Old Testament- the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible Laws,Pentateuch,Torah- the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew...
Old Testament- the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible Laws,Pentateuch,Torah- the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew...
Hebrew/Greek Your ContentGenesis 1 World English Bible 1 In the beginning, God[a] created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 God said, “Let there...
The first phrase in the Hebrew text of1:1isbereshith("in [the] beginning"), which is also the Hebrew title of the book (books in ancient times customarily were named after their first word or two). The English title, Genesis, is Greek in origin and comes from the wordgeneseos,which...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. EXB ·In the beginning[orIn the beginning when]God created[C this Hebrew verb is used only when God is the one creating]the ·sky[heavens]and the earth. GNV 1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light and the dar...
Greek translators used the word as the title of the biblical book, rendering Hebrewbereshith, literally "in the beginning," which was the first word of the text, taken as its title. The extended sense of "origin, creation" is recorded in English by c. 1600. ...
narrator reading English in the foreground, word-for-word, from either the King James Version or the Revised Standard Version of The Holy Bible, both with the actors' voices speaking their dialog in the background at a lower volume and in the local Hebrew, Aramaic, and Eqyptian Coptic ...
the original, whose Hebrew is multi-layered in a way that is alien to the English lan- guage. What a scientist calls a “re- reading” may be an example of a time-honored hermeneutic endemic to Hebrew, generously indulged long before Galileo, ...
Genesis (Sept. Γένεσις, generation), the first book of the Law or the Pentateuch, is in Hebrew called כּיֵץשּׁית, Bereshith', from the word with which it be. gins. SEE LAW. I. General Character.— The book of Genesis has an interest and an...
and let Canaan be his servant." 28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.29All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died. Footnotes: a.Verse 7:In Hebrewyouis plural b.Verse 19:Orfrom these the whole earth was populated c.Verse 20:OrNoah, a man of the soil, was the first to...