Cry (To)

"to cry, cry out, call." Found in both biblical and modern Hebrew, this word has the sense of "to shout, yell." The word is a close parallel to the ve…

Distress

"distress; straits." The 70 appearances of sarâ occur in all periods of biblical literature, although most occurrences are in poetry (poetical, prophe…

Enemy

"enemy." ’Oyeb has an Ugaritic cognate. It appears about 282 times in biblical Hebrew and in all periods. In form, the word is an active infinitive (o…

Overlay (To)

"to overlay, spy, keep watch." This word is found in both biblical and modern Hebrew, and some scholars suggest that it exists in Ugaritic. Sapâ is fo…

Spy

"to overlay, spy, keep watch." This word is found in both biblical and modern Hebrew, and some scholars suggest that it exists in Ugaritic. S?apâ is f…

Stone

"stone." A comparison of Semitic languages shows that ’eben was the common word for "stone" among the ancients. Exact philological and semantic cognat…

Test (To)

"to refine, try, smelt, test." This root with the basic meaning of smelting and refining is found outside the Old Testament in Akkadian, Phoenician, a…