Word origins

• malawachA food made from fried layers of puff pastry, a staple of the Yemenite Jews.
• maqafThe Hebrew script hyphen (־)
• marorA bitter vegetable, such as horseradish or Romaine lettuce, eaten at the Passover seder as a reminder of the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.
• MasorahThe collection of marginal notes on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the 8th-9th centuries CE.
• MehujaelA descendant of Cain.
• MelachimEither one of the two Books of Kings (1 Kings = Melachim Aleph; 2 Kings = Melachim Bet).
• mesirahThe act by which one Jew reports the conduct of another Jew to a non-rabbinic authority in a manner prescribed by Rabbinic Law.
• meteg◌ֽ, a vertical bar placed under a syllable in Biblical Hebrew to mark stress.
• MethusaelThe father of Lamech.
• MilcahA sister-in-law of Abraham: a sister of Sarah.
• minhagA longstanding religious custom or tradition that is not required by Jewish law.
• mizrahA plaque attached to a wall to indicate the direction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which a Jew should face while praying.
• moshavaAn early Jewish agricultural settlement in pre-Israeli Palestine
• moshavnikA member of a moshav.
• Mount CarmelA mountain range in Israel, along the Mediterranean coast.
• NaasseneA member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who claimed to have been taught their doctrines by Mariamne, a disciple of James the Just
• NaborA surname from Spanish.
• NehushtanAny false idol.
• Nevi'imA subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh) that is known in English as the Prophets. This section is subdivided into two sections, the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets. The Latter Prophets is further subdivided into the Major Prophets and the Minor Prophets (known as the Twelve).
• notarikonA cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence.
• Old YishuvThe Jewish communities in the Land of Israel predating the First Aliyah in 1882.
• OrpahA Biblical figure, daughter-in-law of Naomi, wife of Chilion.
• -osUsed to form plurals of some Hebrew and Yiddish loanwords, usually ending in -a or -ah.
• -othUsed to form plurals of some Hebrew loanwords ending in -a or -ah.
• paamayim nekudotayimThe scope resolution operator :: in the PHP programming language.
• PadanaramA village in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States.
• prutahA bronze coin, equivalent to the Roman quadrans, used in ancient Palestine.
• qophThe nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• ReshephA god associated with plague, featured in Eblaite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian myth
• SadduceeA member of an ancient Jewish sect possibly formed as a political party in the 2nd century BCE and existing until around the 1st century CE.
• sarafotoxinAny of a class of toxins derived from the venom of the snake Atractaspis engaddensis.
• sechachThe roof of a sukkah, made up of leaves or branches.
• sefirahEach of the ten attributes that God created, through which he can project himself to the universe and man.
• shalom aleichemA greeting said on meeting someone, especially when the two people meeting have not met in some time.
• sheloshimA period of thirty days after the burial of a deceased person, during which a mourner is forbidden to do certain things, such as marrying or shaving.
• Shem HaMephorashOne of the esoteric names of God within Kabbalah, corresponding to the Tetragrammaton, often referring to a 72-worded variant in particular.
• Shemini AtzeretA Jewish holiday (holy day) occurring on the eighth day after the start of Sukkot.
• sheva brachotthe seven blessings recited after grace after meals at a wedding feast, and at festivities during the week after or before the wedding.
• Shin BetIsrael's internal security service.
• shochetA person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry
• ShunemA small village mentioned in the Pentateuch.
• soficWhose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
• son of the morningA traveler.
• TaphthartharathMercury's spirit, executing the malevolent influences of the planet.
• tekheletbiblical blue
• Tel AvivA city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
• tethThe ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• tosherA thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
• trempTo hitchhike.
• TrumpeldorA surname.
• Tubal-cainA descendant of Cain. The son of Lamech and Zillah.
• TzvikaA male given name from Hebrew.
• UzzielA minor character in the Old Testament.
• VeadarThe month of Adar when it occurs in a leap year, preceded by a 30-day intercalary month (which is then itself called Adar, or Adar Rishon).
• vitamin PAny of the water soluble bioflavonoids that promotes the resistance of capillaries to permeation.
• world to comeThe Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds.
• YavneA city in the Central District, Israel.
• YehonatanA male given name from Hebrew.
• YevanicThe nearly extinct language of the Romaniote Jews of Greece.
• Yom TeruahRosh Hashanah (the first day of Tishrei / Tishri, the first month of the civil year and seventh month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar)
• ZarphaticAn extinct Romance language, formerly spoken among the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany.
• ZebulAn officer of Abimelech. (biblical character)
• zimzumThe self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria.
• ZK"LEnglish rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific applied to martyrs
• Z"LEnglish rendering of a common Hebrew posthumous honorific.
• ZT"LEnglish rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific, usually applied to deceased rabbis or other holy figures
• zuzAn ancient Hebrew silver coin, one quarter of a shekel.