INDEX

 

 

 

 

Aaron

Abel

Abimelech

Abraham (Abram)

Achan

Addad-nerar I

Adam

adjectives, degrees of comparative

positive

superlative

Adonai

affect, as level of translation

age and status

status

behavior

young men and women

See also

Ahab

Ahasuerus, King

Ahaz

alam

All the President’s Men (Woodward/Bernstein)

alliteration

alma

See also

Amos

Amoz

apple, in Garden of Eden

Arabic

Aramaic

Aristeas, letter of

Aristotle

Artaxerxes

Arthur, King

As You Like It (Shakespeare)

Assyrians

 

Baal

Baalzebub

Babylonian system of mathematics

Babylonian Talmud

baheret

Balaam

Balak

barns, burning

Beersheba

Ben-Gurion, David

Bethel

Bethuel

Bezalel

Bible, as a bestselling book

Bible (versions of)

American Standard Version (ASV)

Jewish Study Bible

King James Version

New American Bible

New International Version

New Living Translation

New Revised Standard Version

Revised Standard

Bildad

breath

brides

broken telephone (game)

b’tulah

See also

Burns, Robert

Burnstein, Carl

 

cahmad

Cain

Calvin, John

Carmi

cherubs

chiasmus parallel structure

childbirth

Chomsky, Noam

Cochran, Johnnie

Code of Hammurabi

cognate languages

color words

blue/light blue

green/light green

red/light red/pink

white

Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)

commentary, religious 27–30

Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (Esquivel)

concepts, as level of translation

concordance

covet.See

 

dactylic hexameter

dactylic tetrameter

Darius

David, King

Dead Sea Scrolls

Dinah

Dragons of Eden, The (Sagan)

dunamis

 

Edom

Eleazar

elef

Elijah

Elisha

Elizabeth II of Britain, Queen

Ephraim

eretz

Esau

Esquivel, Laura

Esther

etymology

Eve

Everything Is Illuminated (Foer)

Evilmerodach

express bus/local bus

extensions, of word meanings

two kinds of

Ezekiel

Ezra

 

Ferguson, Miriam Amanda “Ma,”

Five Books of Moses

Five Books of Moses, The (Fox)

Foer, Jonathan Safran

Fox, Everett

 

Gilgal

Gog

Golding, William

Gomorrah

Greek

thought

translation of the Bible, See.

 

Hagar

Hammurabi, Code of

hara

Haran

Hay, Ian

heart and soul

heart

soul

Hebrew (Biblical)

Biblical Hebrew

Early Biblical Hebrew

last spoken

Late Biblical Hebrew

Hebrew (modern)

Hebrew (writing in English)

blind idiots

foreign languages

translations

Hebrew (writing in English: levels)

dialects of

history of

missing words

Modern Israeli

possessive nouns

possessive pronouns

root system 23–27

and subject (grammar)

Hebrew roots

Hezekiah

Hofstadter, Douglas

Homer

homonyms

horse

Hosea

host

Housemaster (Hay)

 

Iacocca, Lee

iambic pentameter

ice-cream truck/fire truck

idioms

Immanuel

“in the beginning,” 64–65

In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language (Hoffman)

internal word structure

Ionesco, Eugène

Isaac

Isaiah

Ishmaelites

Israeli Hebrew.See

 

Jacob

James I, King, of England

Jehoiachin

Jehoram

Jehoshaphat

Jeremiah

Jericho

Jeroboam

Jerusalem

Jesus

Jewish Publication Society

Jewish Study Bible

Jezreel

Job

Jordan

Joseph (son of Jacob)

Josephus

Joshua

Jotham

Judah

 

Kabbalah

Kennedy, John F.

killing

legal and illegal

See also

kings, -29

in the Bible

and dragons

medieval

modern

Klingon language

 

Laban

Leah

leimor

Leningrad Codex

levav

life spans, Biblical

life expectancy

life and death

verb for “cause to die,”

verb for “kill,”

legal and illegal killing

verb for “strike,”

“lift up [your] head,”

Lo-Ami

Lo-Ruhama

“Lord of the Flies,” (Golding)

Lot

Luther, Martin

Luther, Bible and

 

McKinley, William

Magog

Mandelkorn, Shlomo

Manoah

Manoah’s wife

Mardochaeus

Mary

Masoretes

melechs

Metamagical Themas (Hofstadter)

metonymy

Micronesia, as example of president’s role

Midian

Midianites

Miriam

missing words

bracketing

italicizing

Mitterrand, François

Mordecai

morphology

Moses

murder.See

 

Naaman

na’ar

na’arah

See also

Naboth

nefesh (nephash)

Nixon, Richard

Noah

Noah’s ark

numbers (mathematical)

 

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)

Okrand, Marc

orthography

Othello (Shakespeare)

Ovid

 

parallel structure

chiasmus

simple

parthenos

Passover

patents

Perlis, Alan J.

Pharaoh

Pharaoh’s daughter

Phinehas

phonology

phrases, as level of translation

Pius XII, Pope

pleonastic subject

poetry

alliteration

dactylic hexameter

dactylic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

parallel structure

rhyming

translation of

Potiphar

priest of Midian

primary colors

Proechel, Glen

Ptolemy II

Pushkin, Alexander

Putnam, Hilary

 

questions

Quran

 

Rebekah

register

Renan, Ernest

rhyming

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)

Roosevelt, Franklin

Roosevelt, Theodore

rozen

rule of thumb

 

Sabbath

sacrifice, animal

Sagan, Carl

Samuel

Sarah (Sarai)

Schoen, Lawrence M.

Second Temple, destruction of

Septuagint

Sesame Street (TV show)

Seth

Shakespeare, William

shalt

Shechem

shepherds

in America

in the Bible

“my shepherd,”

Shushan

Simpson, O. J., court trial of

Sirach, book of, 49:10

sisters

snake

Sodom

Solomon

Solomon (Rashi)

sombrero

Sonnet 78 (Shakespeare)

soul.See

sounds as level of translation

Star Trek (series)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (film)

stationary booths

stealing.See

Steinbeck, John

strike, as translation for hikah

subject (grammar)

synonyms in parallel

syntax

and register

as substitute, for determiner

in Genesis 1:1

Syria

Taberah

Tabernacle

Talmud

Tamar

Taylor, Kenneth

teenagers

Ten Commandments

American law compared to

Catholics and

Code of Hammurabi and

Hebrew word for

Jews and

life and death

New York State law compared to

Protestants and

shalt

“Thou shalt not kill,”

wanting and taking

Terah

theft.See

Tiberias

Tolstoy, Leo

Tracer, David

translation (levels)

affect

concepts

example

phrases

poetry

register

sounds

words

tree of knowledge

tree of the field

Tutankhamun

Twain, Mark

 

Uzziah

 

virgin birth

virgins (and young people)

age and status

Biblical life spans

German words for, the Luther Bible

Greek words for

Hebrew words for

teenagers

young men and women

Von Count, Count (fictitious character)

 

Wall Street Journal

wanting and taking

War and Peace (Tolstoy)

Wilson, Kevin

Wonder Woman (TV series)

Woodward, Bob

word combinations

words, as level of translation

words in context

words misunderstood

cognate languages

commentary

etymology

Hebrew roots

internal word structure

words side by side

 

“You Are My Sunshine” (song)

youth

in general

teenagers

“the” youth

See also

 

Zechariah

Zilpah

Zipporah