Foolishness

"foolishness; stupidity." This noun appears 25 times in the Old Testament. It can mean "foolishness" in the sense of violating God's law, or "sin" (Ps…

Gold

"gold." This word has cognates in Arabic and Aramaic. It occurs about 385 times in biblical Hebrew and in every period. Zahab can refer to "gold ore,"…

Iniquity

"to do iniquity." This verb appears in the Bible 17 times. In Arabic this verb appears with the meaning "to bend" or "to deviate from the way." ‘Awâ i…

Kill (To)

"to slaughter, kill." This word is common to both ancient and modern Hebrew, as well as ancient Ugaritic. The idea that the ancient Akkadian term shah…

Mountain Range

"mountain range; mountainous region; mount." This word also appears in Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Punic. Biblical Hebrew attests it about 558 times and…

Sacrifice

"sacrifice." This root with the meaning "to sacrifice" is represented in other Semitic languages: Akkadian, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, and Arabic.…

Sin

"iniquity; vanity; sorrow." Some scholars believe that this term has cognates in the Arabic words 'ana, ("to be fatigued, tired") and 'aynun ("weaknes…

Slaughter (To)

"to slaughter, sacrifice." This word is a common Semitic term for sacrifice in general, although there are a number of other terms used in the Old Tes…

Turn (To)

"to turn, overturn, change, transform, turn back." A common word throughout the various periods of Hebrew, this term occurs in other Semitic languages…