Glad you are finding this useful. It was my privilege and pleasure to develop these videos. All the best in your studies of biblical Hebrew!

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL Sir I just came across this video today, and I just wanted to said : "Thank you" . I am grateful for your work. I would also like to learn.

@@tomokirei1944 My pleasure. I hope it helps in learning and enjoying the Tanak in Hebrew.

Is this ancient or modern Hebrew?

@@ibettch4122 I think it's modern

My pleasure. Great that you're learning biblical Hebrew!

My pleasure! על לא דבר

Thanks! My pleasure.

I'm a mom also learning with my children the language of the Holy Scriptures.

Hebrew used to be a lot more similar to Arabic in its consonants, but it got Europeanised

Repent unto Jesus Christ now and be saved from sin, death, eternal hell, and the loss of your soul! May the Holy Spirit convict you.

If hebrew language gives peace to you, the real King of the Hebrews, descendant of Abraham, can gives you infinite peace. عيسى ישוע

I just want to tell you that God Loves You, I had en enounter with Jesus Christ when COVID started, He is coming back soon. He died for us 2000 years ago so we can be made right with God, Jesus: I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life, no man comes unto The Father but thou Me. Jesus Loves You very Much Bro he is the Messiah the one Moses told about to follow to be saved!!! and as well as Daniel 7:13-14 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." May God Bless You Mark 14:62 "“I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” May God Bless You Jesus is coming back bro!!

Jesus is the only way. We have all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins that may seem small in our eyes are big in God's and are worthy of Hell, such as lying lusting and stealing. But if we repent and trust only in Jesus, he is faithful and will save us from Hell and give us eternal life in Heaven. Trust in Jesus! John 3:16 Romans 6:23❤😊

My pleasure. Glad it is helpful.

Glad it is helping.

Glad it helps.

My pleasure. Hope it is helpful.

My pleasure. Wish I had time to do more.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL there are people like me who have great desire to learn yet lazy in hands. And this is so helpful to follow. Amazing! It isnt only about source but how we make the combination!

Joseph, delighted you are learning Hebrew. It is not my voice but Abraham Shmuelof's who did these recordings many decades ago. I just slowed them down and did the video editing to add the English etc. His story is amazing and was born around 1901 in Jerusalem speaking Hebrew as a native then later became a Christian.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL Thank you so much.

My pleasure and delight!

My privilege. Hope it helps in your learning of Hebrew. Enjoy! Our God is indeed an awesome God!

Thank you too. The Lord's blessing be upon you!

Delighted it was helpful.

Same here! Very helpful, praise the Lord Jesus for this blessing!

My pleasure. Hope you find these useful for learning Hebrew and God's Word.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL Amen

Thanks! Delighted you are finding this useful in learning to read the Hebrew Bible.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL My pleasure,I would love for you to make more of these videos!,it's very helpful.

Probably best to get a good translation like the ESV, NIV or NRSV and use that as a parallel.

The Hebrew word for waters is "mayim" it usually is literal esp. in a desert culture. On another level it is sometimes used triggering concepts like "chaos, uncontrollable chaos" in certain contexts. God stills the water in the book of Job...etc.

​@@tedhildebrandt_BeLso when it says "let there be an expanse between the waters, and let it separate the waters above from the waters below", that would be a literal translation into the way we use and reference water today? Or could there be another meaning to the word used for water in this usage?

@@wesleycox7292 Generally most understand this as: waters above - sky (rain/clouds) waters below - oceans etc.

It is possible but not within investing so much time that I can't do it. Learn the alphabet it takes about 30 minutes to do. I learned it to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

My pleasure. I'm retired now so am working on this Bel (Biblicalelearning.org) stuff full time and really enjoying it. All the best!

The "V" is how modern Israeli's pronounce it and I'm following their lead in that.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL thanks. God bless you, sir.

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sefer = book; bereshit = Genesis; torah is torah (Pentateuch) He usually does the chapter number as well. Hamishah = 5 hosheh= 10 5+10=15

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL , maybe 50 because Genesis is 50 chapters?

I don't know. Abraham Smuelof's voice is out there on the Internet. I have slowed it down a little so it will be easier for my Hebrew students. Go Hillsdale!

ב You are becoming the apple 🍎 of your 👁️ for where your 👁️ Narusなる it so ...Reflects

Naru : Becoming in Japanese..

Dual Forces ie Yin ☯️ & Yang: Cold ❄️ & Hot 🔥, Light 🕯️ & Dark 🌑 , Subtle & Aggressive... Firm & Flexible or supple.. are Not the Primus Causes of Creation but merely tools which are Spun & Rhymed into motion via The catalyst of the Living Word 📜... In Diverse דברי ( Davar is the express delivery Of Word) manners. Ps unless you Weigh in that Yin ☯️ & Yang also correspond to Blood & Spirits hence Anima' Ting properties

This is Echoed in the Ancient Verses as creation recited as merely "Fractured" Elements of a Greater entity.. Ymirs "Norse" frozen & melting dripping corpus decorating the surface [ Note the Ee Mirror 🪞 ] The Formation of Ymir :{.the ice "Iss" as in (Ee uhh ss or 'eas' t) מקדמ of Niflheim met the heat "Eldrr as In a meshing of 'El'der & Alt'arr also pronounced "dur'of Muspelheim} "Old Norse r thus "Isildur" is in verse Ice & Fire 🔥 or 'Form'~ation. Viroccacha' Sweat & Tears in The Inca tales. The Powers Or Cherubim כרובימ ( to draw near in beaming 🔥) shooting to express the Word Of יהוה.

The KAMI 神: Which denotes a Spirit, hair, & or paper as in Ori"gami" (the Ga sound due to it being joined syllabically to "Unfolding" {OR as in Aurelium ) is Fold/ light) Hair because it dangles & By & by covers.. "Bacabs" (B doubles as the V' sound) cardinal point deities in Myan tongue commonly depicted on Totem poles. "KAMI" 神 the paper Because it unfolds.. by Golly! גל~ 33 🌊 "Unravel thou my 👁️ that I may behold The Living Letters!

Hope to get back to finishing Genesis in December of this year. The New Testament hasn't been used as much so I dropped doing it after 1 John and John 1-5. Each chapter takes about 3 days worth of work so it's a slow process but I need to get back to it. Thanks for your encouragement to do so. Deuteronomy and Proverbs are complete as well as 40 key Psalms and most of Exodus.

1) Trinity, or 2) divine council, or 3) royal "we" Eve is first woman made out of the rib of Adam

Had to make a choice and most, even those knowing modern Hebrew, preferred the slower moving reading. There are others who have the quicker reading of the text: vid. "Genesis 1 Hebrew Bible Interlinear" readings. The pauses allows one to catch up with the reader and ponder its meaning more.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL makes sense, thanks for the reply. I’ll look for other versions but still really like how you present yours. Blessings!

@@blakewidmer yes… it is a great presentation style

Yes, slower is better try to follow the reader. I prefer even slower yet. 😄

@@soonockshin114 Great! Glad you're getting some use out of it.

The word order in Hebrew is different than English. You don't need to put the subject, Verb, object order like in English. So In the beginning "created:Verb" God:Subject, the heavens and earth (object) comes over into English: In the beginning God created the heaven...

Yes, it is. I slowed it down some so it is easier to follow. Amazing guy born and raised in Jerusalem (born I think around 1901 in Jerusalem).

the vayomer = and he said, the subject is then specified who the "he" is = Elohim (God). You can do it either way "and God said" or one word at a time "and he said" (vayomer) + God (Elohim) either way works taking the two words together = "and God said". I ended up separating the two words going one word at a time.

You asked about the "Gimel" heading verse 3. In Hebrew the alphabet letters also double as numbers: aleph=1, beth=2, and gimel = 3 so the gimel is there to tell you it is verse 3. Thanks for the question.

Be careful using 1 John 5:7 as that is clearly a textual variant.

waw in modern Hebrew is pronounced "v" while older traditional seminary Hebrew used the "w" I prefer Modern Hebrew pronunciations but was originally taught the "Seminary" way which nobody speaks.

If so, how was the “waw” pronounced in Hebrew names like... AVraham YaaqoV DaVid AVner AVshalom Yov

@@LamatoPaqali-gc4gq Avram, David, Avner, etc. Just follow how Abraham S. pronounces it. When I was in seminary they taught us to say "w" but when I went to Israel I learned it is pronounced "v" (as the conjunction "and" etc. ) Good question

Why is the verb then 3m Singular? The word Elohim is translated in some contexts "gods" but in many contexts it is used as a plural of majesty "God" singular and the verb indicates that it is singular as do virtually all translations done by leading experts and scholars from Hebrew both Jewish and Christian (vid. NIV, KJV, ESV, NRSV, NAB, NASB, et al.).

There are many differing ways of interpreting Gen. 1 and science. Best probably to get a book on it and see The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (The Lost World Series, Volume 2) by John Walton, and The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: A Multi-Layered Approach by Gregg Davidson, and/or J. C. Colins, Reading Genesis Well: Navigating History, Poetry, Science, and Truth in Genesis 1-11. At Biblicalelearning.org there is a series of lectures by Dr. Perry Phillips on the Big Bang and Creation that are worth exploring biblicalelearning.org/kingdom-prologue-kline/ -- Enjoy -- forgot my professor's book Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth by Robert C. Newman and Perry Phillips... both Ph.D's in Astro-Physics from Cornell University and advanced degrees in the Bible.

The Bible is Genesis through Malachi which includes the Torah. The Torah is the first five books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy-written by Moses. Torah is also called the Pentateuch (Penta=5, teuch = books). The Torah is the basis of the rest of the Bible.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL Thank you

Puzzled...just checked Gen. 1:6 and it was exactly what BHS has for the Hebrew.

​@@tedhildebrandt_BeLthanks for reply. I think I made myself puzzled. Longנ in the end should be ן. The whole word should be בתון.beton=between.

Sorry, every major translation that I know into English translates Elohim as "God" (Gen. 1:1). These translations (KJV, NIV, ESV, RSV, NLT) were all done by Hebrew experts. You probably need to think about that before you take Elohim as plural. Notice also in Gen. 1:1 the verb is 3rd masculine Singular (not plural). Please learn Hebrew before critiquing.

Sorry but I already slowed this down by adding pauses. Please play at .75 speed which may help some.

When I learned the first couple of verses I kept listening to it over and over again! I also wrote down my own phonetic translation of it to remember it better!

Seriously? I lived in Israel and studied Hebrew there so I'm not sure it's way off. Most translators seem to agree with most of it. I was a translator on the NLT so I'm not crazy... maybe just a little bit. ;-)

Elohim is God. Elohim is plural because God is Trinity - three persons, one essence - equally divine and equally God, but separate.

No, I did it on purpose. The verb tells you it is singular. Elohim is translated singular, plural doesn't always mean many, sometimes plural is used to trigger the idea of majesty. Holy of Holies... The other way to check it out is to look at virtually all translations into English done by leading scholars [NIV, ESV, NRSV, NAB, NLT, KJV] all translate it singular into English as does anyone who knows Hebrew.

@@tedhildebrandt_BeL aw okey so mean like god of everything ??? He made hes self

Yes, that's it.