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Hagberry — Hag ber ry (h[a^]g b[e^]r r[y^]), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Prunus} ({Prunus Padus}); the bird cherry. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prunus Padus — Hagberry Hag ber ry (h[a^]g b[e^]r r[y^]), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Prunus} ({Prunus Padus}); the bird cherry. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hebrew astronomy — refers to any astronomy written in Hebrew or by Hebrew speakers, or translated into Hebrew. It also includes an unusual type of literature from the Middle Ages: works written in Arabic but transcribed in the Hebrew alphabet. It includes a range… … Wikipedia
a — acar·a·pis; ac·a·ri·a·sis; ac·a·ri·a·sis; ac·a·ri·na; ac·a·ri·nar·i·um; ac·a·rine; ac·a·ri·nol·o·gy; ac·a·ri·no·sis; ac·a·ro·ce·cid·i·um; ac·a·roid; ac·a·rol·o·gist; ac·a·rol·o·gy; ac·a·ro·pho·bia; ac·a·rus; acat·a·lep·sy; acat·a·lex·is;… … English syllables
Simon ben Zoma — or simply Ben Zoma (Hebrew: בן זומא) was a Tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name is Simon ben Zoma without the title Rabbi , for, like Ben Azzai, he remained in the grade of pupil, and is often mentioned together with Ben… … Wikipedia
BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI — BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI, two schools of exposition of the Oral Law, named after hillel and shammai who lived at the end of the first century B.C.E. and the beginning of the first century C.E. These two schools existed from the time of these… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SIMEON BEN SHETAḤ — (first century B.C.E.), one of the most prominent of the scholars of the Second Temple period. He was active during the reign of alexander yannai and queen salome alexandra (Sifra, Beḥukotai, ch. 1), who according to certain late aggadic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BEN ZOMA, SIMEON — (second century), tanna. A contemporary of akiva , he appears to have studied under joshua b. hananiah (Naz. 8:1, and cf. Tos. Ḥag. 2:6). The Mishnah says that he was the last of the authoritative biblical expositors (Sot. 9:15). According to… … Encyclopedia of Judaism