Mon 26 Sep, 2016 02:16 am - אַדִּירָה
Alef Dalet Yod Resh Hei
Meaning: "She who is strong"
Related to "Adir" - often used to describe God, as in the old Passover song "Adir Hu." (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 02:13 am - "Hannah" means "she who is graceful"
It's unclear what Miriam originally meant. In Hebrew it would translate to "bitter sea" (and she did stand by the bitter... (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 02:11 am - The name "Annemarie" is French in origin, but the two sections come from Latin:
Anna Maria.
Those two words originate with the Hebrew names for Hannah and Miriam, after passing through... (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 02:07 am - Basically "Shoel." The accent is on the O, and the E is more of a schwa (like the A in "about"). And the underword in Hebrew is "Sh'ol," and in Yiddish would be... (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 01:58 am - Don't use בנ!
The nickname "Ben," along with any word that ends with a "N" sound, HAS to be spelled with a NUN SOFIT, the form of the letter for the end of words.
בן
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Mon 26 Sep, 2016 01:55 am - So it's a geographical-historical atlas of Eretz Yisrael.
Some research says it was edited by the late great scholar Dr. Michael Avi-Yonah in 1955.
He has a Wikipedia page if you want... (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 01:48 am - Signature (in sloppy Hebrew cursive - harder to decipher)
(On the top)
!ליונתן ליפמן
Transliteration: "l'Yonatan Lipman!"
meaning: to Jonathan Lipman
(Below... (view)
Mon 26 Sep, 2016 01:14 am - Does anybody know the origin of the phrase "It seems the hunter has become the hunted?" There was a National Geographic TV show named after it, a TVTropes page for the trope, etc.... (view)
