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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 of Sinope, Theodotion, and Symmachus the Ebionite.
Tanakh : Hebrew Bible Project aims at producing:
A new critical text of the Hebrew Bible that is as close as possible to the original text.
A new English translation for the Hebrew Bible and its ancient versions (Septuagint, Peshitta, Targums, Vetus Latina, and Vulgate).… Learn Hebrew
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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 occur most frequently in the Hebrew Bible.
(1) אָכַל (Eat)
(2) אָמַר (Say)
(3) בּוֹא (Go in)
(4) דָּבַר (Speak)
(5) הָיָה (Be)
(6) הָלַךְ (Walk)
(7) ידַָע (Know)
(8) יָלַד (Bring forth)
(9) יָצָא (Go out)
(1o) יָשַׁב (Sit, dwell)
(11) לָקַח (Take)
(12) מוּת (Die)
(13) נָשָׂא (Lift up)
(14) נָתַן (Give)
(15) עָבַר (Pass over)
(16) עָלָה (Go up)
(17) עָשָׂה (Do, make)
(18) צָוָה (Command)
(19) קֹום (Rise, stand)
(20) קָרָא (Call, meet)… Learn Hebrew
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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 patron of a class, profession, or art
(6) of producer, generator (figuratively)
(7) of benevolence and protection (figuratively)
(8) term of respect and honour
(9) ruler or chief (specifically)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Latin: pater, parens, progenitor
Genesis 4:20
וַתֵּלֶד עָדָה אֶת־יָבָל הוּא הָיָה אֲבִי יֹשֵׁב אֹהֶל וּמִקְנֶֽה׃
Gen 4:20 (KJV)
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.… Learn Hebrew
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Tagged Gen 26:3, Gen 27:19, Gen 31:9, Gen 4:20, Gen 48:21, Gen 9:23, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 27:19, Genesis 31:9, Genesis 4:20, Genesis 48:21, Num 1:2, Numbers 1:2, אב, אֲבִי, אֲבִיהֶם, אָבִיו, אֲבִיכֶם, אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם, אֲבֹתָם
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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 four-letter name of God, also known as “Tetragrammaton” derives from the prefix tetra- (“four”) and gramma (“letter”). The Hebrew letters are named Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh: יהוה. In English it is written as YHWH, YHVH, or JHVH depending on the transliteration convention that is used.… Learn Hebrew
Hebrew Days of The Week
The days of the week in the Hebrew Bible are not only a framework for understanding time but also a profound reflection of spiritual and religious principles. Rooted in the creation narrative of Genesis, the seven-day week, with Shabbat at its heart, shapes the foundation of Jewish observance and theological thought. While the Hebrew Bible does not explicitly name the days of the week as we know them today, it offers deep insight into their significance, particularly the sanctity of the seventh day.… Learn Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew Months : A Comprehensive Guide to the Biblical Hebrew Calendar
The Biblical Hebrew Calendar: Understanding the Months and Their Significance
The Hebrew calendar is an ancient lunar-based system used in Biblical times, crucial for understanding the agricultural, religious, and social life in ancient Israel. The Hebrew months are essential in understanding biblical events, festivals, and the timing of key moments recorded in Scripture.
Overview of the Hebrew Calendar
The Hebrew calendar consists of 12 lunar months with each month being approximately 29.5 days, resulting in a year of roughly 354 days.… Learn Hebrew
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:
(1) The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa): it is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. It is the largest (734 mm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls – http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah
(2) The Temple Scroll (11Q19): it was discovered in 1956 in Cave 11, located about 2 km north of Khirbet Qumran.… Learn Hebrew
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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 the post-biblical period. The name Hebrew language (לָשׁוֹן עִבְרִית γλῶσσα τῶν Ἑβραίων, ἑβραϊστί) does not occur in the Old Testament itself. Instead of it we find in Is 19:18 the term language of Canaan, and יְהוּדִית in the Jews’ language 2 K 18:26, 18:28 (cf.… Learn Hebrew
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 hems good especially of the essentially long vowels, i.e. those long by nature or contraction, as distinguished from those which are only lengthened rhythmically, i.e. on account of the special laws which in Hebrew regulate the tone and the formation of syllables.… Learn Hebrew
Hebrew Verbs With Gutturals
Verbs which have a guttural for one of the three radicals differ in their inflexion from the ordinary strong verb. These differences do not affect the consonantal part of the stem, and it is, therefore, more correct to regard the guttural verbs as a subdivision of the strong verb. At the most, only the entire omission of the strengthening in some of the verbs middle guttural (as well as in the imperfect Niph’al of verbs first guttural) can be regarded as a real weakness.… Learn Hebrew