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A Glossary of
Unfamiliar Terms
Compiled from numerous source documents
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- ga’avah
- conceit; haughtiness; arrogance; pride
- ga’avtanim
- proud boasters
- Gaayonim
- the Haughty ones
- Gabai
- the leader of the Synagogue (pl. Gaba’im)
- gadlus
- with remarkable superiority
- gadol
- great
- gahn
- (alt. gan) garden
- Galatianism
- An early heresy that insisted that in order to become part of
primitive Messianic Judaism (later to be perverted as “Christianity” by the Roman Emperor Constantine),
non-Jews must be circumcised and obey the entire Oral Tradition of the Rabbis in addition to
Yeshua’s instruction to be obedient to
Torah. Today, the term is also used of the
erroneous belief that the
whole Torah must be obeyed in order to either gain salvation or to be identified with modern Messianic Judaism. Also used disparagingly of those who expect others to
follow their own personal lists of what’s right and what’s wrong. (see also Judaize)
- Galus
- Exile (“Galus mentality” is docile and submissive)
- Gamaliel
- a celebrated rabbi of the early part of the first century, the
teacher of Shliach Sha’ul (the Apostle
Paul)
- Gan Eden
- Paradise; literally, Garden of Eden
- ganav
- thief (pl. ganavim)
- ganav
balailah
- thief in the night
- gantz
-
exceedingly
- gantze
nachon
- entirely correct
- Gaon
-
(Excellency) Reverential title of heads of
Talmudic academies of Sura and Pumbedita, Babylonia. Rabbi
Elijah of Wilna was accorded that title in the eighteenth century …
the head of a Torah Center in Babylonia in the post-Talmudic era
(pl. Ge’onim)
- gargeer
hakhitah
- grain of wheat
- gartel
-
belt
- God
(some names of)
- Adonai, Elohim, El Shaddai, YHWH, HaKadosh Baruch
Hu, Ribono shel Olam, Harachaman, Avinu Shebashamayim
- geder
-
classification
- gedolah
- great (pl. gedolim)
- Gedolim
- Great Ones; Great (Rabbinic) Leaders
- gedulah
- greatness
-
gefeirlich
- horribly
- gefilte
fish
- (Yid.) fish balls or cakes made of ground fish, eggs, matzo
meal, onions, and spices
- Gehinnom
- (alt. Gehinom) lit. Valley of Hinnom, the Jerusalem city dump
where the fires from the burning refuse were never extinguished;
Yeshua used this place as a type or picture when teaching of the
place of punishment of the unregenerate in the afterlife … Hell
- Gelili
-
inhabitant of the Galil (Galilee)
- gelt
-
(Yid.) money; traditionally given as a
Hanukah gift and used for the dreidel game
- Gemar
Chatimah Tovah
- lit. “May the final sealing be good” … traditional
greeting from the end of
Rosh haShanah
through Yom Kippur
-
Gemara
- collection of
legal and ethical discussions of the rabbis of the third through the
fifth centuries, edited about 500 CE; together with the
Mishnah forms the
Talmud
- Gematria
- finding meanings in the numerical value of Hebrew letters and
words; Jewish numerology
- gemul
tzodek
- just retribution
- genevot
- thefts
-
Gentile
- of or pertaining
to any people who are not Jewish
- ger
-
(alt. gioret ) properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
-
alien, sojourner, stranger
- the masculine and feminine forms of the
Hebrew term for convert or proselyte (pl. gerim)
- Ger
Sheker
- proselyte who declares full conversion for ulterior motives
- Ger
Toshav
- proselyte who accepts monotheism and the Noahide laws, and
who receives courtesies and privileges
- Ger
Tzedek
- full convert of true conviction, in all respects to be
considered a Jew
- gerim
-
proselytes (sg. ger)
- gerush
shedim
- exorcism
- gerusha
- divorcee
- Gerut
-
the process of conversion to Judaism
- geshem
-
rain
- geshmak
- pleasure
- geshrai
- a scream
- get
-
religious divorce; the word is used to refer to a Jewish bill of
divorcement
- geter
iska
- “transaction permit” allowing a money lender to take interest
by making him a partner of the borrower sharing his profits
-
geulah
- redemption
-
gevaltike
- (Yid.) extraordinary
- gever
-
male
- geviya;
geviyah
- corpse
- gevurah
- miraculous power
- gevurot
- mighty deeds
- Gevurot
Geshamim
- “the Power of Rain”, a Praise to God for the revelation
of His powers in Nature, added to the silent prayer
- gezar
din
- verdict
- gezel
-
robbery
- Gezerah
- laws or traditions added by the
Pharisees as “fences” around the existing
law in an attempt to
prevent it from being broken
- gibbor
-
strong man
- gidduf
-
blasphemy
- giddufim
- revilements
- gilui
arayot
- sexual immorality
- giyyur
-
proselytization
- gneyvot
- thefts
- Go’el
-
Redeemer
- Go’el
Yisrael
- “The Redeemer of Israel”, one of the eighteen benedictions
of the Amidah prayer
- gofrit
-
sulfur
-
goilomim; goilem
- foolish people
- goirem
-
driving force
- goires
-
listen to
- golus
-
exile
- gonvei
nefesh
- kidnapper; slave dealers
- gor
-
very
-
Goy
- nation, foreigner,
stranger, Gentile, non-Jew (pl. Goyim)
- goyim
- nations; generally applied to non-Jews, but also used to
refer to the nation of Israel
-
- grahda
-
as a matter of fact; in reality
-
Great Hallel, The
- Hebrew
designation for Psalm 136 (see
Hallel)
- grogger
-
(alt. greegers, graggers) noisemaker used to drown out Haman’s name
during the reading of the
Megillah on
Purim
- groise
-
eminent
- guddal
-
being brought up
-
gufaniyut
- corporeality; having a physical body
- gufot
-
bodies
- Gulgolta
- (alt. Golgoltha) a hill outside Yerushalayim called “the Skull” on which Yeshua was
crucified. Sometimes referred to as Calvary. Some believe this to be
Mt. Moriah, the site of Avraham/Abraham’s offering of
Yitz’chak/Isaac
- gzeira
- authoritative command
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