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


Judaist

All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists.

2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:

(Judaism, uncommon) One who believes and practices Judaism.

judismano

practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew


neo-creo

That's why there's no scientific controversy about common descent, the "fact of evolution." When pressed, even neo-creos (such as Michael Behe, the author of Darwin's Black Box) admit this (although, under other circumstances they're inclined to hedge and fudge).

1999 August 17, Phillip E. Johnson with Philip Kitcher, “Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools?”, in Slate Magazine, →ISSN:

In the early 1990's, however, a new breed of creationists appeared. These "neo-creos," as they have been called, are no Dogpatch hayseeds. They have Ph.D.'s and occupy positions at some of the better universities. The case they make against Darwinism does not rest on the authority of Scripture; rather, it proceeds from premises that are scientific and philosophical, invoking esoteric ideas in molecular biology, information theory and the logic of hypothesis testing.

2002 April 14, Jim Holt, “Supernatural Selection”, in New York Times, →ISSN:

To counter the "sophisticated branding experts" who flummoxed establishmentarian evolutionaries with intelligent design, opponents of classroom debate over Darwin's theory have come up with a catchily derisive neologism that lumps the modern I.D. advocates with religious fundamentalists: neo-creo.

2005 August 21, William Safire, “Neo-Creo”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN:

That makes it all the more important for the layman to distinguish the various gradations between evolutionists, serious scientists who are interested in ID, "neo-Creos," and Biblical literalists.

2005 August 28, Sally Jenkins, “Just Check the ID”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:


neo-creo

en-adj

neo-creo (comparative more neo-creo, superlative most neo-creo)

more neo-creo (comparative)
most neo-creo (superlative)

I come at last to the most basic difficulty with the neo-creo attack, it's dim suggestions that the scientific world needs a shot of supernaturalism.

2003, Phillip Kitcher, “Born-Again Creationism”, in In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QH331.K6145 2003, page 373:


Waheguru

(religion, Sikhism) God as conceived by Sikhism.


Judaïsm

These republished studies do not by any means cover the whole ground taken in China and Religion;—for instance, I had published no previous special studies of Manicheism, Judaïsm, or Shintōism, but composed the chapters on those subjects in 1905 directly from notes I had gradually stored, and from the works of others who had already nearly exhausted the matter available for study, and had published the results of their labours.

1910, Edward Harper Parker, Studies in Chinese Religion, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., page vii:


Onan

And Iudah said vnto Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and marrie her, and raise vp seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to passe when hee went in vnto his brothers wife, that hee spilled it on the ground, least that hee should giue seed to his brother. And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD: wherefore hee slew him also.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8–10:


Gemara

Gemora (alternative)
Gemoro (alternative)
Gemorra (alternative)

(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.


Gemaric

(Judaism) Of or pertaining to the Gemara.


Valentinian

From Valentinus + -ian, named after the founder.

(historical) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century.


selah

From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.

God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

1568, Matthew Parker, The holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe [The Bishops' Bible], London: Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, →OCLC, Habakkuk 3:3:

LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that riſe vp againſt me. / Many there bee which ſay of my ſoule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ſheild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 3:1–4:

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. / From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. / For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. / I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

1769, The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches [King James Version], Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, →OCLC, Psalm 61:1–4:

[…] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of סֶלָה (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240

Students of Selah have been puzzled because in the psalms, which Mishna ascribes to each day of the week for the daily sacrifice, the desired number of Selahs is not to be found. The answer is that the pᵉraqim were timed to the ritual at the altar and that, even though the term Selah might not occur at all in some of these psalms, the pᵉraqim and prostrations referred to the actual Selah ceremony.

1968, Rembert Sorg, Habaqquq III and Selah, Fifield, Wis.: King of Martyrs Priory, →OCLC, page 33:

(biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.


Essenism

en-noun

Essenism (usually uncountable, plural Essenisms)

In taking leave , I add , as an extra argument against the possibility that Essenism could have been contemporary with the birth of Christianity[…]

1858, Thomas De Quincey, The Essenes Supplementary:

The doctrines or practices of the Essenes.


Gemarist

(Judaism) Someone versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.


Lamech

(biblical, Torah) Either of two antediluvians.

Either of two antediluvians.
The third-great-grandson of Cain.

Either of two antediluvians.
The father of Noah.


intertestamental

From inter- + testamental, in reference to the Old and New Testament.

While no full length study has been pursued on the intertestamental influence upon I Cor. 1:18–3:23, a number of scholars find similarity between intertestamental literature and different sections of this passage.

2001, H. H. Drake Williams, III, The Wisdom of the Wise: The Presence and Function of Scripture within 1 Cor. 1:18–3:23, page 15:

(Christianity) Pertaining to the time between the writing of Malachi and the writing of the New Testament, roughly the last four centuries BCE and first half of the first century.

intertestamental

pertaining to the period of time between the writing of Malachi and the wrtiting of the New Testament


Frankism

From Frank + -ism, from the last name of Jacob Frank, the 18th-century Polish Jewish religious leader who initiated the movement.

(religion) An offshoot of Judaism started by the Polish Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank.


associationist

(Judaism) a shitufi; one who ascribes partners to Hashem (God) or believes in the Trinity.


Talmudist

From Talmud + -ist. Compare French talmudiste.

Someone who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.


bat mitzvah

bat mitzvah (plural bat mitzvahs or b'not mitzvah)

bat mitzvahs (plural)
b'not mitzvah (plural)
bat-mitzvah (alternative)
bas mitzvah (alternative)
bath mitzvah (alternative)

From Hebrew בַּת מִצְוָה (bát mitsvá, “bat mitzvah, someone who has come of age”).

bor

בַּת מִצְוָה

(Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl.


goel

Borrowed from Hebrew גוֹאֵל (goél, “he redeems”).

The go·el neutralizes the deleterious effect of the blood of the slain, restoring the ecologic balance.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 963:

(historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.


Hexapla

From hexapla, from Ancient Greek ἑξαπλά (hexaplá), neuter plural of ἑξαπλοῦς (hexaploûs, “sixfold”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “hexa-: six”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

A Biblical hexapla: an edition of the Bible in six parallel versions or languages.


khalat

khalats (plural)
kellaut (alternative)
khelaut (alternative)
khilat (alternative)
killaut (alternative)
killut (alternative)

(historical, Judaism) A long, close-fitting coat with shawl collars and pockets, worn by Ashkenazi Jewish men in Eastern Europe until the early 20th century


lulav

(Judaism) A festive bouquet of willow, myrtle and a closed date palm frond, used in Jewish ritual on Sukkot.


Nethinim

From Hebrew נָתִינ (natín, “given; granted; a slave of the temple”).

(historical, Judaism) A servant of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.


Zionize

en-verb

Zionize (third-person singular simple present Zionizes, present participle Zionizing, simple past and past participle Zionized)

Zionizes (present singular third-person)
Zionizing (participle present)
Zionized (participle past)
Zionized (past)
Zionise (alternative)

(sometimes derogatory) to make (something) Zionist or more Zionist


sciniph

From Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (skníps, “gnat, small fly(, flea?)”), plural σκνῖφες (sknîphes) or σκνῖπες (sknîpes).

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And they did ſo. And Aaron ſtreched fotth his hand, holding the rodde: and he ſtroke the duſt of the earth, and there were made ſciniphes on men and on beaſtes: al the duſt of the earth was turned into ſciniphes through the whole Land of Ægypt.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 8:17, page 178:

The sciniphs and flies are common in warm, and the sciniphs especially in marshy countries.

1885, George R. Northgraves, Mistakes of Modern Infidels; or Evidences of Christianity […], page 205:

But it is worth noting that three of the plagues—blast, frost and fire—which he mentioned here do not appear at all in Exodus. […] In fact, in place of these three, there are recounted three others, sciniphs, boils, and darkness.

1991 [c. 540], Cassiodorus, translated by P. G. Walsh, Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, volume 2, →ISBN, page 267:

(archaic, biblical) A kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like.


Octapla

From Late Latin Octapla, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

A Biblical octapla: an edition of the Bible in eight parallel versions or languages.


Judeo-Islamo-Christian

Receiving a Merina blessing is not just the receipt of supernatural benediction, as it is in the Judeo-Islamo-Christian tradition, it is something which materially transforms inwardly, as though it were a kind of internal coral.

1987, Göran Aijmer, editor, Symbolic Textures: Studies in Cultural Meaning, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, →ISBN, →OL, page 25:

Because the Middle East is the cradle of the Judeo-Islamo-Christian paradigm, the sectarian milieu, as John Wansbrough put it in a fundamental book on the semantic structure of religions,24 has remained relevant worldwide.

1990, Chibli Mallat, “Islamic Family Law: Variations on State Identity and Community Rights”, in Chibli Mallat, Jane Frances Connors, editors, Islamic Family Law, Brill, →ISBN, →OL, pages 5–6:

Whereas the Classical West was Judeo-Islamo-Christian and Greco-Arab, we have been led to believe that it was only Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian.

2008, “Friendship Above All”, in Teresa Lavender Fagin, transl., Islam & the West: A Conversation With Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, translation of original by Mustapha Chérif, →ISBN, →OL, page xxi:

Of or pertaining to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.


Judeo-Christian-Islamic

Hell appears in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic context originally as a place of smoke and fire.

2010, Christopher M. Moreman, Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 251:

Of or pertaining to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam collectively.


posek

Standard disclaimer.... I am not a posek. Always consult a real posek if you want a real p'sak. Poskim don't waste their time answering Usenet postings. :-)

1996 April 28, Jonathan Kamens, “Question on love affairs and illegitimate children”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) decisor; legal scholar who decides the Halacha in cases where previous authorities are inconclusive or no halakhic precedent exists.


Hasidism

Chasidism (alternative)
Chassidism (alternative)
Hassidism (alternative)
Ḥasidism (alternative)
Ḥassidism (alternative)
Khasidism (alternative)
Khassidism (alternative)

(Judaism) a Jewish movement founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal-Shem-Tov


hexameron

hexamerons (plural)
Hexameron (alternative)
hexæmeron (alternative)
hexaëmeron (alternative)
hexaemeron (alternative)
hexahemeron (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).

(theology) The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.


Elijah seat

But Cohn can and does extend "recognition," suspecting from the beginning a significant core of feeling in the immense isolato, seeing hints of a "true gentleman" and even going so far as to offer him the Elijah seat at the Seder.

1987, Joel Salzberg, Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud, G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 219:

Because of my schedule of chores, the seder was half-over when I arrived and there was a choice of two seats: one right beside the rabbi, or else Elijah's seat, a chair that sits empty in case the prophet Elijah turns up with the Messiah in tow, on his donkey. I sat beside Michael as I am not Elijah, and I have absolutely no messianic pretensions or connections, and thus the Elijah seat implied responsibilities that I did not care to take on.

2003 September 7, Bonnie Glassford, Living the Sacred Story: A Journey Into the Landscape of the Bible, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 196:

The Elijah seat on which the sandák sits and the performance of the brit at the synagogue as a religious ritual are elements that help affirm the link to Judaism.

2004, Matilda Koén-Sarano, King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition, Wayne State University Press, page 193:

(Judaism) In Jewish ceremonies, an unoccupied seat reserved for the prophet Elijah.


synoptist

An author of one of the synoptic gospels, that is, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.


Litvak

A small man, sunburned as a gypsy, in a torn blouse, with a jet-black beard and enormous flashing eyes, was expostulating in a hoarse voice with a peppery Litvak accent, gesticulating violently and flinging his head from side to side.

1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, chapter 4, in A. H. Gross et al., transl., The Family Moskat, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 60:

The rabbi under the silk wedding canopy, held up by split triangular poles of quartered eucalyptus exuding an aromatic sap, is ill at ease but ready for business. He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.

Kibbutz Kinneret’s famed teigelach, the honey-drenched cookies beloved by Litvaks, were parceled up in a Red Cross package, intended to reach one of its members who had fallen into Syrian captivity during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. What better way to guarantee that he would know the food came from home?

2013 April 16, Jonathan Cummings, “Digging Deep Into the Collective Kitchens of Israel”, in The Forward:

A Lithuanian Jew, or an Ashkenazi Jew from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.


charmel

And iudgement shal dwel in the wildernes, and iuſtice shal ſit in charmel.

1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Isaie 32:16, page 494:


shamash

shamashim (plural)
shamashes (plural)
shames (alternative)
shamos (alternative)
shammes (alternative)
shammos (alternative)

From Hebrew שַׁמָּשׁ (shamásh, “waiter, sexton”). Doublet of shammes, via Yiddish.

bor

The candelabras lit on Hanukkah are technically called hanukkiahs. They have eight candles plus one more, a shamash, that is used for lighting the others.

2023 December 7, Jacey Fortin, “For Some, the Symbols of Hanukkah Bring Extra Concern This Year”, in The New York Times:

(Judaism) The candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah or hanukkiah.


Amidah

From Hebrew תפילת העמידה (‘ămîḏâ ha-təfilláṯ, “the standing prayer”).

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תפילת העמידה

(Judaism) A prayer primarily consisting of nineteen blessings recited in a whisper while standing facing the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.


kollel

Borrowed from Hebrew כולל (“collective, community”).

bor+

(education, Judaism) An institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.


Benjaminite

A descendant of the Biblical Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.


cdesign proponentsist

en-noun

cdesign proponentsist (plural cdesign proponentsists)

From "cdesign proponentsists", a typographic splicing of design proponents into c[reation]ists, in a 1987 draft for the book Of Pandas and People when, after the US Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in US state schools was unconstitutional, the terms creationism and creationists were replaced by intelligent design and design proponents in an attempt to get around the ban.

On the “Wells lies. Again.” thread a few months ago, I pointed out to the cdesign proponentsist that the existence of Stupid Design falsified ID.

2007 December 15, David Marjanovi?, “Billy Dembski, pious and deluded (comment)”, in Pharyngula, retrieved 2012-10-28:

Famous cdesign proponentsist Dembski brought it up again recently in his list of ID "predictions"...

2008 February 18, Sparky, “What's that appendix for, anyway?”, in Discount Thoughts, retrieved 2012-10-28:

But you must not like him because he appointed Judge Jones, who ruled against the cdesign proponentsists, calling their nonsense "breathtaking inanity."

2011 April 8, Frank J, “Re: Warning to the NON-Christians in this group”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet), message-ID <7856598f-1cae-401b-9f88-9e658121fb4d@x3g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>:

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) A creationist.


Balaam

And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 22:28:

Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey. God said, “They summoned you, but you listen to me.” Balaam riding his donkey and his two servants with him, The angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him, The angel with a […]

2017 December 19, LaMar Smith, Poetic Scripture: Genesis to Ruth Stories of the Bible in Poetic Form, WestBow Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:


Sinaic

en-adj

Sinaic (comparative more Sinaic, superlative most Sinaic)

more Sinaic (comparative)
most Sinaic (superlative)

From Sinae + -ic, q.v., under influence of Judaic, Altaic, etc. and French sinique.

We will separate [the 'Yellow Race'] into three branches—the Hyperborean, the Mongolian, and the Sinaic branches.

1872, Guillaume Louis Figuier, The Human Race, page 205:

(rare, obsolete) Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.


IDiot

Blend of ID (“intelligent design”) + idiot

blend

In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired from a research position at a "prestigious molecular biology laboratory" the very same day a press story appeared exposing this character as being an IDiot.

2004 March 12, David Ford, “Re: How is this for an ID lesson plan?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <b1c67abe.0403121312.35d2e0c@posting.google.com>:

Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.

2008 October 17, Prof Weird, “Re: Pretty cool eh?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <9f2b4ea1-f138-4ff1-b526-ea6ba94156e4@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>:

Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not support their IDiot Bibliolatry.

2012 September 18, Virgil, “Re: Creationists SUICIDAL After Evidence Dumps Them”, in alt.talk.creationism (Usenet), message-ID <virgil-2B02C7.14220718092012@bignews.usenetmonster.com>:

(slang, derogatory) A proponent of intelligent design.


Temple

(Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.


Sethian

A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who venerated the Biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, depicted in their creation myths as a divine incarnation.


JTA

Java Transaction API
w:Java Transaction API

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Transaction API.


defenced

en-adj

defenced (comparative more defenced, superlative most defenced)

more defenced (comparative)
most defenced (superlative)

But if any proper burning of the Sunne should be vnderstood, how isit, that it afflicteth the wicked more thế the good, whereas both of them dwell mingled together vppon the earth and the one of them is not more defenced frố the force of the heauenly bodies, then the other.

1616, Thomas Brightman, The Reuelation of St Iohn, page 680:

Human invention
 Could not instruct me to dispose her where
 She could be more defenced from all men's eyes;
 An anchorite lives not prisoned in a wall
 With more security.

1633, James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage:

Comparison of the condition to which the defenced city is to be reduced, to a wilderness.

1854 July, “A Designation and Exposition of the Figures in Isaiah”, in The Theological and Literary Journal, volume 7, number 1, page 150:

The reason why they are a defenced city during the time of their taking root, just like today, is because they are in their land, but not in their land undere the blessing of the old covenant. Once they are in their land undere the old covenant, because God purged them, they will not need a defense. Because the Lord is their defense. Today, Israel is a defenced city with walls as they are taking root.

2010, Clair L. Hassell, Jonathan C. Hassell, Will the Red Sea Part Again, page 92:

(archaic, biblical) Having defenses; defended.


lechi

From Hebrew לֶחִי (léḥi, “stake fastened in the ground”, literally “jawbone”).

bor

(Judaism) A pole used in demarcating an eruv.


Bethlehemite

Bethlehemites (plural)
Bethlemite (alternative)

Faris, the only Bethlehemite in the cast, was striding along with a tour-guide air, visibly pleased to have us on his turf.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 218:


Zionistan

Blend of Zionist + -stan, equivalent to Zion + -i- + -stan

(neologism, rare, offensive, derogatory) The State of Israel, viewed as Zionist.


minor prophet

From minor (“shorter, smaller”) + prophet. The term derived from the shorter length of these books of the Bible, as compared to the much longer major prophets.

Any of the twelve prophetic books at the end of the Old Testament.

kispróféta

any of twelve prophetic books at the end of the Old Testament


major prophet

From major (“greater, longer”) + prophet. The term derived from the greater length of these books of the Bible, as compared to the much shorter minor prophets.

Any of the five longer prophetic books in the Old Testament: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, or Daniel.


Yiddishkeit

yiddishkayt (alternative)
yidishkayt (alternative)
yidishkeyt (alternative)

Wait! my Ezekiel will be Bar-mitzvah in a few years; then you shall see what I will do for that Shool. You shall see what an example of Yiddishkeit I will give to a link generation.

1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 12, in The Grandchildren of the Ghetto, London: J.M. Dent, page 175:

1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Anchor Books, 2005, Chapter Six,
“In America, everything is called Yiddishkeit,” Rav Kalman said. “A Jew travels to synagogue on Shabbos in his car, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew eats ham but gives money to philanthropy, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew prays three times a year but is a member of a synagogue, that is called Yiddishkeit. Judaism”—he pronounced the word in English, contemptuously: Joo-dah-eeism—“everything in America calls itself Judaism.”

2000, Curt Leviant (translator), “The Shochet’s Wife” in More Stories from My Father’s Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1956), New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 17,
He wants a loose girl, a bareheaded piece who doesn’t keep Yiddishkeit.

Jewishness; the Jewish way of life, particularly Ashkenazi and Yiddish culture.


decisor

From Latin dēcīsor, from dēcīdō (past participial stem dēcīs-) + -or.

(Judaism) A rabbi who decides matters in Jewish religious law.

פּוֹסֵק

Judaism: one who decides matters in Jewish law


Breslover

A member of a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810).


Jephthah

Jephtha (alternative)
Jephte (alternative)

A judge described in the Book of Judges of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.


notarikon

Alternative form of notariqon (canonical)

From Hebrew נוטריקון, borrowed from Ancient Greek νοταρικόν (notarikón).

der

Hebrew נוטריקון

A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence.


B"H

(Judaism) b'ezrat hashem (Transliterated form of ב״ה, written at the top of documents).


BS"D

בס״ד בס״ד#Hebrew

(Judaism) besiyata dishmaya (Transliterated form of בס״ד, written at the top of documents).


Chrismukkah

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Etymology tree
English Christmasblend.
English Hanukkahblend.
English Chrismukkah
Blend of Christmas + Hanukkah.
A similar formation can be found in German Weihnukka (from Weihnachten (“Christmas”)), and compare also Dutch Chanoeklaas, a merger of Hanukkah and the Dutch winter holiday of Sinterklaas which similarly involvies gift-giving.

etymon

Kimberly Duran of DallasNews.com, for example, referenced restaurants that served Chrismukkah foods in 2005 when Hanukkah and Christmas coincided.

2012, Joshua Eli Plaut, A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish, page 147:

Celebrating both holidays is nothing new. But the TV show “The O.C.” helped popularize a term for it when the character Seth Cohen (played by Adam Brody) celebrated “Chrismukkah” in an episode in 2003.

2024 December 21, Remy Tumin, Claire Moses, “This Chrismukkah, Latkes and Eggnog Go Together”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

The merged holiday of Christmas and Hanukkah.


balabos

One cloth merchant, one of the more important balabatim in the city, lost almost all of his possessions and declared bankruptcy. With a heavy heart, he decided to go to the head of the city, Rabbi Yosef, and ask for a loan of several hundred rubles so he could repay his debts.

2000, Jason Aronson, “What Made Rabbi Yitzhak Change His Behavior”, in Stories within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition, →ISBN, page 320:

In the United States and Israel, however, insiders view one who leaves the yeshiva or kollel for outside employment and thus becomes a balabos, a lay householder, as a flop. He has, after all, abandoned eternity, a life of the spirit, for everyday work. Every yeshiva student I spoke to expressed this “fear” of ending up a balabos.

2004, Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby, “By Torah Alone: Yeshiva Fundamentalism in Jewish Life”, in Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, →ISBN, page 249:

I once knew a balabos who was a very fine person. He came to me at a time when we didn't have a mikveh or a yeshivah in our community. He said to me, “Rabbi, there is one thing that this place is missing in order for it to be a top-notch Torah community. […] A first-class, elegant glatt kosher French restaurant.”

2007, Rabbi Zev Leff, “Glatt Kosher Goyishkeit”, in Torah Talks: 25 Leaders and Educators Talk about the Power of Torah in Our Lives, →ISBN, page 230:

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of balebos


balebos

balebatim (plural)
baal-ha-bos (alternative)
balabos (alternative)
balaboss (alternative)
baleboss (alternative)

Borrowed from Yiddish בעל־הבית (balebos), from Hebrew בַּעַל הַבַּיִת (bá'al habáyit, “master of the house”).

der

בַּעַל הַבַּיִת

(Judaism) Master of the house, head of the household, host.

(Judaism, by extension) Boss, person in charge (of anything).

An annual custom that lasted for many years involved a celebration of the eight days of Chanukah for all of the balebatim. Every evening was hosted by a different balebos and there was a lavish feast.

2008, Joseph Margoshes, “Reb Vovtshi's Kloyz”, in A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia, →ISBN, page 51:

The rabbi, whom I met and then overheard at a kiddush after shul, was going over his sermon with some of the balebatim, […].

1996, Jonathan Boyarin, “My Trip to Israel, Continued”, in Palestine and Jewish History: Criticism at the Borders of Ethnography, →ISBN, page 153:

(Judaism) Layman, congregant, non-clergy.


baleboste

balebatim (plural)
balabosta (alternative)
balaboosta (alternative)
balabusta (alternative)
balabuste (alternative)
balabusteh (alternative)
balabooste (alternative)
bala booste (alternative)
bala boosta (alternative)
balebosta (alternative)
balebuste (alternative)
baleboosteh (alternative)

Borrowed from Yiddish בעל־הביתטע (baleboste), feminine form of בעל־הבית (balebos), from Hebrew בַּעַל הַבַּיִת (bá'al habáyit, “master of the house”).

בַּעַל הַבַּיִת

(Judaism) ideal housewife, homemaker, hostess


burning bush

(Judaism, Christianity) A biblical object described in Exodus 3:1-22, used by Yahweh to communicate with Moses.


Jerem.

Compare Zephan. i. 4, 5. 9. with Jerem. ii. 5. 20. 32.

1826, George Townsend (editor), The Old Testament: Arranged in Historical & Chronological Order II (second edition), Sixth Period, chapter xvi, page 445


Joh.

Luk. 10. 5. Into whatſoever Houſe ye enter, firſt ſay, Peace be to this Houſe. Joh. 14. 27. Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you. Joh. 20. 19. — The firſt Day of the Week, — came Jeſus, and ſtood in the midſt, and ſaith unto them, Peace be unto you.

1722, Francis Fox, editor, The New Teſtament, with References under the Text in Words at length; ſo that the parallel Texts may be ſeen at one View, volume II (second edition, 1748), Romans I.7, page 593, footnote n, column 1, lines 20-28:

(biblical, rare) Abbreviation of John (Gospel of John).


2 Joh.

2 Joh. ver. 3. Grace be with you, Mercy and Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, the Son of the Father.

1722, Francis Fox, editor, The New Teſtament, with References under the Text in Words at length; ſo that the parallel Texts may be ſeen at one View, volume II (second edition, 1748), Romans I.7, page 593, footnote m, column 1, lines 14-17:

(biblical, rare) Abbreviation of 2 John.


Zerubbabel

Borrowed from Hebrew זרובבל / זְרֻבָּבֶל (Zərubbāḇél).

he-m

זרובבל / זְרֻבָּבֶל (Zərubbāḇél)

(biblical) a governor of the Persian Province of Judah, who led the first group of Jews returned from the Babylonian Captivity.


Luc.

Probably abbreviating the Latin Lūcās (“Luke the Evangelist; by extension, [Gospel of] Luke”).

uder

Luke the Evangelist; by extension, 􂀿Gospel of􂁀 Luke

ἄβυσσος Luc. 8, 31. Rom. 10, 7. Apoc. 9, 1. 2. 11. 11, 7. 17, 8. 20, 1. 3.

1837, Edward Cardwell, Ἡ Καινή Διαθήκη – The New Testament in Greek and English; with a Marginal Harmony, References to Parallel Passages, a Concordance of Words, and a Graduated Collection of Various Readings, volume II: The Epistles and the Apocalypse, Oxford University Press, concordance of words, “ἄβυσσος”

(rare biblical abbreviation) Luke (Gospel of Luke)


karpas

Borrowed from Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás).

She had looked at the girl as she took the karpas and when her face changed she thought it must be the bitterness.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 243:

(Judaism) A traditional ritual dish eaten at Passover, consisting of a vegetable (typically celery or parsley) dipped in salt water or other liquid.


Matth.

A convergent abbreviation of the English Matthew and of its Latin equivalent Matthaeus.

“Augustine observes how those who are addressed here as ‘being evil,’ are the very same into whose mouths but just now the Lord has put that word, ‘Our Father;’ to whom he has made the promise ‘Ask and it shall be given you;’ so that every faithful, i. e., believing man, has a double aspect, he is ‘evil’ through his old nature, he is good through participation with him who is the highest good, who is in some sense the alone good (Matth. xix. 17), the good in himself, and altogether good, while others are good through him, and only as they are sharers of his life.[”]

1846, Richard Trench, Christ the Desire of All Nations, quoted in: John Brown, Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Illustrated in a Series of Expositions (second edition, 1854), volume I, exposition iv: “The Sermon on the Mount”, note i: ‘Reference of the word πονηροὶ, Matth. vii. 11, Trench’, page 305

(biblical abbreviation) Matthew (Gospel of Matthew)


peace be upon him

Calque of Arabic عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu, “peace be upon him”)

calque

عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ

Peace be upon him
Peace be upon him in Judaism

(Judaism) an honorific phrase used by some Jews after mentioning the deceased in speech or print


Annas

From Latin Annas (used in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Ἅννας (Hánnas), from Hebrew / Aramaic חנן (khanan) as a shortened form of חֲנַנְיָה (khananya).

(biblical) A Jewish high priest known for having four sons and a son-in-law (Caiaphas) succeed him in his lifetime; and for cooperating with Caiaphas to have Jesus Christ crucified.

حنان

A Jewish high priest in the first century CE.


Hakadosh Baruch Hu

/həkəˈdoʊʃ bəɹʊˈhuː/

/həˈkʌdəʃ ˈbʌɹʊhuː/

Transliteration of Hebrew הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא (haqqāḏôš bārûḵ hû).

translit

הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא

haqqāḏôš bārûḵ hû

HaKadosh Baruch Hu (alternative)
Kadosh Baruch Hu (alternative)
Hakodesh Boruch Hu (alternative)
HaKodesh Boruch Hu (alternative)
Kodesh Boruch Hu (alternative)
Hakodesh Baruch Hu (alternative)
HaKodesh Baruch Hu (alternative)
Kodesh Baruch Hu (alternative)

(Judaism) God, literally "the Holy One, blessed be He".


Gerasene

Gerasenes (plural)
Gergesene (alternative)

From the Late Latin Gerasēnus, Gergesēnus, from the Ancient Greek Γερασηνός (Gerasēnós), Γεργεσηνός (Gergesēnós), from Γέρασα (Gérasa), Γέργεσα (Gérgesa).

And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:28:

(chiefly historical) A native or inhabitant of Gerasa.


tallit katan

tallit katans (plural)
talit katan (alternative)

A fringed poncho-like garment traditionally worn either under or over the clothing by Jewish males.


yichud

(Judaism) The prohibition in Jewish religious law against seclusion in a private area of a man and a woman who are not married to each other, so as to prevent adultery or promiscuity.

If a man and a woman entered yichud, in the presence of witnesses, with the intent of their act signifying marriage, they *would* be married enough to require a get, regardless of whether or not they actually had sex in the room.

1996 April 30, Jonathan Kamens, “Question on love affairs and illegitimate children”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) The state of being secluded in a private area with someone of the opposite sex.


Antipas

Through Latin Antipās from Ancient Greek Ἀντῐ́πᾱς (Antĭ́pās), a contraction of Ἀντῐ́πᾰτρος (Antĭ́pătros); from ἀντῐ́πᾰτρος (antĭ́pătros, “an initiate to the highest grade of the Mysteries of Mithras”).

At the death of Herod the Great (4 b.c.), his sons — Archelaus, Herod Antipas, and Herod Philip — were given jurisdiction over his divided kingdom. Herod Antipas became the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea […].

2002, Kenneth L. Barker (general editor), Zondervan NIV Study Bible, Zondervan, note on Luke 3:1

(biblical) Herod Antipas, tetrarch of the ancient Roman province of Judea, known for his roles in the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.

I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

2011, Bible (New International Version), Biblica, Inc., Revelation 2:13

(biblical) A martyr from the early Christian church at Pergamum.


ziofascism

(derogatory, offensive, see usage notes) An authoritarian or totalitarian form of Zionism.


ziofascist

en-adj

ziofascist (comparative more ziofascist, superlative most ziofascist)

more ziofascist (comparative)
most ziofascist (superlative)


anti-Zionism

Opposition to Zionism; activism against Zionism.


Feast of Light

From the importance of candles or light in the celebration.

1940, Emily Solis-Cohen, Jr., Hanukkah: The Feast of Light, Jewish Publication Society:

We celebrate Hanukkah, the Feast of Light, in commemoration of the Maccabees' putting an end to the sinister oppression [...]

1942, Jewish Spectator, volume 7, page 46:

Chanukah recounts the rededication of the Sanctuary which had been despoiled by the Greeks. The celebration of the eight-day Feast of Light recalls the victorious survival of the Sanctuary, not the courage of the Maccabees.

1997, The collected writings, volume 7, →ISBN, page 200:

(Judaism) Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.


Magog

(biblical) The second of the seven sons of Japheth.


Ez.

Abbreviation of Ezra (book of the Bible).


meat offering

(religion, Judaism, Christianity) An offering of food, especially of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.


Haredi

en-noun

Haredi (plural Haredis or Haredi or Haredim)

Haredis (plural)
Haredi (plural)
Haredim (plural)
Charedi (alternative)
Chareidi (alternative)
Hareidi (alternative)

bor

Hebrew חֲרֵדִי (ḥărēḏî)

Throughout Israel’s history, the Haredim have been reluctant participants in mainstream society, often prioritizing the study of scripture over conventional employment and army service.

2021 February 17, Dan Balilty, Patrick Kingsley, “‘How Many Funerals Will Come Out of This One?’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A member of a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.

哈雷迪

member of a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of secular culture


shamos

Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”)


Seventy

The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 […].

1823, Herbert Marsh, Introduction to the New Testament, 4th edition, volume 1, page 224:

It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry.

1988, Elias J. Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, →ISBN, page 114:

Jerome could accommodate himself to the ecclesiastical consensus, but he expresses clearly and trenchantly his critical opinion that the Seventy were not inspired […].

1989, William McKane, Selected Christian Hebraists, →ISBN, page 127:


Ephraimite

An adaptation of the Latin Ephraimītēs, Ephraimīta, from the Ancient Greek Ἐφραιμῑ́tης (Ephraimī́tēs), from Ἐφραίμ (Ephraím, “Ephraim”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Equivalent to Ephraim + -ite.

suffix

(history, chiefly biblical) An allegiant of the Israelite tribal patriarch Ephraim, a member of the tribe purportedly descended from him, or an inhabitant of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (930–720 B.C.), in which the tribe of Ephraim was preëminent.


Mussaf

Mussafim (plural)
Musaf (alternative)
Musof (alternative)
Mussof (alternative)

Exemplary in this regard is the thematic centrality of Obad. 1:21 in Jewish liturgy, because it serves as one of the climactic verses in part of the Rosh ha-Shanah Musaf service (known as Malkhuyot), celebrating and proclaiming God's future kingdom or dominion.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 222:

(Judaism) An additional prayer service recited on holy days (Shabbat, Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, and Rosh Chodesh).


tree of life

Coordinate term: tree of knowledge

(biblical) A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.

(Judaism) The central mystical symbol used in the Kabballah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the ten sephiroth.


rose of Sharon

(biblical) A flower of uncertain kind: perhaps Pancratium maritimum, which grows on the Sharon Plain of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.


chavrusa

en-noun

chavrusa (countable and uncountable, plural chavrusas)

chavrusas (plural)
chavruta (alternative)
havrusa (alternative)
havruta (alternative)

From the Ashkenazic pronunciation of Hebrew חברותא (khavrúta), from Aramaic חברותא (ħavrutaʔ).

A bachur who takes arguments personally will very quickly find himself without a chavrusa.

2001 June 30, toichen, “How long would you last in yeshiva?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism, countable) A pair, typically yeshiva students, who study Talmud and other topics in Judaism together; by extension, any working pair

חַבְרוּתָא

a pair who study topics in Judaism together

(Judaism, uncountable) The system of studying in this manner.

חַבְרוּתָא

the system of studying Judaism with a partner


anti-Jewishness

Quality or state of being anti-Jewish; anti-Semitism.


halakhist

A Jewish person who strictly adheres to halakhic and Talmudic laws.


Gehinnom

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (gēhīnnōm). Doublet of Gehenna and Jahannam.

bor+

Gehenom (alternative)
Gehennom (alternative)
Gehinom (alternative)
Jehanum (alternative)

(Judaism) The realm of the afterlife where unrepentant souls are cleansed of their spiritual impurities before returning to the presence of God.


High Holidays

(Judaism) Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, collectively.


melamed

Borrowed from Hebrew מְלַמֶד (“teacher”).

(historical, Judaism) A religious teacher or instructor in general, especially in the Talmudic period.


shpitzel

A partial wig that reveals the wearer's hair only at the front, worn by some married Hasidic women.


tzeniut

Hebrew צניעות, literally "modesty" or "privacy".

uder

Hebrew צניעות

tsnius (alternative)
tzenius (alternative)
tzniut (alternative)
tznius (alternative)

(Jewish law) Standards of modesty in dress and conduct, especially between the sexes.


Hashanot

(Judaism) Prayers chanted during the festival of Sukkot.


Aaronid

From Medieval Latin Aaronida under influence from French aaronide, from Koine Greek Αἀρωνίδης (Aarōnídēs) in the Septuagint. Equivalent to Aaron + -id.