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When the Tanak was first written, it was written without vowels. In the early Middle Ages (ca AD 800), scribes known as the Masoretes added the system of vowel points (niqqud or "diacretic markings") that are used in pointed Hebrew texts since then. Other systems were developed at roughly the same time (as Hebrew became less of a spoken language), but only ...
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As you've pointed out, Gehenna (γέεννα) is just a transliteration of the Hebrew for "Valley of Hinnom" (גֵּי הִנֹּם) and the Aramaic for the same (גֵיהִנָּם / ܓܗܢܐ). The NET translators point out,
This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it
was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31;
19:5–6; 32:35), ...
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In Hebrew and other Semitic languages, it is standard for a group of males and females (even if there is only one male and the rest females) to be referred to by a masculine-gendered noun or pronoun. The Hebrew word is אַחִים (achim) in Psalms 133:1, meaning "brothers," but this is not necessarily to the exclusion of females, due to the rule mentioned above.
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Jewish translations make no distinction between the two verses.
Rashi looks at the Amos 3:6 in context with the verses before and after 3:6, pointing out that the roar of the lion, mentioned in verses 4 and 8, is the warning from the prophets. The prophets would prophesize a threat of evil -- i.e. Divine Retribution -- unless there is repentence. So, ...
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The classic Jewish commentator Rashi quoting the Medrash and the Talmud says:
and Abraham weighed out to Ephron: עֶפְרֹן is spelled without a “vav,”
because he promised much but did not do even a little [i.e., he
promised the cave as a gift but took a great deal of money for it],
for he took from him large shekels, viz. centenaria [worth one ...
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With 4 cubits and a span I arrive at about 2.34 m, which would amount to even more than 7' 8''.
We have to consider the older cubit (of Salomon's time and before), not the later and shorter cubit of the time the Chronicles were written.
1 Kings 6:2
Solomon Builds the Temple
... Now the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty ...
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