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  • And the term Yam Suf, which is the biblical term, means a marshy area filled with reeds, just like you said.

    Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea 2010

  • Negro name of the _Dioscorea sativa_, in English "Yam."

    The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

  • Report Abuse according to history, this man al-Asiri is from well know tribe in Saudi from the south west, this tribe belongs to the biggest tribe in Arabia called Yam, Yam from Hamadan is actually the main tribe of King Solomon and Sheba, they used to be Jewish tribes of Solomon as some of these tribes still exist till today as Jews in Yemen and still keep their Jewish faith freely without problems.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The player assumes the role of a Potato solider called Yam and must fight there way through various environments to complete missions and progress the story line.

    Mac Game Files 2010

  • However thanks to the bravery of a Potato called Yam the

    Mac Game Files 2010

  • Passage 53, like other examples, such as Yam'Tcha +33-140-26 08-07, is quite small, with only a couple of dozen covers.

    A Dinner-Time Surprise Bruce Palling 2010

  • What you thought you heard that day in 1911, when I missed a six-inch putt, was only "Yam," which is a Thibetan expression meaning "How dreadfully unfortunate!"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 Various

  • 'Yam' is food; 'tummach' (Port.) is the metaphorical heart; 'cockerapeak' is early dawn, when the cock speaks; all writing, as well as printing, is a 'book;' a quarrel is a 'bob;' and all presents are a 'dash,' 'dassy' in Barbot, and 'dashs' in Ogilby.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Many of the place-names in the book of Exodus, such as the Red Sea (in Hebrew Yam Suph), the river Shihor in the eastern delta (Joshua13:3), and the Israelites’ stopping place at Pi-ha-hiroth, seem to have Egyptian etymologies.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Many of the place-names in the book of Exodus, such as the Red Sea (in Hebrew Yam Suph), the river Shihor in the eastern delta (Joshua13:3), and the Israelites’ stopping place at Pi-ha-hiroth, seem to have Egyptian etymologies.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

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