I am a 70 year old male recently ,last 2 years began to walk with the WORD. I always cross reference what people espouse about or they claim is scripture. Have been slowly learning that in my KJV1611 there are still slight off translations which I believe is in the understanding of the Hebrew grammar. So I am trying to get my head around hebrew. God bless all Emunah.
Hi! I’m Katie! All glory to the Lord and Jesus Christ that I get the privilege of meeting you and hearing this! God has been a wonderful father since he called me to him in my grief and led me to so much joy! Thank you for sharing your gift❤.
Thank you so much for this. I am a Christian with some Greek training, but no Hebrew. This was fantastic. Only in the original languages can one find the full meaning of the verses. I’m subscribed, and look forward to more lessons. Blessings to you.
Genesis 1:1 Does a Bear shit in the woods? We're not out of the woods yet. Our woody wood pecker is in the way He created the heavens and the dung. The shithole where we reside ''The Earth is my foot Stool or Ottoman'' ''The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey'' A Cistern reservoir for flushing the Throne Toilet. "Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. That's a toilet Diarrhea from Rhea /Earth goddess/ A diary of the earth/ shit stories Images of stone reliefs shows you a ruler on a throne; relief/relieving himself Shin is an upside down M: Wario world. A sheeny curse Saviour: ''for your sake i have put myself under a curse''. The saviour went into the shit hole.
Wow, i really appreciate this class, i am currently in a discussion with my cousin, a mormon, that believes that Elohim and Jehovah are two different people and this class proves that he is wrong!!! Thank you so much and may God Bless you
Hi, Thank you so much for what you wrote! As I said in the video, I'm not here to talk about faith, but only to look at the Hebrew. However, if the facts presented could help you in any way, this is an honor for me.
Psalm 97:9 For thou, YHWH, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all ELOHIM. Genesis 1 is ELOHIM (Lucifer and the fallen angels). They made this realm. They made man in their image. (tares) Man is an idol, a trap to hunt angels. Genesis 2:7 the Lord God forms His representative in their system. (wheat) One Gospel: Gospel (GOOD ANGEL) of Reconciliation. Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself. We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness. If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever. Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods). REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.
I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints (nickname Mormon) and NO we do not believe ‘Jehovah and Elohim are two different people.’ (Your cousin is mistaken) Elohim is plural (Father/Son & Holy Spirit) and Jehovah (which pronounced name comes from YHWH: YeHoVaH )is one of the Elohim. Therefore Jehovah and the Elohim are the same. It is Hebrew that recognizes that Elohim is plural. And it was Yeshua/Jesus (as the Son) who acknowledged the Father (in the Lord’s Prayer) and the Holy Spirit in the Pentecost. They are 3 personages that are ONE. (Like 3 different flashlights shining their light on the same spot on the wall.)
@@alchemenergyacademy6231 May I ask if you believe God was once a man who earned his Godhood? My understanding is that LDS believe there are three separate Gods in the Trinity but one in purpose.
@@qwerty-so6ml So you are saying you are of your Deceptive father, the Devil/Satan who Blinded& Deceived your IGNORANT DELUSIONAL soul and Bound you For Judgement and INTO THE ETERNAL LAKE OF FIRE🔥📛🔥.! SatanAllah I Rebuke you I the MATCHLESS NAME OF MY REDEEMER MESSIAH YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST.!
PLEASE keep doing the HEBREW BIBLE so we can understand it helps people like me who are not smart enough 😭 THANK YOU so much for sharing your time and knowledge of the HEBREW BIBLE 😊
I knew how to read this phrase. I knew the translation of every word. After watching your video, now I know the *meaning* of every word. Todah rabah! I'm looking forward to the next verses!
God bless you! I'm brazilian and have looked for someone teaching the Scriptures like this and I even started tself-learning hebrew because I couldn't find it anywhere. If God gives you time and health, please continue and I know He will bless you for bringing His knowledge to more people.
Portuguese speaker here! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm studying theology and I will study basics of Hebrew. I have seen some random Hebrew words, but not as deep meaning as you have shown here. Thank you again. אלוהים יברך אותך
Dear Ilan, I really hope that everything is alright with you and your family. Please keep doing your videos, if you can. You're a great teacher! תודה רבה
I am so glad that this morning I came to your video. I have no knowledge about Hebrew, but you teaching is so concise, helpful and informative. I wish to learn more from you about what actually God says in the Bible. Thank you. May Gid bless your ministry.🎉
Biblehub has a great INT: interlinear in Hebrew. That gives you the word root, parallel verses and number of times the word is used. Chamas : like in the terrorist group Hamas comes from the word Violence Genesis 6:13-14 Other words like Babel has its root in yabal: confusion. What's interesting the number of times these words are used. God bless you ❤
I have been trying to learn a little bit of Hebrew for a couple of years now and I’ve run across a lot of really good studies, but this is the best by far that I’ve had the pleasure of seeing. Thanks very much. Continue your good work shalom.
I really liked this. Please continue this series. If you can do this the entire Genesis, I would really love it. Thanks for explaining the nuances of the verse to us.
This is great! I love the sound of hebrew and to have each word revealed so beautifully is a fascinating journey into the poetry and meaning of the bible. Thank you
Please don't stop. I love the Jewish people and the Hebrew language. Your vídeo is like a GOD sent for me. I LOVE GOD, and to be able to learn to read the Bible in the original language is wonderful. GOD BLESS CHRISTIAN
This was great. I love seeing the Hebrew and how it translates. Your explanation is very clear and helps us non-Hebrew speakers. It also helps us to understand that very few non-English languages will translate directly into the equivalent language that we would write.
I have been searching for quality Biblical Hebrew lessons. Your teaching is clear and easy to understand I hope you will be able to continue your lessons and share your knowledge with the global community. Thank you for being a blessing to us.
Thank you. You seem to have rare skill and balance. I am a native American English speaker without any special linguistic skills. I think you have found the right level at least for me. Please continue. Again, thank you!
Very interesting. Thank you for these videos. I am fascinated by the Hebrew language and learning how to speak the Bible in this original way, the meanings, etc. I serve the Lord Jesus, and I love the Word of God! I also enjoy learning Bible history, the Tanakh, the origins of mankind and everything The Almighty Father God-Elohim says in His Word. God's Word is the final authority! I am now subscribed to your channel.
i loved this video! you do a great job at explaining each word thoroughly. in the future i'd love to see you cover sections from more difficult books of the tanakh to translate like lamentations or isaiah!
Thank you for the comment! I do plan to go into the more difficult parts, like Psalm, Ezekiel, Isaiah and more. It might take some time to get there, though. Please stay tuned!
Magnificent job, thank you. I am studying the bible and im learning the hebrew alphabet, so this video really comes from “the skies”. Most Hebrew courses around are made by non-native speakers and their pronunciation is very deficient. For example they usually pronounce the Hebrew R exactly as the American R, which is very disappointing. They also miss the fact thar the aleph is actually a glottal stop in many cases. I hope you can make more emphasis in pronunciation in future videos, because it’s not easy to find the right pronunciation around and less in the biblical context. I also hope that you can mention more contrasts between the old vs. modern Hebrew. I find it quite instructive. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your lovely comment! It's funny you wrote about pronunciation, because this is something I'll talk about in my upcoming video, which is in the making right now. Please stay tuned!
I have been seeing several people discussing the question of the English translations of the first 3 verses of Genesis. Michael Heiser and James Tabor to name a couple. I am finding this explanation very useful and so far, in concert with what they have said.
Thanks for doing this series, I just started learning Hebrew today. I only really know something about how to make the sounds, but everything you explain is fascinating.
Even with translations - into Latin then several of the European languages finally into English of a number of different times (years) - the first verse of Genesis conveys the same basic message. Please forgive my rather casual translation; "The first thing, God the ultimate one' made the entire set up. All of it." As a Christian, I have no quibble with that. As a human - Christian - of the 20th Century (western calendar, not Hebrew) I have noted various translations in English (starting in the 16th Century) differ in places. This is mainly due to the change of meaning of words in English and not any problem translating the Hebrew. Too many folks cannot translate 17th Century English to current English. Good on you! Real information of any sort gives glory to the one. Keep it up!
Hi, yesterday I explained the Holy Trinity to my students thanks to this video. Linguistic is very interesting and important. So thank you 😊 Have a good day!
Some of the translation problems are the result of antiquated English. Long ago, "the heavens" referred to the sky, but "Heaven" (capital H) referred to the dwelling place of G-d. "The earth" or "earth" referred to the ground, specifically soil/dirt, but "Earth" (capital E) referred to the planet. This was truly fascinating. I can't wait to learn more. Very grateful to you for providing this!
Thank you so much! I was taking an online course in Hebrew to learn to read the Bible but I had to discontinue after a year. Your explanations are wonderful and I am so looking forward to future videos.
The middle word in the middle of the 7 words, את . Aleph and teth, is the central word. The most important. The Alpha and the Omega, the first and last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the whole Torah. It is the Mashiah who links heaven and earth, in the 2nd part of the verse. Thanks for the great teaching 😊
Thanks so much! I am from Hong Kong and only started learning some basic Hebrew lately with the aim to read the Bible in its original language. Your video is super helpful and fun!
Genesis 1:1 Does a Bear shit in the woods? We're not out of the woods yet. Our woody wood pecker is in the way He created the heavens and the dung. The shithole where we reside ''The Earth is my foot Stool or Ottoman'' ''The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey'' A Cistern reservoir for flushing the Throne Toilet. "Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. That's a toilet Diarrhea from Rhea /Earth goddess/ A diary of the earth/ shit stories Images of stone reliefs shows you a ruler on a throne; relief/relieving himself Shin is an upside down M: Wario world. A sheeny curse Saviour: ''for your sake i have put myself under a curse''. The saviour went into the shit hole.
Thank you ABA for Illan and family. This site gives us additional insight to His Word. Especially how to speak it properly. We are going around different churches and teaching Basic Biblical Hebrew and one of our teachers have taught over 500 children in the Philippines ! Many Filipinos are praying for your h'aterz. Keep up the good work in the Lord.
5:54 if anyone is wondering. The "of" came from a term called "construct chain." It occurs when two nouns stand together. 1. Head (noun) 2. With the definite article "the" prefixed to the word Government (noun) It reads, "head of the government" or "the head of the government."
That video is certainly a great treasure. Please do not stop making your videos, I am leaning Hebrew at the moment and videos like that are so rare on the internet. This video is amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Greetings from Brazil
Thank you very much for the video, I look forward to watching more 😊 The bible is the most wonderful book I've ever read, it amazes me every time and I'm thankful to be able to understand it more deeply. God bless you, brother ❤
Plural for the name of God makes sense with the doctrine of the Trinity. Additionally, in older English, "the heavens" plural usually refers to the sky, vs heaven where God is. So the translation into English is remarkably quite good. Japanese also reads left to right, and has the words "wa" and "desu ka" that can feel like "et". Fascinating stuff!
The equivalent of “et” in Japanese would rather be “o”, to mark the direct object of a sentence. However, in Japanese, “o” comes after the word and cannot be omitted in the standard language.
Just so you know... that plural word God, that you think proves the trinity, in Hebrew gets translated in the Septuagint (the one that Jesus used) to SINGULAR God. Greek word "theos" g2316, look it up... jus sayin....
Thank you, Ilan, for this fascinating contribution. Like many others who have commented, I come to your teaching from the Christian tradition. Please do continue your work. You are touching and enriching lives. With gratitude.
Hi Llan, Shalom 🙏 I'm looking forward to watching your channel grow and participating in the learning modules as you present them. I'm currently studying /learning the Hebrew language and understand that there are many layers to work through. Having several transliterated versions as well as the JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH תנייך ; I'm keen to gain a more in depth understanding in this amazing language. As a note: I've picked up in my research (please don't ask me to recall where) that the use of את throughout scripture is to remind us that Yehoshua Ha Mashiach; being the א and the ת is the beginning and the end; "the first and the last". Isaiah 48:12 "I AM the א and the ת" says the LORD. Revelation 1:8 Please keep these highly informative studies coming, we all need to keep in mind; we are one flock with ONE Shepherd. God bless 🙏 💝
Exactly what I’ve been looking for! To connect the original text to my studies. I’m a KJV gal as my source, I only use other English translations as references. They take out or replace verses, completely changing the meanings…I love diving deep into the scriptures. Please keep doing these videos 💯❤
Thank You! I appreciate your sharing 😊 You interpret better then the scholars. I am understanding and getting a better perspective on what GODs Word is really saying. This is true Bible Study 🥰
This is extremely good. Your way of teaching is clear and methodical, easy to comprehend. It is also helpful to remember that the whole "creative" discussion in chapter 1 is written from the point of view of an observer(s) on earth (had they been there), and having no knowlege whatsoever of the processes involved. Thus an overview of what took place in simple terms rather than a scientific dissertation.
Thank you so much for starting this channel, so that more people, me including, can learn the Hebrew language. Just a little side note, languages that are written from right to left also include Chinese, that’s how it’s used to be, and can still be written that way if one chooses to. But yes, since the world followed western standards, since 60 years ago, we mostly write from left right😅.
Thanks for the comment and your kind words! Arabic is a major language with ~380M speakers and Urdu has 230M speakers. Both are written from right to left.
@@TheBibleInHebrew I think the OP, in the final sentence, meant 'we' as in 'we Chinese' rather than 'we humans'. Btw, the word 'sky' can certainly be plural in English. It can be singular or plural, depending on the speaker. 'The skies are blue' is perfect English, as much or more than 'the sky is blue'. 'In the beginning G-d created out of nothing the skies and the ground' is how I will think of Genesis 1:1 from now on! 😊
Hi Ilan, I really enjoyed your video. One thing about “et;” Et isn’t useless; it identifies an object for the action of the verb. The reason it’s useful has to do with what you mentioned about the order of subject and verb in biblical Hebrew as well as the fact that biblical Hebrew didn’t break up sentences in the way that we are used to (this is true both in written and oral contexts). This flexibility of word order can be very poetic, but the object of the verb can become obscure. Et defines the object and allows it to be placed anywhere in the sentence - and still understood as the object. For example, you could take the first sentence of the Tanach and write it: Et haShamayim bara Elokeem beResheet v’et haretz - or other variations - and they could still be readily understood; this is not the case in a language like English. Not that this sounds better, but it is one of the great beauties of Hebrew that sentences can be constructed very flexibly for emphasis and poetic impact and the object is not mistaken for a verb.
Thanks for the comment. There are some examples in the Bible where 'et' is useful to understand the meaning, but they are few and far between. In most cases, it can be dropped without any major impact on comprehension. Also note that in Genesis 1:1, which has normal syntax, there are two 'et', so it's double redundancy.
As I listened to the explanation of Et, it reminded me of o (wo) in Japanese which also identifies the object and allows flexible word order. Thanks for that great first lesson of the first of the Bible, and for the nice follow about Hebrew grammar from ericgoldstein4734.
That's amazing. I am sure it's no different for native English speakers to pick up and read English just fine. I mean to emphasize that I percieve a great hardship in looking at Hebrew, because it's not native to me. When you can read it easily, I find that amazing. Thank you for being willing to teach Hebrew.
How beautiful to understand the meaning of these words for Jesus said I am the beginning and the end, first and last. These words make much deeper sense and the purpose of choosing those words. Makes me fall deeper in love with Jesus 🙏❤️🥰
You can also refer to the sky as skies (more often in the daytime) or heavens (more often in the night) in English, and using plural verb firms, eg the skies were blue, the stars shone in the heavens. I'm loving this and looking forward to watching more. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly.
Thank you for this! My dad watched a video about the 1755 Bible which translates things literally without context. I sent him this video. He still believes the other person who says that the Hebrew the scrolls were written in wasn’t the ancient Hebrew that the people of that time spoke, so it’s incorrect.
This was great! I like how you broke it down using simple words. I had a thought about אֵת (et); since it is spelled with the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, it could be translated as "all". Also, if the vowel chosen for B' is traditionally "Be", but with a change to the vowel it could be "Ba", meaning "when" (this coming from a Goya, who is definitely NOT a Hebrew scholar), making the opening "When God began". This would (to me) make the beginning sound more indefinite, indicating the external nature of God. So, I encourage you to continue through the Torah. I think you could make even B'midbar and Vayikra more interesting as "Etz Hayyim Torah and Commentary" did for me. I'm just a simple Christian trying to rediscover my Jewish roots.
I read your comments with interest. I am a Muslim male from Azerbaijan. Your thoughts about et is indeed reasonable. I was confused when I read 1-1 to Jews on TikTok, they said it is not "when God began to create" but "in the beginning" in a humiliating way. The issue is that I read it from US printed Torah in 1962 which is for sure was printed by approval of Jews Publication Society of the USA. The same book had footnote where I read to them "or in the beginning". Still they were not happy with that and blamed me that as if it is even not the Torah at all. Now, however, your explanation confirms one more time that the translation as "When God began to create" has the right to exist or me be the true translation. Because when we say "in the beginning God created" we may understand God was not there before He created. But when we say "When God began to create" we can clearly understand God was there before He started to create the Earth and Heaven. Now your interpretation about et as first and last letter of Hebrew then it might indeed can be understood as "all". Well I wrote this to your goodness because I found you as a good Gentlemen. Wa Aleykum salam.
I am a 70 year old male recently ,last 2 years began to walk with the WORD. I always cross reference what people espouse about or they claim is scripture. Have been slowly learning that in my KJV1611 there are still slight off translations which I believe is in the understanding of the Hebrew grammar. So I am trying to get my head around hebrew. God bless all Emunah.
Thank you for your comment.
I hope my channel will serve as a tool in your journey.
Hi! I’m Katie! All glory to the Lord and Jesus Christ that I get the privilege of meeting you and hearing this! God has been a wonderful father since he called me to him in my grief and led me to so much joy! Thank you for sharing your gift❤.
All I've learned is a great respect for our translators. The complexity of attempting to faithfully translate this is astronomical!
You are totally right!
Do you mean complex as in a verb, adjective or noun sense? It's not complex in a proper perspective. Common sense.
@@loriebeaton2337If all it takes is common sense, then we wouldn't need scholars to translate the Bible.
Thank you so much for this. I am a Christian with some Greek training, but no Hebrew. This was fantastic. Only in the original languages can one find the full meaning of the verses. I’m subscribed, and look forward to more lessons. Blessings to you.
Please sir don't stop teaching Hebrew it's a blessing for us to understand Hebrew, i pray to God he may give you strength to keep it up 😊
Genesis 1:1
Does a Bear shit in the woods?
We're not out of the woods yet.
Our woody wood pecker is in the way
He created the heavens and the dung.
The shithole where we reside
''The Earth is my foot Stool or Ottoman''
''The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey''
A Cistern reservoir for flushing the Throne Toilet.
"Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
That's a toilet
Diarrhea from Rhea /Earth goddess/ A diary of the earth/ shit stories
Images of stone reliefs shows you a ruler on a throne; relief/relieving himself
Shin is an upside down M: Wario world.
A sheeny curse
Saviour: ''for your sake i have put myself under a curse''.
The saviour went into the shit hole.
Y9u pray to god the he keeps an erection?
Absolutely ! It's wonderful ! at 11:11 I don't understand why he's saying that making a noun plural would be a form of respect.
Please do the entire Torah! The people need this!
Wow, i really appreciate this class, i am currently in a discussion with my cousin, a mormon, that believes that Elohim and Jehovah are two different people and this class proves that he is wrong!!! Thank you so much and may God Bless you
Hi,
Thank you so much for what you wrote!
As I said in the video, I'm not here to talk about faith, but only to look at the Hebrew.
However, if the facts presented could help you in any way, this is an honor for me.
Psalm 97:9 For thou, YHWH, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all ELOHIM.
Genesis 1 is ELOHIM (Lucifer and the fallen angels).
They made this realm.
They made man in their image. (tares)
Man is an idol, a trap to hunt angels.
Genesis 2:7 the Lord God forms His representative in their system. (wheat)
One Gospel:
Gospel (GOOD ANGEL) of Reconciliation.
Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom
to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself.
We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness.
If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever.
Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods).
REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.
I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints (nickname Mormon) and NO we do not believe ‘Jehovah and Elohim are two different people.’ (Your cousin is mistaken)
Elohim is plural (Father/Son & Holy Spirit) and Jehovah (which pronounced name comes from YHWH: YeHoVaH )is one of the Elohim. Therefore Jehovah and the Elohim are the same. It is Hebrew that recognizes that Elohim is plural. And it was Yeshua/Jesus (as the Son) who acknowledged the Father (in the Lord’s Prayer) and the Holy Spirit in the Pentecost. They are 3 personages that are ONE. (Like 3 different flashlights shining their light on the same spot on the wall.)
@@alchemenergyacademy6231
May I ask if you believe God was once a man who earned his Godhood? My understanding is that LDS believe there are three separate Gods in the Trinity but one in purpose.
@@qwerty-so6ml
So you are saying you are of your Deceptive father, the Devil/Satan who Blinded& Deceived your IGNORANT DELUSIONAL soul and Bound you For Judgement and INTO THE ETERNAL LAKE OF FIRE🔥📛🔥.!
SatanAllah I Rebuke you I the MATCHLESS NAME OF MY REDEEMER MESSIAH YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST.!
PLEASE keep doing the HEBREW BIBLE so we can understand it helps people like me who are not smart enough 😭 THANK YOU so much for sharing your time and knowledge of the HEBREW BIBLE 😊
I knew how to read this phrase. I knew the translation of every word. After watching your video, now I know the *meaning* of every word. Todah rabah! I'm looking forward to the next verses!
God bless you! I'm brazilian and have looked for someone teaching the Scriptures like this and I even started tself-learning hebrew because I couldn't find it anywhere. If God gives you time and health, please continue and I know He will bless you for bringing His knowledge to more people.
Portuguese speaker here! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm studying theology and I will study basics of Hebrew. I have seen some random Hebrew words, but not as deep meaning as you have shown here. Thank you again.
אלוהים יברך אותך
I loved this 🩷 Just so you know the people you’re reaching, I’m an American Christian, and was hanging on your every word! So incredible. Thank you!
I wished i would have encounter your videos when learning biblical Hebrew. Superbly explained. Thank you, your vids are gems!
Dear Ilan, I really hope that everything is alright with you and your family. Please keep doing your videos, if you can. You're a great teacher! תודה רבה
Thank you!
I'm now editing my second video.
Amen
I am from Indonesia. All glory to King Jesus the Messiah.
A comprehensive primer of the Hebrew language. So many topics condensed into a sub 20 minute video. Take a bow sir 👏
Thank you for the kind words!
I am so glad that this morning I came to your video. I have no knowledge about Hebrew, but you teaching is so concise, helpful and informative. I wish to learn more from you about what actually God says in the Bible. Thank you. May Gid bless your ministry.🎉
Biblehub has a great INT: interlinear in Hebrew. That gives you the word root, parallel verses and number of times the word is used.
Chamas : like in the terrorist group Hamas comes from the word Violence Genesis 6:13-14
Other words like Babel has its root in yabal: confusion. What's interesting the number of times these words are used. God bless you ❤
Thank you so much, Ilan! I am in the very beginning stages of learning Hebrew, so your videos will be a huge help to me. G-d bless you!
I am Indian Christian❤ blessings❤ Elohim❤ Yahweh❤ chose we people to know HIM and worship Him❤
Please dont stop your video's, i want to watch them all! Love it
Thanks for this wonderful content -looking forward to the next episode
I have been trying to learn a little bit of Hebrew for a couple of years now and I’ve run across a lot of really good studies, but this is the best by far that I’ve had the pleasure of seeing. Thanks very much. Continue your good work shalom.
Thanks
Thank you Daniel!
This is much appreciated!
This was fascinating! I’m learning Biblical Hebrew and I find this analysis very helpful. PLEASE make more videos!!
Thank you! I'm working on it.
@@TheBibleInHebrew ❤️❤️
Biblical Hebrew is different than modern Hebrew.
I really liked this. Please continue this series. If you can do this the entire Genesis, I would really love it. Thanks for explaining the nuances of the verse to us.
This is great! I love the sound of hebrew and to have each word revealed so beautifully is a fascinating journey into the poetry and meaning of the bible. Thank you
Please don't stop. I love the Jewish people and the Hebrew language.
Your vídeo is like a GOD sent for me.
I LOVE GOD, and to be able to learn to read the Bible in the original language is wonderful.
GOD BLESS
CHRISTIAN
This was great. I love seeing the Hebrew and how it translates. Your explanation is very clear and helps us non-Hebrew speakers. It also helps us to understand that very few non-English languages will translate directly into the equivalent language that we would write.
I have been searching for quality Biblical Hebrew lessons. Your teaching is clear and easy to understand
I hope you will be able to continue your lessons and share your knowledge with the global community. Thank you for being a blessing to us.
Thank you. You seem to have rare skill and balance. I am a native American English speaker without any special linguistic skills. I think you have found the right level at least for me. Please continue. Again, thank you!
Great lesson. I have been taking modern Hebrew and this just helps so much. I love this language.
Got so much more than I expected from just one verse. Brilliant stuff. Keep it going prof, and God bless you for this. GOD bless Israel.
Very interesting. Thank you for these videos. I am fascinated by the Hebrew language and learning how to speak the Bible in this original way, the meanings, etc. I serve the Lord Jesus, and I love the Word of God! I also enjoy learning Bible history, the Tanakh, the origins of mankind and everything The Almighty Father God-Elohim says in His Word. God's Word is the final authority! I am now subscribed to your channel.
I'm happy that you find my videos interesting!
i loved this video! you do a great job at explaining each word thoroughly. in the future i'd love to see you cover sections from more difficult books of the tanakh to translate like lamentations or isaiah!
Thank you for the comment!
I do plan to go into the more difficult parts, like Psalm, Ezekiel, Isaiah and more. It might take some time to get there, though.
Please stay tuned!
Magnificent job, thank you. I am studying the bible and im learning the hebrew alphabet, so this video really comes from “the skies”. Most Hebrew courses around are made by non-native speakers and their pronunciation is very deficient. For example they usually pronounce the Hebrew R exactly as the American R, which is very disappointing. They also miss the fact thar the aleph is actually a glottal stop in many cases. I hope you can make more emphasis in pronunciation in future videos, because it’s not easy to find the right pronunciation around and less in the biblical context. I also hope that you can mention more contrasts between the old vs. modern Hebrew. I find it quite instructive. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your lovely comment!
It's funny you wrote about pronunciation, because this is something I'll talk about in my upcoming video, which is in the making right now. Please stay tuned!
I have been seeing several people discussing the question of the English translations of the first 3 verses of Genesis. Michael Heiser and James Tabor to name a couple. I am finding this explanation very useful and so far, in concert with what they have said.
Thanks for doing this series, I just started learning Hebrew today. I only really know something about how to make the sounds, but everything you explain is fascinating.
I have been studying Hebrew characters and culture for many years. This is an excellent video and I am learning a lot from it. Thank you! Subscribed.
Even with translations - into Latin then several of the European languages finally into English of a number of different times (years) - the first verse of Genesis conveys the same basic message. Please forgive my rather casual translation; "The first thing, God the ultimate one' made the entire set up. All of it."
As a Christian, I have no quibble with that.
As a human - Christian - of the 20th Century (western calendar, not Hebrew) I have noted various translations in English (starting in the 16th Century) differ in places. This is mainly due to the change of meaning of words in English and not any problem translating the Hebrew. Too many folks cannot translate 17th Century English to current English.
Good on you! Real information of any sort gives glory to the one. Keep it up!
Hi, yesterday I explained the Holy Trinity to my students thanks to this video. Linguistic is very interesting and important. So thank you 😊 Have a good day!
Some of the translation problems are the result of antiquated English. Long ago, "the heavens" referred to the sky, but "Heaven" (capital H) referred to the dwelling place of G-d. "The earth" or "earth" referred to the ground, specifically soil/dirt, but "Earth" (capital E) referred to the planet. This was truly fascinating. I can't wait to learn more. Very grateful to you for providing this!
Tov, Tov! Fantastic! Thank you so much!!
Thank you for sharing your language with us English speakers. I really appreciate the insight into Scripture by a study of your beautiful language.
Extraordinary! Thanks so much! I’ll be happy to donate here or via Patreon for such fantastic content.
Thank you so much! I was taking an online course in Hebrew to learn to read the Bible but I had to discontinue after a year. Your explanations are wonderful and I am so looking forward to future videos.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
I hope you'll find my new upload helpful.
The middle word in the middle of the 7 words, את . Aleph and teth, is the central word. The most important. The Alpha and the Omega, the first and last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the whole Torah. It is the Mashiah who links heaven and earth, in the 2nd part of the verse. Thanks for the great teaching 😊
Thanks so much!
I am from Hong Kong and only started learning some basic Hebrew lately with the aim to read the Bible in its original language.
Your video is super helpful and fun!
Wow, Hong Kong!
I've been there almost 30 years ago.
Thank you for the comment!
Genesis 1:1
Does a Bear shit in the woods?
We're not out of the woods yet.
Our woody wood pecker is in the way
He created the heavens and the dung.
The shithole where we reside
''The Earth is my foot Stool or Ottoman''
''The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey''
A Cistern reservoir for flushing the Throne Toilet.
"Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
That's a toilet
Diarrhea from Rhea /Earth goddess/ A diary of the earth/ shit stories
Images of stone reliefs shows you a ruler on a throne; relief/relieving himself
Shin is an upside down M: Wario world.
A sheeny curse
Saviour: ''for your sake i have put myself under a curse''.
The saviour went into the shit hole.
Thank you very much for this video. They're very useful. I love the way you speak and you give information. Please continue, don't stop.
Thank you ABA for Illan and family. This site gives us additional insight to His Word. Especially how to speak it properly. We are going around different churches and teaching Basic Biblical Hebrew and one of our teachers have taught over 500 children in the Philippines ! Many Filipinos are praying for your h'aterz. Keep up the good work in the Lord.
5:54 if anyone is wondering. The "of" came from a term called "construct chain." It occurs when two nouns stand together.
1. Head (noun)
2. With the definite article "the" prefixed to the word Government (noun)
It reads, "head of the government" or "the head of the government."
That video is certainly a great treasure. Please do not stop making your videos, I am leaning Hebrew at the moment and videos like that are so rare on the internet. This video is amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Greetings from Brazil
Thank you for this very heartwarming comment!
I'm working on the next episode right now.
Such a great lesson. From Cambodia
This is really exciting!
Never expected to get a comment from Cambodia!
Greetibgs from East of Pretoria, South Africa. What a privilege to have listened to this episode. Shalom
Elizabeth
May the Lord Jesus bless you
Jesus preached but he was a man of deed and action. I really like this blog very much but it in no heavens gate at all.
May Lord Shiva bless you!
@@rocketmangenesisJesus lives,shiva is dead. There is no God besides the Lord God of the Bible.
Liked and subscribed. I'm teaching myself Hebrew and I printed out Genesis 1-3. This is excellent review for my understanding.
Thank you very much for the video, I look forward to watching more 😊 The bible is the most wonderful book I've ever read, it amazes me every time and I'm thankful to be able to understand it more deeply. God bless you, brother ❤
thank you so much for this series. I look forward to many many more videos
Plural for the name of God makes sense with the doctrine of the Trinity. Additionally, in older English, "the heavens" plural usually refers to the sky, vs heaven where God is. So the translation into English is remarkably quite good.
Japanese also reads left to right, and has the words "wa" and "desu ka" that can feel like "et".
Fascinating stuff!
The equivalent of “et” in Japanese would rather be “o”, to mark the direct object of a sentence. However, in Japanese, “o” comes after the word and cannot be omitted in the standard language.
@@yijianmou1325 Right, that's why I said the other words FEEL like et, in that you can drop them in casual conversation and still be understood.
Just so you know... that plural word God, that you think proves the trinity, in Hebrew gets translated in the Septuagint (the one that Jesus used) to SINGULAR God. Greek word "theos" g2316, look it up... jus sayin....
@@stevegold7307 Jesus spoke aramaic at the time. It was the apostles who used the greek translations in their letters.
It also makes sense from a polytheistic perspective, or a heinotheistic perspective like that of the ancient Israelites.
Glad I have found your channel! Great explanation. Thank you
Thank you, Ilan, for this fascinating contribution. Like many others who have commented, I come to your teaching from the Christian tradition. Please do continue your work. You are touching and enriching lives. With gratitude.
Thank you for the kind comment!
This channel is for anyone and everyone who wants to read the Hebrew Bible in the original.
Wonderful explination and lesson, much appreciated. I look forward to learning more from your videos.
Hi Llan, Shalom 🙏
I'm looking forward to watching your channel grow and participating in the learning modules as you present them.
I'm currently studying /learning the Hebrew language and understand that there are many layers to work through.
Having several transliterated versions as well as the JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH תנייך ; I'm keen to gain a more in depth understanding in this amazing language.
As a note: I've picked up in my research (please don't ask me to recall where) that the use of את throughout scripture is to remind us that Yehoshua Ha Mashiach; being the א and the ת is the beginning and the end; "the first and the last". Isaiah 48:12
"I AM the א and the ת" says the LORD. Revelation 1:8
Please keep these highly informative studies coming, we all need to keep in mind; we are one flock with ONE Shepherd.
God bless 🙏 💝
Thanks so much. You make it so clear and simple. So insightful. Wonderful
what a precious channel I found,thanks sooooooo much😊
Thank you so much!
אילן, יישר כוח!
נהנתי מאד לשמוע את ההסברים המדויקים שלך.
אתה מנגיש את התורה ,בצורה נעימה ומעניינת.
רחל גורה, אמא של אסף.
תודה רבה רחל!
ממש מעריך את התגובה שלך!
Fantastic teaching…watched over and over! I hope you continue… please!!! Thank you!
Thank you for explaining the first verse of the Bible in Hebrew. It was very informative, and I look forward to the next video.
thank you for this enlightenment. when will you make a follow up?
I'm working on it.
Hope to post the next installment soon!
Congratulations and many thanks! Extraordinary video that has added gratefully to my initial steps in Hebrew! God bless you!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Much appreciated!
Keep it up! Amazing blessing that you are giving to the world!
Thank you from mexico. As a cristian is interesting to me read bible in english and you class is very helpfull.
Thank you Jorge! I'm happy you found my videos helpful!
Exactly what I’ve been looking for! To connect the original text to my studies. I’m a KJV gal as my source, I only use other English translations as references. They take out or replace verses, completely changing the meanings…I love diving deep into the scriptures. Please keep doing these videos 💯❤
Thank You! I appreciate your sharing 😊 You interpret better then the scholars. I am understanding and getting a better perspective on what GODs Word is really saying. This is true Bible Study 🥰
This is extremely good. Your way of teaching is clear and methodical, easy to comprehend.
It is also helpful to remember that the whole "creative" discussion in chapter 1 is written from the point of view of an observer(s) on earth (had they been there), and having no knowlege whatsoever of the processes involved. Thus an overview of what took place in simple terms rather than a scientific dissertation.
Very interesting and instructive video
Thank you so much for starting this channel, so that more people, me including, can learn the Hebrew language.
Just a little side note, languages that are written from right to left also include Chinese, that’s how it’s used to be, and can still be written that way if one chooses to. But yes, since the world followed western standards, since 60 years ago, we mostly write from left right😅.
Thanks for the comment and your kind words!
Arabic is a major language with ~380M speakers and Urdu has 230M speakers.
Both are written from right to left.
@@TheBibleInHebrew I think the OP, in the final sentence, meant 'we' as in 'we Chinese' rather than 'we humans'.
Btw, the word 'sky' can certainly be plural in English. It can be singular or plural, depending on the speaker. 'The skies are blue' is perfect English, as much or more than 'the sky is blue'.
'In the beginning G-d created out of nothing the skies and the ground' is how I will think of Genesis 1:1 from now on! 😊
Thank you for sharing the knowledge of our language from the Torah.
Thank you for watching, and the lovely comment!
God bless you sir for your time to teach is not wasted you are a blessing to many.
Thank you for your kind words!
What a great video concept executed in such a nice and assailable way! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much for the comment!
You are just genius! Helping me a lot with my study of messianic studies and my biblical Hebrew class. Thank you man ❤
Hi Ilan, I really enjoyed your video. One thing about “et;” Et isn’t useless; it identifies an object for the action of the verb. The reason it’s useful has to do with what you mentioned about the order of subject and verb in biblical Hebrew as well as the fact that biblical Hebrew didn’t break up sentences in the way that we are used to (this is true both in written and oral contexts). This flexibility of word order can be very poetic, but the object of the verb can become obscure. Et defines the object and allows it to be placed anywhere in the sentence - and still understood as the object. For example, you could take the first sentence of the Tanach and write it: Et haShamayim bara Elokeem beResheet v’et haretz - or other variations - and they could still be readily understood; this is not the case in a language like English. Not that this sounds better, but it is one of the great beauties of Hebrew that sentences can be constructed very flexibly for emphasis and poetic impact and the object is not mistaken for a verb.
Thanks for the comment.
There are some examples in the Bible where 'et' is useful to understand the meaning, but they are few and far between.
In most cases, it can be dropped without any major impact on comprehension.
Also note that in Genesis 1:1, which has normal syntax, there are two 'et', so it's double redundancy.
As I listened to the explanation of Et, it reminded me of o (wo) in Japanese which also identifies the object and allows flexible word order.
Thanks for that great first lesson of the first of the Bible, and for the nice follow about Hebrew grammar from ericgoldstein4734.
Thank you ! This teaching has helped me a lot.
That's amazing.
I am sure it's no different for native English speakers to pick up and read English just fine. I mean to emphasize that I percieve a great hardship in looking at Hebrew, because it's not native to me. When you can read it easily, I find that amazing.
Thank you for being willing to teach Hebrew.
Thank you
Greatful and appreciative to your kind teachings .
God bless us all
I want to inform you , end times is now my friend . The anti christ is near enough to be exposed . Satan will be thrown out of heaven any minute now .
So so cool, I wish the internet, YT, and this presenter had all been together 50 yrs ago, for sure I would have gone on to learn Hebrew!!!!!
How beautiful to understand the meaning of these words for Jesus said I am the beginning and the end, first and last. These words make much deeper sense and the purpose of choosing those words. Makes me fall deeper in love with Jesus 🙏❤️🥰
Thank you, brother. You are a fantastic teacher of this wonderful subject. Bless you.
WOW ! I'm happy i found your channel. Thank you for your efforts. Cheers
תודה רבה❣️ השלום איתך ואלוהים יברך אותך ואת משפחתך❣️
thank you so much❣️ peace be with you and my God bless you and your family❣️
Thank you so much. I love the way you share your knowledge. I look forward to learning from you.
This is amazing. Just wow. Thank you for this informative video. We want more. God bless you and your team. ❤
You can also refer to the sky as skies (more often in the daytime) or heavens (more often in the night) in English, and using plural verb firms, eg the skies were blue, the stars shone in the heavens.
I'm loving this and looking forward to watching more. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly.
Thank you for this! My dad watched a video about the 1755 Bible which translates things literally without context. I sent him this video. He still believes the other person who says that the Hebrew the scrolls were written in wasn’t the ancient Hebrew that the people of that time spoke, so it’s incorrect.
HalleluYAH
❤🎉
Thank you for teaching
Please do more Video's
This is brilliant! Thank you so much, IIan! Clear and easy to understand.
Thank you!
This was great! I like how you broke it down using simple words. I had a thought about אֵת (et); since it is spelled with the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, it could be translated as "all". Also, if the vowel chosen for B' is traditionally "Be", but with a change to the vowel it could be "Ba", meaning "when" (this coming from a Goya, who is definitely NOT a Hebrew scholar), making the opening "When God began". This would (to me) make the beginning sound more indefinite, indicating the external nature of God. So, I encourage you to continue through the Torah. I think you could make even B'midbar and Vayikra more interesting as "Etz Hayyim Torah and Commentary" did for me. I'm just a simple Christian trying to rediscover my Jewish roots.
I read your comments with interest. I am a Muslim male from Azerbaijan. Your thoughts about et is indeed reasonable. I was confused when I read 1-1 to Jews on TikTok, they said it is not "when God began to create" but "in the beginning" in a humiliating way. The issue is that I read it from US printed Torah in 1962 which is for sure was printed by approval of Jews Publication Society of the USA. The same book had footnote where I read to them "or in the beginning". Still they were not happy with that and blamed me that as if it is even not the Torah at all. Now, however, your explanation confirms one more time that the translation as "When God began to create" has the right to exist or me be the true translation. Because when we say "in the beginning God created" we may understand God was not there before He created. But when we say "When God began to create" we can clearly understand God was there before He started to create the Earth and Heaven. Now your interpretation about et as first and last letter of Hebrew then it might indeed can be understood as "all". Well I wrote this to your goodness because I found you as a good Gentlemen. Wa Aleykum salam.
@@csurabdullayev1172 Thank you for your kind words. Peace be to you, my fellow seeker of the Holy One.
very interesting and lightening the verse also for Hebrew natives speakers
Thank you for this sir. You're explanation can easily be grasp indeed you are a great teacher.
I’m sold. You have one more subscriber.