-
Recent Articles
Archives
Categories
Author Archives: ivrit
Tanakh : Hebrew Bible Project
Tanakh Hebrew Bible Project is a Polyglot Online Bible that contains the Hebrew Bible and its ancient versions in parallel – Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum Onkelos, Samaritan Targum, Syriac Peshitta, Septuagint, Old Latin, and Latin Vulgate, and also the Greek versions of Aquila … Continue reading
Posted in Textual Criticism
Leave a comment
Hebrew Verbs Occuring 500 – 5000 Times
The chief difficulty to overcome in the mastery of Hebrew language is the acquisition of a vocabulary. Out of the 7,000 vocables in the Hebrew language, about 1,000 occur over 25 times. The following are the list of verbs which … Continue reading
Posted in Vocabulary
Leave a comment
אב
אב (‘âb): (1) father of an individual (2) of God as father of his people (3) head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan (4) ancestor (a) grandfather, forefathers – of person (b) of people (5) originator or … Continue reading
Posted in Hebrew Lexicon
Tagged Gen 26:3, Gen 27:19, Gen 31:9, Gen 48:21, Gen 4:20, Gen 9:23, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 27:19, Genesis 31:9, Genesis 48:21, Genesis 4:20, Num 1:2, Numbers 1:2, אֲבִי, אֲבִיהֶם, אֲבִיכֶם, אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם, אֲבֹתָם, אָבִיו, אב
Leave a comment
Hebrew Names of God in The Bible
List of the different Hebrew names of God in the Bible and their meaning. (1) יהוה (YHWH) – The Tetragrammaton The most important and most often written name of God in the Hebrew Bible is יהוה (YHWH, or YHVH), the … Continue reading
Hebrew Days of The Week
The Hebrew names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week. In Hebrew, these names may be abbreviated using the numerical value of the Hebrew letters, for example יום א׳ (Day 1, or Yom … Continue reading
Hebrew Months
Month Hebrew English Length The Bible Holidays 1 נִיסָן Nisan 30 days Called Abib(Exodus 13:4, 23:15, 34:18, Deut. 16:1) and Nisan (Esther 3:7) in the Tanakh. פֶּסַח Passover 15th-21st of Nisan 2 אִיָּר / אייר Iyyar 29 days Called Ziv … Continue reading
The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, is now available online for free viewing. It is a project of Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Dead Sea Srolls available for free viewing online are: … Continue reading
Posted in Textual Criticism
Tagged 1QM, 1QpHab, 1QS, Deas Seas Scrolls, DSS, The Community Rule Scoll
Leave a comment
History of the Hebrew Language
1. The name Hebrew Language usually denotes the language of the sacred writings of the Israelites which form the canon of the Old Testament. It is also called Ancient Hebrew in contradistinction to the New Hebrew of Jewish writings of … Continue reading
The Aspiration of the Tenues
The harder sound of the six Begadkephath letters, indicated by a Dageš lene, is to be regarded, according to the general analogy of languages, as their older and original pronunciation, from which the softer sound was weakened. The original hard … Continue reading
Unchangeable Hebrew Vowels
What vowels in Hebrew are unchangeable, i.e. are not liable to attenuation (to Šewâ), modification, lengthening, or shortening, can be known with certainty only from the nature of the grammatical forms, and in some cases by comparison with Arabic. This … Continue reading
