Hebrew: 8 Discoveries You'll Make When You Learn to read the Old Testament in Hebrew
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- When you learn biblical Hebrew, you'll discover a lot about the Old Testament that you didn't know previously. I'm not talking about hidden prophetic codes or anything like that though. I'm talking about things that really make you want to learn Hebrew! Here are just 8 things that I learned about the Old Testament when I learned biblical Hebrew, which you too can discover when you learn biblical Hebrew!
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For me, the biggest benefit of studying greek and hebrew is that it forces me to slow down and read the text carefully and consider every word.
Not sure if I would call it the biggest benefit, but it definitely is one for me as well. If you have to stop to think about the vocabs and Syntax you also observe meaning clearer
@@rubeno1838 Amen.
I agree. When I broke down Genesis chapter 1&2 SLOWLY. I discovered that God did not create the entire earth from nothing in six days. Also, there were two different creations of mankind and that Adam and Eve were NOT the first of mankind, but ONE of the first of many Adams created from the clay of the earth.
I would have never discovered that if I would not have translated in hebrew at a much slower reading pace.
@@Josieb4008 @Josie B Shalom, I'm not sure what you used to read the passages but everything was indeed created in six days as the word yom is clear. God only created one male and one female, no multiple. The thing with the word for Adam is it can be used in a couple of ways: as a proper noun (name) or as mankind; context will differentiate this. May your studies of the Word enhance your knowledge and understanding and bring you closer to YHWH!
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If you have truly read the bible in its hebrew language, you would know that God did not create the complete earth in 6 days; just part of the earth . Only the top layers of the earth(the terrain) is really 7,000 years old. But, the actual earth itself is billions of years old. ONLY Genesis 1:1 says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth", but in THAT one verse it NEVER says how long it took initially. Then, in the next verse,, 1:2 it reads "but, then it (the earth) BECAME without form" obviously something happened resulting in the earth's surface being destroyed. Yes, the bible even says that Elohim created mankind to REPLENISH the earth and repopulate it!
Genesis 1 & 2, also tells us that TWO separate generations of mankind were created in two very different locations:
1) A first generation of mankind was created in the heavens and sent down to earth after the old earth was destroyed. This generation of mankind was created from the dust of the heavens to create God-like humans. YAWEH was one of the God-like humans created in the image and likeness of Elohim; along with other God-like humans being male AND female. These God-like humans were given dominion over the earth.
2) A second generation of mankind was formed from the dust of the earth to make a slave. Adam & Eve were NOT created in the image nor likeness of Elohim, but created by one of the God-like humans that Elohim created: YAWEH who breathe the breath of life into his creations: Adam & Eve. Also, Adam & Eve were never given dominion over the earth. Adam was simply formed to till the earth; Eve was only formed to be Adam's companion.
8 Discoveries You'll Make When You Learn to read the Old Testament in Hebrew:
1. More to Hebrew to read than Greek.
2. Richer Literary Corpus. More genres.
3. Richer cultural diversity.
4. Hebrew text criticism is challenging. So much more complex than Greek.
5. Lexically simpler than Greek. Greek has 2000 roots, Hebrew has 800 roots.
6. More challenging morphology. Vowel pointings can be more complex.
7. Exegetically more demanding.
8. The Old Testament is foundational. Hebrew uncovers a greater understanding of God's work throughout Scripture.
You mentioned the idea of making a video talking about the textual criticism difference between the new and old testaments. I think that would be a great topic for a video. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of how it works in the new testament but not in the old testament.
Great suggestion!
... your 8'th discovery was a blessing to us all, I think - a real insight; many trained theologians in ministry can barely read greek - and hebrew will be considerably more exotic to the vast majority. Often scholars will have specialized in one or the other, subsequently rooting them as a specialist in the old or new testament, but - very rarely both. It's a catastrophe, I think, and I just marvel at the fact that Israel to day - as we speak - have an extremely dedicated and active movement of jews coming to Jesus Christ. They unite both worlds - both testaments - hebrew and greek - and it's a big move, I think, from the holy spirit - just a huge blessing. You're a blessing too! Thanks for all your time and effort. Kind regards. Kim
I'm currently learning Hebrew using the Aleph with Beth video lecture program. It uses the comprehensive input method which is the best way to learn a language in my opinion.
Thanks for sharing!
Great book. Very helpful
Great! As a native Hebrew speaker I love Aleph and Beth methodology and structure! Those fellas are great! Although I disagree with their pronounciation of some sounds! Good luck, friend!
One of the most surprising things about Biblical Hebrew for me has been how it has impacted my personal worship! Since the Psalms are written in Hebrew, many Christians and Jews have made beautiful worship songs in Hebrew (with various pronunciations), and I have began to listen to them throughout the day as I am able. This has been helpful for vocabulary accusation and grammatical constructs, but also has made me more worshipful throughout the day! Here is a link to a playlist that I have put together, most of the songs are straight from Scripture, but not all:
ua-cam.com/play/PLLDQnTNItczHDDKgWonPu4HDXxoSd_C4A.html
Wow, thank you for sharing this!
G391844 thank you so so much for that playlist! God bless you 🙏
When I was a new believer, a lifetime ago, I was taught that the OT was not important. It was still scripture, inspired, etc... but it wasn't as important at the NT. For probably 15 years I spent most of my time in the NT other than Psalms and Proverbs. Once I actually started reading the same scriptures that our Messiah read my eyes were opened and so much of the NT became much more alive to me. You could look at the edges of the pages in my Bible and see where I was spending most of my time. Now I try to spend equal amounts of time in each.
I've learned some Hebrew but not even enough to be dangerous. I'm looking forward to hopefully being a member and taking my first real steps to learning Biblical Hebrew.
On average, how long do you expect the course to take for someone of moderate intelligence?
Wow. This makes it more exciting: To know God more.
Same as you Daryl, when I went to Israel to study NT Greek further, I thought, having the LXX, which history shows us that until the church was becoming Catholic (no offense yall) around early 400s AD the OT was in Greek, i.e the Septuagint (LXX) and so I thought that knowledge of Greek to be sufficient... but now, having been studying and speaking Modern and OT Hebrew, I LOOOOVVVEEE this language. Thanks for this. Good thoughts. There is so much insight in Hebrew for names and other things transliterated in Greek or English, that you can get insight by learning Hebrew. Like I am so much more sensitized when I see ישוע Yeshua (modern pronunciation) that means RESCUE or SALVATION in either Greek NT or OT like in the Psalms to remember we are talking about the name of the Son of God. Like when the Psalms says Yhwh יהוה is Yeshua ישוע that it not only means God's name is Salvation but it means that He that appeared to Moses at the burning bush is Jesus.... so cool.
Hi! Wow! Yes, I was listening to Anthony Rodgers, and he deals a lot with Jesus in the OT. He mentioned that Jesus was the one in the burning bush, Jesus was the one that met and struggled with Abram later named Abraham and was Jesus was also the one that came to Abraham with the two angels just before they destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and so much more and it's honestly mind blowing when you piece it together and that revelation first hits you! It's better than your first high lol excuse the example.
I've never done drugs, but I know of so many friends that have and are still addicted to drugs and they always mentioned how that first high felt and how you can never experience that again. My high is learning about and discovering more about our saviour.
Continue making this based videos brother , god bless
The Hebrew Bible also has a system of accents which helps in dividing sentences to clauses & phrases - fascinating for me. Correction: Lamentation chapter 3 has an acrostic of 3 for each alphabet, making it 66 verses.
Holy Spirit is a good interpreter.
Do you believe the Hebrew gematria is/should be applied to the Old Testament scriptures? Or do you happen to have any videos or links speaking to this?
Slow down brother. I love your content, it is very rich but you are talking so fast I feel like I’m running and trying to learn at the same time.
There was quite a number of things I learnt was deuteronomy 6 v5 the last word strength is in fact is an adverb which changes the whole meaning of the verse LXX has strength but the Hebrew doesn't
I've learned that the translations we use are lacking and highly influenced by the translators experience (or inexperience)
For example, a beloved proverb is usually rendered "as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another". This isn't what it says at all. For one thing, iron is not used to sharpen iron. We use abrasives to do this. At the time this was written, that abrasive would have been a stone. Second, the word "sharpen" is not even used, but rather a word indicating unity
My reading of the verse (as a lifelong amateur smith) is that this is an early discussion on the process of forge welding. Several strips of iron of various qualities are mated at their faces and forged together at a white heat. The resulting iron is singular and of superior quality to the previous individual scraps
A translator unfamiliar with metal working cannot possibly render this correctly
Which Hebrew pronunciation do you use?
Brother I am in between deciding to learn Hebrew, Aramaic, or Biblical Hebrew. I feel like Hebrew is something a little more logical to learn for the modern world, especially with what is coming. However, my understanding is some of the New testament scriptures were written in Aramaic. I'm having a difficult finding information about old testament, though and my plan is to learn Greek, as well, so that will have a large part of the New testament scriptures covered. My understanding, though, is a lot of the direct disciples of Jesus, which walked with him, wrote in Aramaic. Is this true? In your opinion, should I learn all four (including Greek)?
If so, in which order would you recommend? Everything, but paleo-hebrew? I know I shouldn't go after them all at one time, I just don't want to waste my time, or get them mixed up. I definitely appreciate your advice. Thank you.
Hebrew Syntax is so much easier that it easily offsets for the a little komplex vowel system…
When will the advanced courses (like Greek milestones) start in Hebrew ?
We should have them underway toward the end of the year.
Thanks for your upload.
What should Protestant Christian make of the seemingly erroneous Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible?
Good question. Every translation has problems, but they also have their value - for example they help us to understand how the translators understood the text they were working with, which in turn helps us. Take a look at this video on the Septuagint for more detail: ua-cam.com/video/FerK1KCETNQ/v-deo.html
Darryl,
I’ve heard that while Hebrew can be interpreted on the level of words, sentences, paragraphs, and discourses, like other languages; but it also can be interpreted on the letter-by-letter level, because each Hebrew letter has its own meaning (not as just part of a word). Is there any truth to this?
I’m not Darryl, but I heard it before I learned as well. Before I learned Hebrew I was fascinated by the idea, but when learning it I realized that it is nonsense. It only works with some cherry picked words. The letters are just named by words starting with the same sound, nothing to do with meaning.
This is the literary equivalent of voodoo or horoscopes. Yes, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has some sort of history and thus meaning to it, but it is not what the original author (divine or human) intended and lends itself to gnosticism (secret or hidden knowledge). So, I'd steer clear of it and consider what the clear text is trying to say instead.
To my understanding the language got started (or at least the alphabet) as pictographic, with each word being a two consonant root, and those two consonants together more or less defined the word. (Our English word "Hey" originated from the Hebrew letter that means breath or to behold, as far as I know)
There are many significant word meanings based on letters, like Jesus saying "I am the alpha and Omega", which in Hebrew would be aleph and tav, but those two letters together is God on the cross, or the bull(strength) being sacrificed. I've found many significant word meanings and pictures (like the gospel being shown in the word bereshit), but this is different from equidistant letter sequencing, which many find to be more on the "voodoo" side.
I am hesitant to comment, but think I’d better. I have looked into this for a few years, so I’ll give you something to go on. English “father” is Hebrew “ab”. The original letters/pictures show aleph as an ox with the meaning of first, strong, chief, and bet as a tent with the meaning of tent, house, dwelling; therefore, the father is depicted as the strength of the house, the chief of the house. Son or ben is bet (house) plus nun (life, live, continue) and means the house lives or the continuation of the house, which is what the son does for the household/ family (name). YHWH is yod (hand, deed (with hands), work (with hands) make (with hands)), hei (behold, grace), waw or sometimes now vav (nail, attach, join), and another hei, which means “the hands of grace nailed in grace” or “the hands, behold! The nails, behold!”; either way it becomes a clear reference to Yeshua. If you’re interested in more, check out Frank Seekins’ book Hebrew Word Pictures or look him up on UA-cam, but there aren’t many videos; he is usually being recorded as a guest by the host, but those will help you decide if you should invest in the book. “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter” Proverbs 25:2. We are kings (and priests, Rev 1:6, 5:10), and this is just one of many ways to search out and pursue Him. May YHWH bless you in whatever quest leads you closer to Him.
@@cameronnebe That's pretty neat! So Aleph means God and Tav means cross?
As I study Hebrew I realised that the Jews had similar concepts of thinking like the Chinese and the Hebrew alphabet are square shaped like the Chinese words
you forgot to mention that Biblical Hebrew is closer to Modern Hebrew than Biblical Greek is to Modern Greek. Therefore you'll be able to both read Old Testament Hebrew and use that to enjoy a conversation on the streets of Israel. Modern Greek borrows a lot from Turkish as well as Italian and French. I've read that Greece has not focused on "purifying" their language from other languages. The Greek government had public speeches in ancient Greek but there hasn't been a movement to bring back ancient Greek into daily life. There are significant differences between Modern Greek and Biblical or koine Greek. So your vacation in Greece will be more challenging.
I learned the Tetragrammaton (יהוה) is Jehovah.
(יהוה) is the all seeing eye of Freemasonry. Jehovah.
I'm questioning the MasoNretic Text now.
The correct pronunciation was lost out of respect for its sanctity. The Name was uttered only once in a year by the high priest in the Holy of Holies of the Temple. For sure, it can't be "Jehovah" as there's no letter J in Hebrew. .
But isn't the Septuagint 12 centuries older than the Masoretic text we have today and more 'accurate' in that it kept Christian references the Jewish authorities later sought to remove? I mean don't get me wrong, I love Hebrew and have a basic level but got into the Greek due to the Septuagint being a more accurate version of the Old Testament (not trying to start a theological argument but there are plenty of interesting scholars who have posted about the many variations between the two). However a great presentation and very tempting!
The consonants of the Hebrew text are more ancient than the Septuagint. What was done in the 7th century A.D. was the written vowel symbols were added. Before that it was not needed because every Hebrew person could read it without the vowels. It was when it was in danger of being lost that they added the vowel symbols (The Niqqud). The Dead Sea scrolls date from before Christ and show that the Hebrew scriptures had not changed since 100BC. There are also many fragments far older than that which agree with the modern version.
Agree with the mention of the vowels. Also, the Septuagint only included the Jewish Torah, the first 5 books of Moses. It never included the Hebrew translations of the histories, prophets, Psalms, etc.
It's because the 🎩 need everyone calling on their tetragrammaton (יהוה) all seeing eye 👁️
Christianity keeps digging itself into the pit.
@@allwillberevealed777 Ummm this is for intelligent comments, you're on the wrong page (Pagan liberal left junk is elsewhere...)
Daryl, I realize my first comment looked like a plug for something else, so you probably deleted it. My apologies as that’s not at all what I intended. What I meant was to recommend you do a review of Griffin’s work, and posted a link to a paper he wrote explaining his approach. If you have time, I’d love to see your thoughts on it.
Hey, Sorry I didn't see your comment at all, and I don't think I've ever deleted a legitimate comment - only obvious spam (links to dodgy sites, etc). On the odd occasion I've hidden a users' comments if it is nasty, but if it is a legitimate comment I wouldn't have deleted it even if it is a plug. Can you repost the comment or email me at support (at) biblicalmastery.academy. Thanks!
A hole new world
" than what it is"... ? I cannot hear this phrase without wincing. This channel would be invaluable if only 1. The material to be delivered had a organised and coherent structure 2. The speed of delivery was slower. I feel I am being shouted.
Thanks for your feedback. How would you better structure this?
The only way to learn the TaNaCh (OT) is to learn it with the Jewish commentators like Rashi or Onkelos whose translation was in Aramaic. The problem with most translations is that the translators that disregarded the Jewish scholars and replaced words or meanings to fit their narrative have literally bastardized the text.
I was all with you until your final point. If your intent is to read exegetically then you should not make any assumptions about Christian nor any other foundations in the Tanach. We must read it on ITS terms, not ours.
Yeah but the Greeks have a rich library of classical literature.
Jews barely have the Talmud on top of the Tanakh.
Yeah but I don't understand Hebrew so I can't decipher the meaning of the Tetragrammaton. However, I understand English and English uses a lot of greek/Latin words that have been redefined in English. So I can understand the Greek Tetractys which is basically the same thing as the Hebrew Tetragrammaton. You know the word Apocalypse, a Greek word, means to uncover or reveal? In English it means destruction. Yeah destruction for the ones who are using you as cattle. Apocalypse for us is going to be great because the veil will be removed and some of us will return to the garden. I'm hoping a lot of you start to wake up to the metricks I mean mytricks I mean the Matrix because EVERYTHING is now trickery. Most of you don't even understand that you're under their spells and the manipulation the word spells to have different meanings. I have to use word etymology just to make sense of the exoteric literal meaning of the biblical story and decipher its esoteric inner teachings.
How do you decipher it? With the Alpha and Omega which is also the alphabet and numbers. These letters are also symbols and if you can decipher symbols then you may reach "Knowsus."
When you read the bible in hebrew, and not the faulty english translation, you will quickly discover that:
Leviticus 23:1-4 twice defines Gods 7th day sabbath as a "moedim".
Why does this matter?
Psalm 104:19 in the hebrew states:
"The MOON appoints the moedim".
Ding ding ding. You have been deceived. The book of Amos and Daniel both prophesized that the true sabbath would be HIDDEN in the end times. We are there now...
The true sabbath day is not found in a manmade pagan Roman calendar.
Infact, the word planetary week derives from the greek word PLANAO, which means "to deceive, alter, lead astray, error".