I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

The claim: COVID spelled backward is 'divoc,' which in Hebrew means 'possession by an evil spirit' A Jan. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows two cartoon zombies and several emojis, ...

English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished ...

The Hebrew name יהושע yehoshuaʿ,* was pronounced yeshu in Galilee; becoming Iesus or Jesus in Greek-Latin. The form Yeshu was probably common among the Jews at that time, but was discontinued ...

COVID-19 was chosen as the name for the disease because it describes the type of virus that causes it and the year cases were first reported. "Divoc" is not a Hebrew word, according to an expert. The ...