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Tohu wa-bohu or Tohu va-Vohu ( Biblical Hebrew: תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ ṯōhū wāḇōhū) is a Biblical Hebrew phrase found in the Genesis creation narrative ( Genesis 1:2) that describes the condition of the earth ( 'aretz) immediately before the creation of light in Genesis 1:3 . Numerous interpretations of this phrase are made by ...
Book of Genesis. The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ).
Bereshit (parashah) Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereshis, Bereishis, or B'reshith ( בְּרֵאשִׁית — Hebrew for "in beginning" or " in the beginning ," the first word in the parashah) is the first weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. The parashah consists of Genesis 1:1–6:8.
The only Hebrew word traditionally translated "soul" ( nephesh) in English-language Bibles refers to a living, breathing conscious body, rather than to an immortal soul. [4] In the New Testament, the Greek word traditionally translated "soul" ( ψυχή) "psyche", has substantially the same meaning as the Hebrew, without reference to an ...
In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized : ʿêṣ had-daʿaṯ ṭōḇ wā-rāʿ, [ʕesˤ hadaʕaθ tˤov wɔrɔʕ]; Latin: Lignum scientiae boni et mali) is one of two specific trees in the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2–3 ...
DH: Deuteronomistic history (books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings) The Jahwist, or Yahwist, often abbreviated J, is one of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch ( Torah ), together with the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source and the Elohist. The existence of the Jahwist text is somewhat controversial, with a number of scholars ...
The first chapter of Bereshit, or Genesis, written on an egg, in the Jerusalem museum. "In the beginning" ( bereshit in Biblical Hebrew) is the opening-phrase or incipit used in the Bible in Genesis 1:1. In John 1:1 of the New Testament, the word Archē is translated into English with the same phrase.
Tehom ( Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep” or “abyss” (literally “the deeps”). [ 1] It is used to describe the primeval ocean and the post- creation waters of the earth. It is a cognate of the Akkadian words tiāmtum and tâmtum as well as Ugaritic t-h-m which have ...