Ascend

"to go up, ascend, offer up." This word occurs in all Semitic languages, including biblical Hebrew. The Old Testament attests it about 890 times.Basic…

Bread

"bread; meal; food; fruit." This word has cognates in Ugaritic, Syriac, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Arabic. Lehem occurs about 297 times and at every per…

Come up (To)

"to go up, ascend, offer up." This word occurs in all Semitic languages, including biblical Hebrew. The Old Testament attests it about 890 times.Basic…

Commandment

"commandment." This noun occurs 181 times in the Old Testament. Its first occurrence is in Gen 26:5, where miswâ is synonymous with hoq ("statute") an…

Find (To)

"to find, meet, get." This word is found in every branch of the Semitic languages (including biblical Aramaic) and in all periods. It is attested both…

Pillar

"pillar." This word appears 22 times and only once outside Ezek. 40-41: "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel [p…

Trespass (To)

"to trespass, act unfaithfully." This verb is not very common in Hebrew, biblical or rabbinic. It occurs 35 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, particu…

Work (To)

"to do, work." Common to both ancient and modern Hebrew, this word is used in modern Hebrew in the sense of "to work, to act, to function." Found only…