Word origins

• orConnects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
• getTo obtain; to acquire.
• lotA large quantity or number; a great deal.
• increase(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
• bathA tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
• danA title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
• abAn abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
• ramA male sheep, typically uncastrated.
• cottonA soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
• sinA violation of divine will or religious law.
• grossRemarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
• kenTo give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
• ranYarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
• betA wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
• avhave
• jonathanAn apple cultivar from New York.
• JessicaA female given name from Hebrew.
• aiA pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil.
• peThe seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
• IsraeliA person from Israel or of Israeli descent.
• JoelA male given name from Hebrew.
• salmonOne of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
• cabA compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
• ruthSorrow for the misery of another person; compassion, mercy, pity.
• aviSynonym of avatar.
• DannyA diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
• RebeccaOne who protested in the Rebecca Riots; a Rebeccaite.
• hamThe region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
• cohenA Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.
• uriA canton of Switzerland.
• yaleA mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goatlike four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
• DeborahA judge of Israel.
• HyattA surname.
• JudithA female given name from Hebrew.
• HannahA Wren serving with the Royal Marines.
• EliA student at Yale University.
• gerA yurt.
• carmelA mountain range in Israel.
• ziffA beard.
• JudeThe second last book of the New Testament of the Bible.
• PerezThe father of Hezron and the son of Judah; the grandson of Jacob.
• TorahA specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services.
• zionzayin, Hebrew letter ז.
• NaomiThe mother-in-law of the Biblical figure Ruth.
• KatzA surname; variant form Kats.
• britA British person.
• bethelA holy place.
• TalA male given name from Hebrew.
• JonahA person who brings a ship bad luck.
• cainThe son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel.
• LeahThe elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.
• HannaA female given name from Hebrew, variant of Hannah.
• tanyaA diminutive of the female given names Tatiana (from Russian) and Tetyana (from Ukrainian).
• MiriamThe sister of Moses and Aaron and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed.
• MicahA book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
• ElijahAn Israelite prophet in the Abrahamic religions.
• maraA nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
• abigailA lady's maid.
• EdnaA female given name from Hebrew.
• imaI'm.
• seraA language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
• HassanA male given name from Arabic.
• passoverThe one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib or Nisan 14), during which the firstborn sons of the Israelites were passed over by God while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or yearly Sabbaths).
• chaiA female Romani.
• RubenA male given name from Hebrew, variant of Reuben.
• tartanWoven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
• NehemiahA governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
• mitzvahAny of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.
• ZacharyA male given name from Hebrew.
• shivaA weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
• micaAny of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
• luzA small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
• uzInitials of Ukrainian Railways or Ukrzaliznytsia.
• ReubenA grilled or toasted sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and either Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing.
• ZechariahA king of Israel mentioned in the second book of Kings.
• NagarA surname of Indian usage.
• GoshenA land of light and plenty.
• GIDEONA member of Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association, founded in 1899, that distributes free copies of the Bible.
• HanukkahAn eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.
• shalomA traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
• DinaA female given name from Hebrew.
• NahumA book of the Tanakh / the Old Testament of the Bible.
• yahYes.
• ObadiahA book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.
• asherA member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.
• HaggaiA book of the Old Testament of the Bible and the Tanakh.
• ZephaniahA book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
• goliathAny large person or thing; someone or something that is abnormally large or powerful.
• SegalA surname from Hebrew.
• shabbatThe Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis.
• MichalA daughter of Saul and wife of David in the Old Testament.
• MLKSynonym of Moloch, a Canaanite god.
• agoraA place for gathering.
• lodA city in Israel.
• shekelA currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
• moserAn informer; one who tells on another.
• horaA circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
• JahA shortened form of the Tetragrammaton.
• GraElijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer, the Vilna Gaon.
• NoamA male given name from Hebrew.