Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Class Three

okay Shalom and welcome to beginning Biblical Hebrew I'm Ross Nichols and this is our third class together thank you so much for joining us and hoping that these classes will be beneficial for everyone who participates just wanted to start off and remind you about these handy charts that are available on our Facebook group page this particular one that I'm now holding represents lesson number one in Lesson number one we talked about the Hebrew letters and you'll notice on the chart if you haven't taken the time to download these yet I would highly encourage you to do so because if you download these charts that I will be talking about this evening you will not need to purchase anything or look around on the web hopefully these will be sufficient but if you'll notice in the Hebrew letter chart this is what we covered in class 1 we went over the number of the letters there are 22 letters in the Hebrew all estate we covered based on this particular form we covered the names of the Hebrew letters the forms the English approximation as well as certain special considerations of characteristics concerning the Hebrew letters that you would need to know so if you don't have this chart please go to our Facebook group page and download these they're also available on our website at United Israel dot o-r-g that was lesson 1 hopefully you have mastered that but if you haven't no problem you're welcome to audit this class you can go back and watch the videos that your convenience as many times as you'd like and they'll be just as good or just as bad as they were the first time you watch because we won't change those they're up there for good they're up there for your good the second class that we covered in lesson 2 was the Hebrew vowel sounds the Hebrew vowel sounds this chart is the second chart that is of available on our Facebook group page and this basically covers what we call full vowels full vowels as opposed to half vowels which we'll begin to talk about in this evenings class but just like on the hebrew allah fait chart we have similar columns on the hebrew vowel sounds you'll notice that we have the hebrew name of the letter which you'll learn how to read very shortly if you've not already mastered this the names of the letters represented in transliterated form which means that they're spelled the names of the letters are spelled with english letters and then you'll notice the next column indicates whether or not the vowel sound is a long or a short now one of the things we'll be talking about that a little bit more later because it's very important that you memorize that you learn whether a particular hebrew vowel sound is long or short now one other thing i noticed because i saw various notes on the facebook group pages there was a little bit of confusion I might not have explained very well if you notice in the column on the Hebrew vowel sounds chart the form column I have represented on my magic board here what you see in the first block on the Hebrew vowel sounds chart you'll see a Hebrew letter Aleph and you will notice that there is a comet's located under the olives and notice that our chart represents what you see on the board the Hebrew letter is in black the vowel sound is in red now the only reason that I put an olive there was just as a placeholder so that you could see where you will find the vowel sound located in a printed text so I could technically I could use another letter here I could put just I'm just going to grab this out of here I could put the Hebrew letter vive but the point was I wanted to use a letter so that you could see the placement of the vowels so hopefully that answers the question that I saw on the Facebook group page and now you're good to go so you are probably as excited to get into class 3 as I am to bring you into class 3 so here we go I want to start back with the chart that you should have in your hand at this point and I just want to make a couple of points again everything that you see here these are going to be called full vowels full vowels and as I started off the class in my introductory comments by the end of the class you'll be introduced to what we call half vowels but only barely in other words we're going to get into this more over the next week and by that point hopefully I will have another chart for you but I just didn't want to put it up too early because I know that there are quite a few people who are just beginning to get traction in understanding what they're looking at and I didn't want to burden you at this point so stay tuned for that now as I look at my chart my Hebrew vowel sound chart again look at the column that says long or short it's located about four five one two three four five columns in you'll need to know whether a vowel is long or short you'll need to be able to distinguish between these two at a later point I'm not so concerned with this and the immediate future but as we get into further classes beyond this initial five class series you'll begin to notice and you'll begin to know that you have to know that to distinguish between long and short because it becomes essential when we're talking about the formation of certain nouns and verbs so don't get so hung up like in English we think well a long vowel makes this sound a short vowel makes this sound don't get so hung up on that if if we say in the chart that a vowel sound is long I want you to get that down and memorize it you can make flashcards I've noticed that quite a few of our fellow students are very very helpful in their finding apps and other things on the web that can help you memorize these letters the similar looking letters these vowel sounds and the names and all of that stuff so by the way thank you for all the help many of you are doing a fantastic job on on the Facebook group helping me to facilitate that now one other thing on this chart if we look at our Hebrew vowel sounds chart you're going to notice that there are four instances where not only do I have the letter olive but also have the letter Y ode the letter Y ode and I'm going to put that up here and I want you to think about let me move this out of the way and I want you to notice those four columns actually two of them have the Y owed and two of them have the vive so I'm going to I think I'll go ahead and demonstrate both of these at once so that you're looking at what I am talking about on the chart you notice that we have a say ray yo'd I'm going to replicate that for you here fact when we move this over here okay this is called a say ray yodh notice if if you look at the column if I don't have the Y owed and I just have these two dots side-by-side then that's going to be it's a ray if I put the ODE it's it's area okay notice that both of those are a long sound a long vowel okay now if you look down you will also see this in your chart this is called the Herrick yodh okay and if you notice on the chart this is a long vowel sound I have to go through some of this tonight so bear with me if you take the yo'd out it's a Herrick and it is a short sound we're going to be talking about this so did you notice that the only thing I did to match what we did to replicate what we have on our chart is I put this array to make a sera yo'd remember the aaalac is just to be a placeholder and if I put the carrick on it's a carrot okay so you'll you'll see that now if you look down you will also see a couple that employ the valve all right I'm going to slide this down just a little bit so that it is visible for you notice that I have the olive which is just a placeholder here for my vowel to demonstrate where that would be placed if I place this over the valve it represents a look at your chart see that it represents a Holum Bob a holem valve this does this is our placeholder all right you see that on the chart now if you see this in the center of the valve look at your chart you'll see that that is a Sharik asuric and you can see the ciated sound the English approximation with these now one of the things that I want to point out tonight as we begin our discussion of the Hebrew vowel sounds a little bit further into this then we got last week is that when you look at these particular vowel sounds you see how easy it is to distinguish if you look at the chart and you look what's on the board it's fairly simple to tell what we're talking about now last week we discussed something that's very important for this class this week everything builds one upon the next if you remember in last week's we talked about the transmission of the text bringing it faithfully from generation to generation and that the vowel sounds were originally designed so that we don't lengthen the text if you recall when I talked about the scribes in Hebrew the word so fair is one who counts so we're not allowed remember in class two we're not allowed to add to or take away from the text so there is this very strict system of rules that the scribes would follow to ensure that we don't add to in terms of adding any consonants to the text right now one of the things that I wanted to do so that you can take a breath before we get into a little bit more depth as we work through tonight's class is take a moment and talk a little bit more about the scribes and how they ensured that the text was accurate from one generation to the next from one copy to the next copy to the next copy throughout the ages now according to what I've told you about scribes being those who count there are notes associated with the measure etic text of a Hebrew Bible that are quite fun and interesting so this is just a bit bit of information for you you can put in your notes that I think is quite interesting if you're a person if you're a scribe and you're one who counts very faithfully all the letters of the Hebrew Bible you'll notice that according to the notes the center verse in all the Torah the Torah represents the five books of Moses according to the measure eats this faithful group of scribes the center of the Torah the center verse notice I'm going to hold my Torah so that you can see that it's roughly even in this with any introductory comments and so forth this is the halfway point it comes to us at Leviticus chapter eight verse eight so just for your information the center verse of the Torah reads and says this Leviticus eight eight and he set the breastplate on him and put the room and the two mean into the breastplate now if you were looking at the Hebrew in a standard Orthodox text you would see the note from the measure eats which says this is the centre verse in the Torah so put that in your notes now what about the center word the center word in the Torah comes to us it's found in Leviticus chapter 10 in other words if you counted all the words in the Hebrew Bible the next question would be would you think there would be an even number or an odd number I'll give you a couple of moments you'll have to be honest with yourself I want you to make a determination if the Torah is holy and just and perfect we did have an even number an odd number write your answer down it has an even number an even number of words according to the measure eats and if you were to find the sinner therefore and there an even number of words what would you find would you find a one word or two well you would think write your answer down it's kind of a trick question because the center of the Torah if it's an even number would have two words but it just so happens that it is the same word repeated so in Hebrew one of the ways that they indicate the superlative is to duplicate a word to indicate stress so for instance instead of saying diligently seek one would say seek seek you would repeat the word for emphasis so the center word of the Torah in this case the two words that make up the center of the Torah comes from Leviticus chapter 10 and verse 16 and it says and Moses inquired diligently see they put the word inquired in the word inquired is there but diligently is generally supplied because it indicates a sincere seeking and Moses inquire diligently about the goat of the sin offering and here it was burnt and he was angry at Eliezer at it Tamar ended it tomorrow Aaron's sons who were left saying and then we go into verse 17 so if you're looking for the center word now the reason we know this again is because the scribes are those who count and they faithfully counted and determined that this is the center but it gets even better than that you'll be able to win a trivia contest with some of these people if you're paying attention if you wanted to know but Ross we now know the center verse and we know the center word but what's the center letter of all the Torah and that's found in Leviticus chapter 11 and verse 42 11:42 says the following everything going on a belly and everything going on for as well as everything having a great number of legs of every swarming creature that swarms on the earth you shall not eat them because they are a detestable thing within this verse in the original Hebrew the word belly has the hebrew letter v' of within it and the center letter of the Torah according to the scribes who Celt is found in Leviticus chapter 11 verse 42 in the word cone which means belly so there you have it a little bit of fun trivia and we're talking about the accuracy of the text and those are the things that that I wanted you to get at this particular point now I will get notes from time to time where people are saying that the audio or the video we might have difficulties generally when the class's uploaded those difficulties are gone it's it's sometimes on this end it sometimes on that end but if it is too difficult to bear log in very soon and you will see it once it is completely uploaded now so here's the point whether a text is pointed with vowel points such as you see on the chart or whether it's unpainted as the scroll that we showed you in a previous class the number of the letters should remain the same so the vowel system that was designed has to be indicated in such a way as to not add to the number of the letters because that is one of the tests to make sure that we are faithfully bringing it throughout the generations this means to us that the thing that I demonstrated at the beginning that the valves in the colum love and the Sharik and the Y ODEs in the Sarah yodh and the Herrick yodh were already present in the context of the Hebrew Scriptures if that makes sense in other words before the system of vowel points these dots and dashes that I am demonstrating for you before these were added to the text these vowels which are indicated with a yo door evolve those letters were already in the text this these would be what we discussed in class too as mothers of reading okay now there are words that are are sometimes spelled with the mother of reading and those are called full full spellings and at other times the same word of the same name is spelled without I'm going to demonstrate this so that it makes sense and I have to cover this at this point so that as you begin to read the Hebrew and you begin to see these kind of things this is imperative to get this is important for you to understand so that you don't get thrown off with this so most of us know of the great King David in the Bible okay we know David d-a-v-i-d in English and if you will remember the previous teachings when I'm representing in English letters a Hebrew word this would be called transliteration it's taking a word that's in one language and representing that word with the letters of another language so what I want to do I want to tell you that the name David according to the Hebrew Bible if you do a search for the number of times it occurs you find that David I'm going to pronounce it more biblically correct very soon you'll see that David is used 930 times in the Hebrew Bible 930 times in the Hebrew Bible and I am going to pull out the necessary letters okay I won't be needing the olive now we'll have to make a few spelling changes today so we're going to represent the name David notice I'm going to transliterate so Hebrew is right-to-left transliteration in English is left to right okay so this represents the D sound okay everybody see that so you can connect those two and then I will use this Hebrew letter now how many of you know what this particular letter is look at your chart one second stay with me going to pull up a Hebrew text so that I can look at a couple of things quickly technical difficulties please stand by a excuse me the Hebrew teacher put the wrong letter up all right so that is what happens sometimes all right that's what I wanted to check I did that just off the top and miss that so just delete that whole video all right so we have in this particular in this particular spelling we have I'm going to spread this out a little bit so that you can see and then this represents the consonants of the name so I'll underline those with my red marker if I can fund it and one second so remember this would go here the V sound and the D sound if everyone can follow that now this particular spelling of the name would be called remember we're talking about sometimes it is spelled with the mother of reading with the vowel letter in the word and sometimes not the name David occurs again 930 times many times in this particular form here but in 246 occurrences I'm going to put this letter ends so that you can see in 246 you'll see the yo'd the yo'd okay so I'm going to scroll down here and look at this now in the spelling of the name you'll notice that this particular spelling of the name you'll see that it's spelled with notice the letter and then the vowel now pick up your chart your vowel chart and determine what all sound this is here can you see that on your chart alright giving you a couple of moments now we have this vowel sound and the way that we're going to read this is you know that this makes the D sound you know that this is aa so you have da we know that this represents our V sound and this if you look at your chart is what Val the here ik y owed the Heric yodh and it makes the e so it's dahveed dahveed now if I spell it like the Hebrew Bible does quite often without the yo'd it's spelled in this way and it still pronounced the same it's David okay now 246 of the 930 same name spell it in this fashion now the reason that I bring that up is because as you work through the Hebrew Bible you'll notice at times that you'll see a different spelling in fact this occurs not just with the name David with the name Jerusalem with the place name Jerusalem you will see it sometimes spelled with a good a Yoda and then sometimes you'll see it spelled without now I'm going to spell one other word assuming that my spelling I know that people think that's real funny but assuming that I can spell this correctly I think I'll look this time what we're going to do is I'm going to spell a word that some of you know the English word for it but you might not know the Hebrew but it is a fairly common word and so you might know it in Hebrew as well alright so we're going to spell I'm going to put it up on the board so that you can see it make sure that that sticks alright now take this out of the way for a moment now these are demonstrating what I wanted to do is to demonstrate for you variations in spelling but different ways to spell the same word okay this particular word all we have at this point are the consonants of the word and so I'm going to put some vowel points here what vowel is that look at your chart and identify that please and you see the word all right so we know that this makes what sound an ah sound so we have kha this is the equivalent of the English approximation of the letter D the D sound this is the dahle --it and this will give it the O sound because we're talking about a Holum okay and then this is our Hebrew letter Xin which represents SH so if you put this together the word that we are looking at here it's a holy word the word is kadosh kadosh kadosh means what in english how is it generally translated it's generally translated by the english word holy the english word holy so this is Kadosh now there are times I'll give you an example of this particular spelling if you go in your Bible to Deuteronomy chapter 26 Deuteronomy 26 I just want you some of you who have already purchased a Hebrew Bible and if you haven't don't don't do it if you don't have the money but I'll recommend some so that you when I give these examples whether it's the center word of the center letter you can begin to mark those things but in Deuteronomy chapter 26 verse 19 26:19 see this is I have to find this I'll have to do another search I'll write down the wrong passage I apologize for that I'll post it on our Facebook page what I was looking for is a particular passage I know what it is I think that the numbering is different one second okay here we go in Deuteronomy 26 19 and it says we'll start in verse 18 and the Lord this is God's name proclaimed you today to be a treasured people to him as he spoke to you and to observe all his Commandments and there here's verse 19 and to set you high above all the nations that is made in praise and name and beauty for you to be a holy people to as the Jewish people would say Hashem your God this is God's name your God as he spoke so in this particular passage in Deuteronomy 26:19 the people of Israel are told that they are to be a Kadosh people a holy people and the spelling is as I have it here on the board now there is a different spelling this spelling would be called defective because it's not spell with the fullness meaning it doesn't have the mother of reading in it now I'll give you an example if you go to Exodus chapter 19 in Exodus chapter 19 this is another passage about the people of Israel in Exodus chapter 19 and it says in verse 6 you will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to me a Kadosh a holy nation but in this particular passage we have the spelling that is full in other words this particular spelling has the Evolve in it as such Kadosh Kadosh and you can look these up this is Exodus chapter 19 in verse 6 same spelling basically and are the same pronunciation but notice sometimes it's spelled with the valve sometimes it's spelled without it's pronounced the same way now there's one other thing that I want to demonstrate for you when it comes to this particular spelling and this particular use of the vowels we're going to be talking particularly about the the vowel on your vowel chart look at your vowel chart the Hebrew vowel sound of long o you can find that is represented two ways it's either represented as with the column as I have here just the single diacritical mark the single dot if you will and it can also be represented with a Hebrew letter v' of with the mark it's is same the same pronunciation either just the dot or with the valve see right so in the case with the Bob it's called a Coulomb valve without it's simply called a Coulomb now the reason that I want to talk to you about this is that there are times I'm going to show you an example where a very common word you think of an example okay let's see put these up say that they don't get confusing I notice by the way in the last class that I left a word up and I was talking about something else with that word still showing and I thought wow that's I might confuse someone so I'm going to try to keep the board clear as I change examples so that I don't confuse people okay now some of you have heard of the man named Moses we're going to talk about Moses for a moment and I'm going to show you something about the spelling of Moses's name now remember with david with the name david even though we say in english David in Hebrews dahveed but but with the name Moses it's a little bit different because David David is transliterated fairly accurately if you look at the Hebrew and you look at the spelling it's easy to connect the two in the case of Moses the case of Moses his name in Hebrew is mâche so you have a mem you have a seen and you have a hey now you in the second syllable Shay that's represented in Hebrew these would be good examples for you to see how it's pronounced moshe night so we see here that we've got look at your vowel chart hebrew vowel chart and see if you can find this particular hebrew letter all right you'll see that it is an e sound alright now here's the question if i told you that this says ma che where is our vowel you could do it like this you could write it like that because we know it's a long Oh we know that a Holum is going to give us that sound but it's not indicated here but what if I told you that that is and does say Moshe now there is something that I wanted to show you today in this class because it's something that we'll be talking about as we work through some various examples you'll see it from time and again there's no colum currently up here but I just told you that it does say motion let me tell you what notice that the diacritical mark over the Hebrew letter Xin alright this is always on a sheen but whenever at times in a printed text you could do it like this but there are times where this Holum coalescence it combines and and serves in two purposes it serves as the Holum making the o sound and it also serves its original purpose on machine i'm not trying to confuse i just want to show you this particular thing that can happen so what this means is it's called coalescing whenever these combine now in English here's what that means in very simple language it means that one dot can serve two purposes that one dot can serve as an indicator that that's a sheen and not a scene but it can also indicate the long o sound of the Holum all right so that's perfectly acceptable you might see that in the Bible and as we work through various examples later and you won't say well there's no vowel how it what do I do here the same thing can happen whenever let me think of an example where the Holum follows a scene okay remember the the letter scene has the the diacritical mark on the other side see how this is here so if i if i have this example let's see and make sure I'm not off the camera here okay now this particular word I'm going to put us a vowel couple of vowels up in just a moment and I'll make the same point just like the letter Xin would coalesce with the vowel colum it can also happen here right if us you send a theory in Hebrew the word for enemy is sown a and this diacritical mark I could have the whole 'm here but in this example as before this coalesce is and becomes 11.1 diacritical mark serves two purposes it indicates that this is a sin and not a sheen and it represents the whole 'm in the word so next now does that make sense all right now i promise you that if you read this in a grammar book it might be a little bit more complicated i've tried to take that concept and just make it as simple as I can and in the process hopefully not nest anyone up to move my bowels over here we've got some more examples to go through and okay how's everyone tonight plea we're all doing well okay now so far we have covered the vowels fairly we fairly might we pretty much have covered everything on our vowel charts and the previous week we covered the letters so now we're going to begin a journey into what we call half vowels and I intend to cover some basic rules related to these half vowels as simplified as I can and I'm going to only introduce you to one this week because I think by the time I get through this particular part we will have covered enough for you to have to think about and digest and watch it a couple of times alright so we're going to talk today about the half vowel called a Shiva we're going to specifically we're going to be talking about the we're going to be talking about the vocal Shiva now when I say vocal Shiva you ought to be thinking I wonder why it's called the vocal does that mean that there is a silent there is a silent shiva you did an excellent job picking up on that but we're not talking about that tonight we're going to talk about the vocal shiva we are talking about that in the context of half vowels and so we're going to call the Shyvana I'm going to put it up on the board I'm going to use a Hebrew letter just as a placeholder and I will put the Shiva underneath it notice it looks like a colon in Inge whereas we would see it on the line with the text in English in Hebrew this half vowel the vocal Shiva is going to be located underneath the line okay so this is what we're talking about now I'm going to make a few points about it now put this in your notes that this Shiva it can only be under none guttural letters now look at your chart I'm not going to put these on the board but I want you to get your Hebrew letter chart out and if you notice in one of the blue columns you'll see guttural so let's look at the guttural letters you see that alice is a guttural can be classified you have hey you have pet you have a n and sometimes resh those letters that I just covered the gutturals you won't find the vocal Shiva under those letters so it's just one of the points that we're going to be talking more about in future classes okay now here's what we need to know the Shiva the vocal Shiva can be found at the beginning of a word or at the beginning of a syllable within a word now we're going I'm trying to bring you to the point where we start working on syllables once we have some basics that I've covered in classes one too and tonight in three because a lot of times in these grammar books I think that they introduce us to the syllables a little bit too early I know for me it was kind of difficult because when I started studying Hebrew I was unknown I didn't have you know a teacher to help me through some of the tougher spots and I remember reading things in the grammar books about making syllables and they would introduce things that I didn't even know yet and they would say we're going to talk about this later and you know but then they would introduce me to too much so just know that a vocal Shiva is found at the beginning of a word or at the beginning of a syllable within a word now when it's vocals when it's vocal which is all we're talking about tonight it makes a short quick abbreviated sound okay almost like a hurried sound so I'm going to spell a word to show you to give you an example of a word that employs our vocal Shiva okay hold up there buddy all right so if you notice we've got the vocal Shiva which it goes here under the Hebrew letter Beit very good now we're going to move into the resh you see the rest and then we have the Y ode and the top now to make this spell the word that I want to indicate we are going to put look at your vowel chart and see what that dot is under the race this particular word in Hebrew and you'll notice that I'm going to pronounce this for you it gives the sound buried buried alright and it's actually more hurried than that so it almost sounds like I'm going to write it in English I will transliterate this it's hurried to the point that when you hear a native speaker it's almost breathe breathe but notice it's a very faint beau REIT but you don't say it like boa it's more hurried I'll give you an example in English we would say banana banana if you were spelling banana and utilizing this point it's almost like that first syllable the buck would have a vocal shiva also in the English word if we say severe to severe burn it's sort of a quick hurried that's the idea okay so you get the point now some of you have been in and around Judaism and keeping Shabbat and you might do the blessings and you know that the blessing over the one it talks about pre hug often okay free I won't spell it out but it's it's very similar we have the vocal Shiva in that case well I mean that doesn't take long let's go ahead and show you that as well because some of you might be able to pick this up if you haven't before in a prayer book and you'll be so happy that you did so let me pull out my what letter do you think it would be to make the P sound okay now this particular word it's free free and what does it mean it has to do with fruit so this is that particular word but again it's sort of a hurried sound you don't say hurry you would you would spell it almost if you're transliterating like this free you can hear it but it's very short it's quick it's abbreviated that gives us a couple of examples now one of the things that I want you to know is that every journey begins with a first step so if I'm going to spell a word on my magic board here and I want you to begin to look at this as I do it and see if you can sound it out don't worry if you can't you will have so much practice in this in the coming weeks you'll get quite proficient at it I assure you okay okay now we have our consonants now this is a pretty big word see if some of you already know this that doesn't go there send the right valves here these are very handy and I'm glad that my friend Kevin put these together free of charge for us isn't that nice and and one more sure I'll spell it right you like well no wonder now you something didn't look right okay you look at this word this is the very first word in the Hebrew Bible and it represents when you see this in the text notice this is our same sound that we made earlier when we talked about buried but this here this is the bait so you're going to have the B sound it's got the vocal Shiva so you're going to say Bray Bray sheep Bray sheet now this actually coalescence with the olive so this is one syllable it's Bray sheep in Hebrew this particular word is translated in most English Bibles in the beginning in the beginning bere she is translated in the beginning literally it's more accurate I think to say in beginning or in getting started by she bore I lo keem that I should main bath hearts in beginning God created the heavens and the earth well this is the very first word and in it just to make the point the very first vowel sound that you hear in the Hebrew Bible is the vocal shiva now just to give you just something to close this out for the evening I wanted to bring up a couple of points this being the very first word in the Hebrew Bible Bracy it's also the name of the first book of the Torah according to Hebrew speakers according to the Jewish people according to those who follow a more Judaic or Hebraic approach to scripture the first book is called Bracy and English most English Bibles as you know the first book is called Genesis and that comes from the Greek Guinness eeeh but Genesis in Greek means beginning like a new Genesis beginning so in this case in the Hebrew Bible the first book is called beret Shi which means in beginning and according to the Greek and according to most English Bibles it also means now in Hebrew though the second book of the Bible which most English Bibles referred to as Exodus in Hebrew the the Bible the second book is called shamoto which means names and it begins these are the names of the children of Israel so it's it's named after and the Bible books are named according to the Torah the Torah books are named after a significant word that occurs early in that book and if you recall if you read the book of Shimoda the book of Exodus you will find that it begins with the naming of the various children of Israel the other hand the English book of Exodus in English Bibles Exodus has to do with the departure now the story does have to do at least in the initial phase with the exodus of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt okay now when you get to the tores third book it's called in Hebrew Vayikra vicryl means and he called and he called in English Bibles the third book same material is called what Leviticus Leviticus is from a Greek word which you can hear it has to do with pertaining to the Levites but in Hebrew the book is and he called and it deals with God calling Anna Moses the fourth book of the Torah this is just to illustrate the naming the reason that the books are named as they are in the fourth book it's called bombing var in Hebrew and bombing bar means in the wilderness bombing bar in the wilderness in the English Bibles it's called numbers fourth book is called numbers because it begins with all the numbering and so forth the counting of the count of the number of the children of Israel and so forth and then finally the fifth book of the Torah in Hebrew is called Devarim and it means words and the English name of the fifth book of the Torah is called Deuteronomy which comes from a combination of two Greek words deutero Nomos which means second law and that particular name came to be associated with Deuteronomy because of a misunderstanding based on Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse 18 so think about those things Bure see our very first word in the Hebrew Bible begins with the vowel sound that we finished up with tonight it is a half vowel and again it's called the volkl Chava think that this gives us enough material for one week and I'll be happy to monitor things off and on on the Facebook group page so please if you need some help ask those questions we have wonderful people that are on there that want to help that are quite proficient at Hebrew and can help you if you get stuck again look at some of these recommendations that folks are posting up because some of the things that people are posting in the group are great apps great different ways to learn and some good methodology that will help you advance again remember the one thing that we don't want to do here is we don't want you to have to pay for anything we want this to be free of charge for you so you know you if you want to spend money on some of these things it's not a requirement from us we just want to make sure that you would answer your knowledge in Biblical Hebrew I'm looking and studying Hebrew everyday I'm trying to get better all the time and each of us can if we if we work together so thank you for joining us I look forward to next week see you on next Thursday at 7 p.m. Central Standard Time is the plan for class 4 in an introduction to Biblical Hebrew thank you very much we'll see you next week

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Published: Fri Jun 30 2017