* For the following terms, a dash "-" is placed in the
place of a vowel when the word is a word for God. For example:
L-rd for Lord.
Abba - Dad / Daddy / Papa
Adonai - the L-rd
Adonai Echad - the L-rd is one
Adonai haElyon - the L-rd Most High
Adonai Shalom - the L-rd of Peace
Adonai Tzidkeynu - the L-rd our Righteousness
Adonai Tzvaot - the L-rd of Hosts
Adonai Yeshuateynu - the L-rd our Salvation
Adonai Yeera - the L-rd our Provider
Alaykhim Shalom - and unto you be peace (response to greeting)
Am Yisrael Chai - the people of Israel live
Amidah - Prayer
Av - Father
Avinu Malkeynu - Our Father and Our King
Avraham - Abraham
Avraham avinu - father Abraham
Bar - Son (Aramaic)
Baruch haShem - Bless the Name (of G-d)
Barucha - Blessing (often of the meal, ie: after meal)
Bat - daughter
Ben - son (Hebrew)
Brit Chadashah - New Covenant
Brit Milah - Circumcision
Bubbemeises - old wives' tales
Challah - bread set aside for priests, today it is used
for fellowship
Chametz - leaven / yeast
Cohan / Cohen - priest
Cohen haGadol - high priest
Davvening - praying
Drashot - sermons / teachings
Eliyahu - Elijah
Eretz - Land
Eretz Yisrael - the land of Israel
Erev - Evening
Gan Eden - Paradise
Gey Hinnon - Hell
Goy - a gentile
Goyim - gentiles (literally nations)
Halakhah - Jewish customs
Halel - psalms of praise
Hallelujah - Praise G-d
haShem - the Name (G-d's personal name)
Hatikvah - Hope (the Israeli national anthem)
Kadosh - holy
Kehilah - Congregation / Church
Kenneret - the Sea of Galilee
Korban - sacrifice
Kvetching - complaining
L'Chaim - To Life (often used as a toast)
L'Shana Tova - Happy New Year
Levim - Levites
Marana ta - our L-rd come
Mashiach / Moshiach - Messiah / Christ
Matzah - unleavened bread
Mayim - water
Mazel-tov - congratulations
Melchi-Tzedek - Melchizedek / King of Righteousness
Melech - King
Menorah - lampstand
Mentsh - a real person, moral, energetic
Meshugga - crazy
Midrash - paraphrase of a book
Mikveh - Baptism
Mitzvah - Commandments / good deeds
Mitzvot - Commandments / good deeds
Moshe - Moses
Motzaei Shabbat - end of the Sabbath (Saturday night)
Olam - universe / world
Olam haba - the world to come
Olam hazeh - this world
Oyveh - boy are we in trouble! (woe is me!)
Parokhet - curtain
Pesach - Passover
Prushim - Pharises
Rabbi - teacher
Rosh HaShanah - Feast of Trumpets
Rouah haKodesh - Holy Spirit
haSatan - the devil / Satan
Seder - dinner, usually a special festival dinner
Shabbat - Sabbath (seventh-day - Friday evening sunset to Saturday
sunset)
Shabbat Shalom - Peace of the Sabbath (a Sabbath greeting)
Shalom - peace
Shalom alaykhim - peace be unto you (greeting)
Shavuot - Pentecost
Shem - name
Shmai - the call to prayer
Shmoose - talk at ease / talk ungardedly
Shofar - ram's horn (frequentily translated "trumpet")
Sukkot - Tabernacles (Jewish Thanksgiving festival)
T'fil-lin - phylacteries (box to hold scriptures)
T'shuva - repent
Tallis - prayer shawl
Tallit - prayer shawl
Talmid - disciple
Tanakh - Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)
Torah - Books of the Law / Pentateuch (Books of Moses)
Treif - non-kosher
Tzdukim - Sadducees
Tzion - Zion
Tzitzit - fringes on the prayer shawl
Yerushalayim - Jerusalem
Yeshoua (ha Masshiah) - Jesus
Y'shua (ha Masshiah) - Jesus
Yeshua - Joshua
YHVH - Living G-d, I AM the eternal One
Yochanan the Immerser - John the Baptist
Yom Kippur - Day of Attonement