Cleave (To) 2

"to cling, cleave, keep close." Used in modern Hebrew in the sense of "to stick to, adhere to," dabaq yields the noun form for "glue" and also the mor…

Cling

"to cling, cleave, keep close." Used in modern Hebrew in the sense of "to stick to, adhere to," dabaq yields the noun form for "glue" and also the mor…

Dwell

"to dwell as a client, sojourn." This verb occurs only in Northwest Semitic and outside Hebrew only as a noun. In biblical Hebrew the verb gûr occurs …

Love (To)

"to love; like." This verb occurs in Moabite and Ugaritic. It appears in all periods of Hebrew and around 250 times in the Bible.Basically this verb i…

Pestilence

"pestilence." The meaning of the cognate word varies in other Semitic languages from the Hebrew. In Ugaritic, dbr probably signifies "death." The Arab…

Sojourn (To)

"to dwell as a client, sojourn." This verb occurs only in Northwest Semitic and outside Hebrew only as a noun. In biblical Hebrew the verb gûr occurs …

Speak (To)

"to speak, say." This verb occurs in all periods of Hebrew, in Phoenician (starting from around 900 b.c.), and in imperial Aramaic (starting from abou…

Suburbs

"suburbs; pasture land; open land." This noun occurs about 100 times, mainly in Joshua an First Chronicles. It denotes the untilled ground outside a c…

Tent

"tent; home; dwelling; habitation." Cognates of this word appear in Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Arabic. It appears about 343 times in biblical Hebrew an…