Word origins

• 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.
• EliphaletA male given name.
• 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).
• asherahA wooden pole or tree set up to represent the goddess Asherah.
• SderotA city in southern Israel.
• AdrielA male given name from Hebrew.
• AharoniA surname from Hebrew.
• JeshurunThe Israelites, taken collectively.
• MayimA diminutive of the female given name Maryam.
• 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.
• IradA grandson of Cain.
• 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.
• hallelA hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii.
• JehoramA male given name from Hebrew, of chiefly biblical usage.
• ephahA former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).
• nabala long, straight, valveless brass trumpet used in the traditional music of Korea
• JadonA male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage of Biblical origin. Taken into regular use the 1990s, apparently seen as a variant of the more popular Jayden.
• 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.
• algumA tree or wood mentioned in the Bible, possibly juniper or red sandalwood.
• 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
• AmidahA prayer primarily consisting of nineteen blessings recited in a whisper while standing facing the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.
• ManoahThe father of the biblical strongman Samson.
• 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.
• MicaiahA prophet in the court of King Ahab and possibly a disciple of Elijah in the Old Testament of the Bible in 1 Kings 22.
• shacharitThe daily morning prayer.
• vaadA Hebrew council.
• haftarahA selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah.
• nazariteA Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from alcohol, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion.
• BethuelThe father of Rebekah and Laban; nephew of Abraham
• 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.
• genizahA depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can be properly buried in a cemetery.
• daithAn ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole.
• parashahA section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).
• BilhahA handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali.
• tamidThe twice-daily sacrifice of two male lambs by the priesthood.
• gimelThe third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac).
• nigunA type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song.
• AmiyaA female given name.
• shabbatonA shabbat-long or weekend-long educational gathering.
• derechThe path of propriety or righteousness, or especially of Hasidism or Judaism.
• kallahA meeting of yeshiva students for discussion and studying.
• tumtumOne whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite, possibly intersex.
• HezronThe father of Ram and the son of Perez (biblical figure).
• AmonaA former Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, abandoned in 2017.
• NaamahA descendant of Cain, daughter of Lamech and Zillah.
• KetuvimA subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), known in English as "The Writings." It includes, in order, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the five megillahs, Daniel, Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles. These scriptures are viewed as less authoritative than the Torah.
• MeravA female given name
• masortiIn a traditional Jewish manner.
• YishuvThe community of Jews living in Palestine before 1948.
• HaskalahThe Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.
• maggidA teacher of the Torah in Eastern Europe.
• ZeruiahA figure in the Hebrew Bible, a sister of King David.
• AbiahA female given name from Hebrew.
• PhilistiaAn ancient pentapolis in south-western Levant, comprising Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.
• AriahA male given name from Hebrew.
• shechinahthe presence of God.
• chavurahA small group of like-minded Jews who assemble for prayer, learning, etc.
• MaharalJudah Loew ben Bezalel, a Jewish mystic, philosopher and Talmudic scholar, and a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia (both in present-day Czech Republic).
• NahshonThe father of Salmon and the son of Amminadab (biblical figure).
• abacomancyDivination using dust, dirt, silt, sand, ashes, or smoke. Patterns in the medium under various circumstances are interpreted to envision future events.
• AbdielA male given name from Hebrew.
• AbiezerThe prince of the tribe of Dan at the time of the Exodus (Numbers 1:12).
• AbijamAn alternative form of Abijah, the king after Rehoboam (biblical character)
• AbishagThe illegitimate child of an unmarried woman and a married man.
• abnetThe girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
• AcharonA rabbi-scholar of the modern period, starting from the 16th century.
• Adar SheniVeadar.
• AdivA male given name.
• AdullamAn ancient ruin on a hilltop overlooking the Valley of Elah, straddling the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.
• agunahA Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.
• A"HEnglish rendering of a common Hebrew posthumous honorific.
• AkedahThe Binding of Isaac.
• AkkubAny of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible.