babylonian

adjective

«babylonian» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The Babylonian exile after 586 BCE shaped Jewish life, and the Babylonian Talmud was written there. In this text the word refers to an old script and language used in the argument about where letters came from.

Meaning

Having to do with Babylon, an ancient land and city in what is now Iraq, or its people and language. tree →

Examples

It was apparently originally invented to represent the Assyrian-Babylonian language, which consisted of seventeen or eighteen sounds. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
The earliest known use of this symbol in Babylonian in- scriptions belongs to the third century B. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

Note

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On Mova

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