1. טהור ṭâhôr “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.”
2. יקוּם yeqûm “standing thing; what grows up, wheth…

Forty days. —Henceforth, forty became the sacred number of trial and patience. Besides the obvious places in the Old Testament, it…

It is the prerogative of the king to have the power of life and death, and it is the sole prerogative of the King of kings: "He can create, and He …

For yet seven days
Or one week more, after the above orders were given, which, the Jews say, were for the mourning a…

The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come indoors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go i…