Word origins

• avelTo pull away.
• ElianaA female given name from Hebrew
• ivryA surname from Hebrew.
• olimA surname from Portuguese of Flemish origin.
• barkanA surname from Hebrew.
• AzazelA fallen angel in some traditions of Judaism and Christianity.
• KeziahA female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.
• KinneretThe Sea of Galilee.
• yizkorAn Ashkenazi memorial prayer service for the dead.
• KotelThe Western Wall.
• AbijahKing of Judah after Rehoboam, the first to begin reign over Judah only; the father of Asa
• MizrachiA surname from Hebrew. (Etymology 1)
• kollelAn institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.
• ShevatThe fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tevet and before Adar.
• JerushaA female given name from Hebrew.
• ChavaA female given name from Hebrew.
• chesedThe Jewish attribute of grace, kindness or love; one of the sephiroth
• HuldahA prophetess in the Old Testament.
• ruachOne of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to emotion and morality.
• kippahThe cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.
• HavdalahThe Jewish ceremony, involving a candle, wine and spices, that concludes the Sabbath or other holy days.
• AwanThe daughter of Adam and Eve in the Book of Jubilees.
• ShushanA surname.
• AmoraAny of the Jewish scholars of about 200 to 500 CE who orally transmitted the teachings of the Mishna.
• nefeshOne of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to natural instinct.
• AhasuerusA king of Persia, later identified with Xerxes.
• TishreiThe first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Elul and before Cheshvan.
• pasukA verse of the Torah
• chametzFood products made from leavened grain flour, which may not be consumed on Passover.
• Terahthe father of Abraham
• JezreelAn ancient Israelite city, located on a hill overlooking the southern edge of a valley of the same name.
• migdalA fortified tower built in biblical times.
• shamashThe candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah or hanukkiah.
• moshavAn Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.
• JedidiahA name of King Solomon.
• MinchaThe afternoon prayer service.
• heterSpecial permission from a rabbi to break a commandment.
• gadolAn eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp. of the past.
• GilgalThe site of Joshua's encampment before the siege of Jericho.
• TirzahA daughter of Zelophehad.
• nahalSynonym of wadi.
• AshkenazA medieval region of Central Europe, centered on the Rhineland, in modern Germany.
• ElkanahAny of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Samuel.
• IyarThe eighth month of the civil year and the second month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Nisan and before Sivan.
• YerushalmiOf Jerusalem.
• ShalevA male given name from Hebrew.
• IrgunA Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948.
• mikvehA ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.
• mohelThe person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.
• karetA severe punishment prescribed for certain offenses, interpreted variously as expulsion or extinction of the soul.
• HarediA member of a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
• AsenathAn Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph, son of Jacob, to be his wife, and who bore him two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
• MaozA surname from Hebrew.
• BacharA surname.
• yardenAn area which is both a yard and a garden.
• AgagA Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king, possibly a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek.
• Ivritthe Hebrew language, especially Modern Hebrew
• JehoiadaA prominent priest during the reigns of Ahaziah, Athaliah, and Joash. He became the brother-in-law of King Ahaziah and opposed the worship of Baal.
• KayinA member of a number of Karenic ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar (Burma).
• ulpanAn Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants.
• ShinarThe southern region of Mesopotamia.
• TimnathA statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
• LachishAn ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in the Shephelah region of Israel, now an archeological site and national park.
• AbednegoAzariah, one of the captives in the Bible who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.
• milahThe first step in the bris, where the akroposthion is excised (later followed by periah, then posthetomy, then metzitza).
• SderotA city in southern Israel.
• AdrielA male given name from Hebrew.
• AharoniA surname from Hebrew.
• JeshurunThe Israelites, taken collectively.
• ShulamitA female given name from Hebrew, variant of Shulamith, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome.
• CheshvanThe second month of the civil year and the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tishrei and before Kislev.
• KeturahKeturah, the second wife of Abraham.
• LivniA surname from Hebrew.
• yetzerA desire or impulse.
• LashaBiblical location, appearing only once in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (10:19) describing one of the limits of the area covered by the Canaanites, believed to be on the east bank of the Dead Sea, later named Callirrhoe (location of hot springs mentioned by Josephus and other authors in the first centuries AD).
• ElielAny of a number of minor characters in the Old Testament.
• ephahA former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).
• HistadrutIsrael's national trade union centre, representing the majority of trade unionists in the State of Israel.
• BetarAn ancient Jewish village, destroyed after the Bar Kokhba revolt. Now the site of the Palestinian village of Battir.
• lulavA festive bouquet of willow, myrtle and a closed date palm frond, used in Jewish ritual on Sukkot.
• RamlaA city in Israel.
• KaraiteAn adherent of Karaism.
• niddahSomeone whom Halacha considers menstruant.
• emunahfaith, sincere belief, conviction.
• AbibThe first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
• ZerahThe son of Judah and Tamar, brother of Perez, ancestor of Achan
• terumahheave offering
• HyamA male given name from Hebrew.
• chuppahThe canopy over a Jewish couple during their marriage ceremony.
• HananiaA surname from Hebrew.
• JasherAn unknown book mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible.
• shacharitThe daily morning prayer.
• vaadA Hebrew council.
• shukAn Israeli street market.
• shomerA male who watches over the body of a deceased person in the ritual of shemira.
• sotahAn ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
• PninaA female given name.
• halutzA pioneer, especially one of the early Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
• AbdonThe tenth judge of Israel. (biblical character)
• MerkavaA tank developed and used by the Israeli Defense Forces.