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Moriah, the Glossary

Moriah (Hebrew:, Mōrīyya; Arabic: ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, Marwah) is the name given to a mountainous region in the Book of Genesis, where the binding of Isaac by Abraham is said to have taken place.^[1]

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Abraham

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Moriah and Abraham are Vayeira.

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Amorites

The Amorites (author-link, Pl. XXVIII e+i|MAR.TU; Amurrūm or Tidnum Tidnum; ʾĔmōrī; Ἀμορραῖοι) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant.

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Apheresis (linguistics)

In phonetics and phonology, apheresis (aphaeresis) is a sound change in which a word-initial vowel is lost, e.g., American > 'Merican.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Araunah (Hebrew: ʾǍrawnā) was a Jebusite mentioned in the Second Book of Samuel, who owned the threshing floor on Mount Moriah which David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to God.

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Binding of Isaac

The Binding of Isaac (עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק|ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaqlabel. Moriah and Binding of Isaac are Abraham, Isaac, mount Gerizim, Temple Mount and Vayeira.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Books of Chronicles

The Book of Chronicles (דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים, "words of the days") is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament.

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, better known as Easton's Bible Dictionary, is a reference work on topics related to the Christian Bible, compiled by Matthew George Easton.

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Givat HaMoreh

Givat HaMoreh (גבעת המוֹרֶה, Jebel ed-Dahi) is a hill in northern Israel on the northeast side of the Jezreel Valley. Moriah and Givat HaMoreh are Hebrew Bible mountains.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Incense

Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.

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Isaac

Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Moriah and Isaac are Vayeira.

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Ishmael in Islam

Ishmael (ʾIsmāʿīl) is regarded as a prophet and the ancestor to the Ishmaelites in Islam.

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Jerome

Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit. Moriah and Judaism are Abraham.

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Kaaba

The Kaaba, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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Koine Greek

Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Melchizedek

In the Bible, Melchizedek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק|translit. Moriah and Melchizedek are Abraham and mount Gerizim.

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Mount Gerizim

Mount Gerizim (Samaritan Hebrew: ʾĀ̊rgā̊rīzem; Hebrew: Har Gərīzīm; جَبَل جَرِزِيمJabal Jarizīm or جَبَلُ ٱلطُّورِ Jabal at-Ṭūr) is one of two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem. Moriah and mount Gerizim are Hebrew Bible mountains and sacred mountains of the Middle East.

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Mount Zion

Mount Zion (הַר צִיּוֹן, Har Ṣīyyōn; جبل صهيون, Jabal Sahyoun) is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City. Moriah and Mount Zion are Hebrew Bible mountains and sacred mountains of the Middle East.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Myrrh

Myrrh (from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted from a few small, thorny tree species of the Commiphora genus, belonging to the Burseraceae family.

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Nablus

Nablus (Nāblus; Šəḵem, ISO 259-3:,; Samaritan Hebrew: script, romanized:; Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 156,906.

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Peake's Commentary on the Bible is a one-volume commentary on the Bible, first published in 1919.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Rabbinic literature

Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history.

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Safa and Marwa

Safa and Marwa (ٱلصَّفَا وَٱلْمَرْوَة|Aṣ-Ṣafā wal-Marwah) are two small hills, connected to the larger Abu Qubais and Qaiqan mountains, respectively, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, now made part of Al-Masjid al-Haram.

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Salem (Bible)

Salem (שָׁלֵם, Shalem; Σαλήμ, Salḗm) is an ancient Middle Eastern town mentioned in the Bible.

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Samaritan Pentateuch

The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: ‮ࠕࠦ‎‎‬ࠅࠓࠡࠄ), is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans.

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Samaritans

The Samaritans (שומרונים; السامريون), often prefering to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East.

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Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Middle Aramaic סַנְהֶדְרִין, a loanword from synedrion, 'assembly,' 'sitting together,' hence 'assembly' or 'council') was a legislative and judicial assembly of either 23 or 71 elders, existing at both a local and central level in the ancient Land of Israel.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.

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Solomon's Temple

Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE. Moriah and Solomon's Temple are Tabernacle and Temples in Jerusalem.

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Symmachus (translator)

Symmachus (Σύμμαχος "ally"; fl. late 2nd century) was a writer who translated the Old Testament into Greek.

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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (also known as the Jerusalem Targum, Targum Yerushalmi, or Targum Jonathan) is an Aramaic translation and interpretation (targum) of the Torah (Pentateuch) traditionally thought to have originated from the land of Israel, although more recently a provenance in 12th-century Italy has been proposed.

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Temple Mount

The Temple Mount (lit), also known as Haram al-Sharif (Arabic: الحرمالشريف, lit. 'The Noble Sanctuary'), al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or simply al-Aqsa (المسجد الأقصى, al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, lit. 'The Furthest Mosque'),* Where Heaven and Earth Meet, p. 13: "Nowadays, while oral usage of the term Haram persists, Palestinians tend to use in formal texts the name Masjid al-Aqsa, habitually rendered into English as 'the Aqsa Mosque'.". Moriah and Temple Mount are Hebrew Bible mountains, sacred mountains of the Middle East and Tabernacle and Temples in Jerusalem.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.

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West Bank

The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriah

Also known as Land of vision, Terra visionis.

Moriah, the Glossary

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See also

Abraham

Hebrew Bible mountains

Isaac

Mount Gerizim

Sacred mountains of the Middle East

Vayeira

References