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I. Lesson 1 - Old Testament Open Book Hebrew Language
A. Four mottos for working with the Hebrew language.
1. Time is everything - it is important to be able to translate the Hebrew words into English quickly so that the student will have time to figure out the proper interpretation.
2. Consonants are ninety percent - "Hebrew is consonantal. This means that the reader only sees consonants. This is similar to taking all the vowels out of [a] page of English text."
3. In Hebrew, the spoken takes precedence over the written.
4. Hebrew is highly contextual - Very much depends upon the content of the whole sentence. Otherwise, not much can be known about verb tenses and other important grammatical issues.
B. Hebrew does not have a "ch" sound as in the name, Rachel. They would pronounce Rachel as Ra-kell. Hebrew uses slight guttural sounds in some instances.
C. Hebrew is the only language that was once dead and now lives. During the Middle Ages (500AD to 1500AD, Hebrew was not spoken, but today, it is spoken in Israel as their main language.
D. "The first point to make about writing Hebrew is that it is written right-to-left, the opposite of English. . . . The order of the pages is similarly in reverse order to what English readers are used to. A few pages after [the] title page would be page one, and pages are turned from the left to the right."
E. "The second point to make about writing Hebrew is that there are no upper or lower case to letters. All the letters look like they are upper case, or capitals."
F. The Greeks got their alphabet from Hebrew.
G. A translation interprets the English meaning from the Hebrew word. A transliteration converts the Hebrew letters to the English equivalent letters and forms a new word. Shalom is a transliteration of the Hebrew word that would be translated as peace or blessing.
H. The Hebrew alphabet (by names, not symbols) and their English letter transliterations.
1. aleph - right semi - 'e (א) |
2. beth - b (ב) |
3. gimel - g (ג) |
4. daleth - d (ד) |
5. he - h (ה) |
6. vav - w (ו) |
7. zayin - z (ז) |
8. het - h (with dot) (ח) |
9. tet - t (with dot) (ט) |
10. yod - y (י) |
11. kaph - k (כ) final form (ך) |
12. lamed - l (ל) |
13. mem - m (מ) final form (ם) |
14. nun - n (נ) final form (ן) |
15. samek - s (ס) |
16. ayin - left semi - 'a (ע) |
17. peh - p (פ) final form (ף) |
18. tsadeh - s (with dot) (צ) final form (ץ) |
19. qoph - q (ק) |
20. resh - r (ר) |
21. shin or sin - s (over) (ש) |
22. tav - t (ת) |
I. Yod is the smallest letter spoken about in Matthew 5:18 ("I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.").
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Tom of Bethany "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (I John 5:12)
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OTCL 505 - Old Testament Hebrew Language (Lessons 9-13)
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