Acharit hayamim – end of days
Adonai – Lord
Adonai-Eloheynu – Lord our God
Adonai-Tzva’ot – Lord of Hosts, heavens armies
Am-ha’aretz – people of the land, common person, not educated
Avinu – our father
Beit-Anyah – Bethany
Beit-Lechem – Bethlehem
Beit-Pagey – Bethphage
Beit-Tzaidah – Bethsaida
Beit-Zata – Bethesda
B’rit – covenant, contract
B’rit Chadashah – New Testament
B’rit Milah – covenant of circumcision
Challah – loaf/bread commonly eaten on the Sabbath
Chametz – leavened dough – with yeast
Chutzpah – boldness, insolence
Cohen / cohanim – priest/priests
Cohen gadol – high priest
Drash – teaching, study
Eliyahu – Elijah
Elohim – God or Gods
Eretz Israel – the land of Israel
Galil – the Galilee
Gamliel – a pharisee the teacher of Paul
Get – divorce certificate
Goy(im) – gentil(es)
Ha Elyon – the Most High
HaG’dulah BaM’romim – the Greatness on High
HaG’vurah – the Power
HaKadosh – the Holy One
Hallel – Praise, also Psalms 113-118, the great Hallel (136)
HaM’vorakh – the Blessed One
HaShem – the Name
Hoshanah Rabbah – great hosanna, more specifically, the last day of Succot
Kannah – Cana
Kapparah – atonement
Kayafa – Caiaphus
Kefa – Cephas / Peter
K’farNachum – Capernaum
Korban – animal sacrifice or gift
L’vi(im) – temple worker(s)
Macher – a doer, zealous, big cheese
Mamzer – offspring of improper relationship
Marana’ta – our Lord come
Mashiach – Messiah
Mattityahu – Matthew
Matzah – unleavened bread
M’chitzah – dividing wall
Menorah – lamp with seven candles
Mentsh – good reliable person
Meshugga – crazy
Midrash – homiletical interpretation of a text
Mikveh – pool of water for ritual purification
Minchah – afternoon sacrifice/prayers
Miryam – Mary
Mitvah/mitzyot – command/s
Moshe – Moses
Motza’eiShabbat – Saturday evening
Natzeret – Nazareth
N’tilatya-dayim – ceremonial handwashing
Nudnik – boring, pest
OlamHaba – world to come
OlamHazeh – this world
Parokhet – curtain in holy of holies
Parush – Pharisee
P’rushim – Pharisees
Rabbini – my great one, teacher
Rosh Chodesh – festival of the new moon
Ruach HaKodesh – Holy Spirit
Ruach Elohim – Spirit of God
Sanhedrin – religious court
HaSatan – the Satan – adversary
Seder – order of doing things, eg Passover
Sekhel – common sense
Shabbat/Shabbatot – Sabbath(s)
Shalom – peace, welfare, contentedness, and more
Shalom Aleikhem – peace be upon you
Sharav – hot dry wind
Shaul – Saul/Paul
Shavu’ot – feast of weeks/Pentecost
Sh’eilah(lot) – question about halakhah
Sh’khinah – manifest presence of God
Shmoose – chit chat
Shofar – trumpet, Rams horn
S’mikhah – laying on of hands
Succot – feast of booths (tabernacles)
Talmid(ah) – very close apprentice, disciple(s)
Tanakh – Hebrew Bible
T’filin – boxes tied to the hand and head, containing scripture
Torah – teaching, often poorly translated as ‘law’
Treif – torn, non kosher
T’shuvah – turn back, repent
Tsuris – troubles
Tzaddik(im) – righteous person(s)
Tz-dukim – Sadducees, from Zadok, i.e. Zadokites
Tzitzit, tzitziyot – cords in corners of clothing/prayer cloth
Yeshua – Jesus
Yerushalyim – Jerusalem
Yochanan – John, means God gives grace
Yom Kippur – day of atonement, aka ‘the Fast'
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Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling .... be glory, honour, power and authority, before all time, now, and forever (Jude v24&25)