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Genesis 7

…a man and his wife," the garden's own vocabulary (2:23–25) applied to the animals filing aboard. Shiv…

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Genesis 2

…consecrate" — the root that will define Israel's entire vocabulary of holiness (holy priests, a holy nation, the Sabbath itself…

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Genesis 3

…Desire, temptation, and the language of covetousness are the same Hebrew word from the very first sin onward — the vocabulary…

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Deuteronomy 30

…A chapter about Israel's return is built, at the level of its own vocabulary, out of the word for…

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Balaam — Encyclopedia

…Torah's own retelling, in two verses and a vocabulary Numbers never used: Balaam was hired to curse — qalal, the…

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to'evah — Dictionary

…rather than singling any one item out with harsher vocabulary. ⭐ Deuteronomy 14:3 puts it to a third use, and…

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Genesis 21

…Note, too, the vocabulary shift: chapter 16's shifchah (slave-girl) has hardened into amah (slave-woman) — the household's…

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Genesis 26

…and my laws." That last line is remarkable — the vocabulary of the Torah (mitzvot, chuqqim, torot) laid on Abraham centuries…

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qahal — Dictionary

…On the Greek Old Testament's vocabulary, where qahal is regularly rendered ekklēsia, that is the first congregation there is…

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cherem — Dictionary

…The vocabulary is identical to 7:2's command against the nations of the land — nothing is said about the…