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1. aleph, n. View full entry c1300
...The name of the first letter of the Hebrew, Phoenician, and other north Semitic alphabets, in printed square Hebrew having the form א. Cf. alif, alpha...
2. Amorite, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1535
...A member of any of a group of Semitic tribes who lived in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria in the third and second millennia b.c., and who are described in Biblical...
3. ankh, n. View full entry 1888
...A figure resembling a cross, with a loop or ring forming a handle instead of the upper arm: used in ancient Egyptian art as a symbol of life. Also called crux...
4. Aten, n. View full entry 1877
...One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar disc was worshipped particularly during the reign of Amenophis IV (Akhnaten) in the 14th...
5. Ethanim, n. View full entry 1535
...The seventh month (Sept.–Oct.) of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, the first of the civil year, afterwards called by the Babylonian name Tisri....
6. gaon, n. View full entry 1780
...Used as an honorific for the heads of Jewish academies in Babylonia, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt from the 6th to the 11th centuries; later in Spain, Italy and in the eighteenth century...
7. gufa, n. View full entry 1914
...A round boat, made from straw and palm branches, found in Mesopotamia since ancient times....
8. Hattic, adj. and n. View full entry 1924
...Of or pertaining to the Hatti or their language, formerly regarded as conterminous with the Hittites, now as a section of them....
9. Hittite, n. and adj. View full entry 1608
...In the Bible (Gen. xv. 20, etc.), one of a Canaanitic or Syrian tribe of greater or less extent, perh. an offshoot of the next....
10. Hurrian, n. and adj. View full entry 1911
...Name of a widespread non-Semitic people in the Middle East during the second and third millennia b.c., sometimes identified with the Horites. Also, a member of this people....
11. Iraqi, n. View full entry 1777
...A native or inhabitant of Iraq, a republic in the Persian Gulf, formerly (before 23 Aug. 1921) known as Mesopotamia: a kingdom from 1921 until the assassination of...
12. ishan, n. View full entry 1921
...A prehistoric mound in Iraq....
13. Kenite, n. and adj. View full entry 1535
...A member of an ancient nomadic people from S. Palestine, freq. mentioned in the Old Testament....
14. Kheta, n. View full entry 1884
...Name of an ancient people and kingdom in the Near East: now usually equated with the Hittites. See Hittite...
15. limmu | limu, n. View full entry 1862
...The year of office to which the holder gave his name; hence, the office itself. Cf. eponym2....
16. mastaba, n. View full entry 1603
...In the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean: a wide bench or seat, usually of stone or brick, built into the wall of a house, etc....
17. Mesopotamia, n. View full entry 1827
...Used as the type of a word which is long, pleasant-sounding, and incomprehensible (see quot. 1870). Hence used allusively of any speech which gives irrational or inexplicable comfort...
18. mimation, n. View full entry 1873
...The appending of m to the flexional vowels in Semitic languages, esp. Akkadian. Cf. nunation...
19. patesi, n. View full entry 1894
...In ancient Sumer: the ruler of a city state; a priest-king....
20. Rav, n. View full entry a1699
...A title given to various Babylonian rabbis of the 2nd–5th centuries c.e. hist....
