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• Baal

  Baal is a Hebrew word meaning "lord" or "master." In the Old Testament it refers to the god whom the Canaanites worshiped as a deity of rain and fertility. The name appears in Judges, Kings, and the prophetic books as the epitome of the idolatry into which Israel repeatedly fell.

• Jezreel

  Jezreel is a Hebrew place name meaning "God sows." It refers to a city in the northern kingdom of Israel and to the broad valley around it. The city held a royal palace of the house of Ahab and was the setting of the revolt led by Jehu. Jezreel is also the name of a son of the prophet Hosea.

• Meribah

  Meribah is a Hebrew place name meaning "strife." It refers to the place where the Israelites in the wilderness quarreled with Moses because they had no water, and where God brought water out of a rock. It appears in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• El Elyon

  El Elyon is a Hebrew title for God meaning "God Most High." It first appears in Genesis 14 as the name of the God whom Melchizedek served.

• Hallel

  Hallel is a Hebrew word meaning "praise." It refers to groups of praise psalms sung together at Jewish festivals, particularly Psalms 113–118.

• Shibboleth

  Shibboleth is the Hebrew word that, according to Judges 12, the Gileadites required people to pronounce at the fords of the Jordan in order to identify Ephraimites. The Ephraimites pronounced it "Sibboleth" and thereby revealed who they were.

• Devoted Thing

  "Devoted thing" translates the Hebrew word herem and refers to an object or person wholly dedicated to God, which therefore can no longer be put to private use or redeemed. The term is best known from the account of Achan in Joshua 7.

• Rabbi

  Rabbi is a Hebrew and Aramaic title of respect meaning "my teacher." In the New Testament Gospels, disciples and others use it to address Jesus and John the Baptist.

• Arabah

  Arabah is a Hebrew place name meaning "dry land" or "plain." In the Bible it refers to the long lowland that runs south from the Sea of Galilee through the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.

• Corban

  Corban is a Hebrew word meaning "an offering given to God." In the New Testament it appears in Mark 7:11, in a passage where Jesus criticizes the practice of using a vow to avoid supporting one's parents.

• Wave Offering

  The wave offering (Hebrew tenufah) was a rite of Old Testament worship in which an offering was presented to the LORD by being waved before Him. The breast of the peace offering, the sheaf of firstfruits, and the two loaves of the Feast of Weeks were among the offerings presented in this way.

• Ramah

  Ramah is a Hebrew place name meaning "high place." In the Bible it most often refers to a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem. It became widely known through Matthew 2:18, which quotes Jeremiah 31:15: "In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping."

• Azazel

  Azazel is a Hebrew word that appears in the Day of Atonement regulations of Leviticus 16 in connection with the goat that bears the people's sins and is sent away into the wilderness. Because its meaning is uncertain, it has been interpreted in several ways.

• Succoth

  Succoth is a Hebrew place name meaning "booths." In the Old Testament it refers both to a town east of the Jordan River and to the place in Egypt that Israel first reached after setting out from Rameses at the Exodus.

• Jehovah-shammah

  Jehovah-shammah is a Hebrew name meaning "the LORD is there," given to the restored city in Ezekiel 48:35.

• Tamar

  Tamar is a Hebrew name meaning "palm tree." It refers chiefly to the woman in Genesis 38 who bore Perez and Zerah to her father-in-law Judah and whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Maschil

  Maschil is a Hebrew word that appears in the superscriptions (headings) of thirteen psalms. It derives from a root meaning "to understand" or "to be wise." It appears to designate a type of poem or a manner of singing, but its precise meaning is uncertain.

• Broom Tree

  The broom tree (Hebrew rotem) is a leguminous shrub that grows in arid regions such as the Sinai wilderness and the Negev. In the Bible it is best known as the place where Elijah, fleeing from Jezebel, asked to die and was then given food by an angel.

• Unleavened Bread

  Unleavened bread (Hebrew matzah) is flat bread baked without leaven. In the Bible it was eaten at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in commemoration of the Exodus, and it was also used as a sacrificial offering.

• Herem

  Herem is a Hebrew term for the irrevocable devotion of a person or thing to God, which removes it from human use, or for the thing so devoted. In the accounts of the conquest of Canaan, it is also rendered "utter destruction."