Hebrew An Introduction to the Language

Introduction to Ancient Hebrew

(Zaqan = Ancient; Ibaryath= Hebrew language)

 

 

 

 

Some of you might ask "where does the word Hebrew actually come from" and "where is the first instance in which the word Hebrew is actually found in the Bible?" Here is the answer:


When you go to the book of Genesis 10:21, you will see that it mentions the name Eber:

Genesis 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

The name Hebrew is a miss pronunciation of the name Eber (pass, cross over). At one point in time, all nations of the earth spoke one language (that language being Hebrew.)

Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

According to the book of Jubilees1, the language of Hebrew is the language used in the heavens and was considered the language of creation (Jubilees 12:24-28).

 

This language was given to the first man Adam and was eventually passed down through Adam's chosen lineage starting with Seth.

It was eventually was passed down to Eber; through which the name Hebrew derives. Eber passed it down to his son Peleg (division).

During the time of Peleg, the languages were divided. Yet, Peleg preserved the language and passed it down to his son Reu.

Note:

The book of Jubilees was one of the many books that were revealed to Moses during his 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai (2Edras 14:1-6). Moses was commanded to declare some things to all; and some things were to be hidden. The "secrets of times" in 2Edras 14 is a direct reference to the book of Jubilees.



Genesis 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Note:

 

When the Most High perceived what the multitude was attempting to accomplish, He sent forth His angels to confuse the languages of people. Soon after the confusion of the tongues, the nations were scattered throughout the earth. Each individual migrated to their particular region according to their tongue:

Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.


Note:

 

Even though the tongues were split, the same beliefs, worships, and mindset to one day fight against the Most High made its way to each region in which these nations migrated. The tongues were originally split into 70 different languages. This fact is document in both the Book of Jasher and the Testament of Naphtali

Testament of Naphtali 8:3-6:

And do not forget the Lord your God, the God of your fathers; Who was chosen by our father Abraham when the nations were divided in the time of Phaleg.

For at that time the Lord, blessed be He, came down from His highest heavens, and brought down with Him seventy ministering angels, Michael at their head.

He commanded them to teach the seventy families which sprang from the loins of Noah seventy languages.

Forthwith the angels descended and did according to the command of their Creator.

But the Holy language, the Hebrew language, remained only in the house of Shem and Eber, and in the house of Abraham our father, who is one of their descendants.

Note:

 

Those who were of the chosen lineage were able to preserve the language from generation to generation. The chosen lineage from Shem to Abraham can be found in Genesis the 11th chapter and 1Chronicles 1:24-27:


Genesis 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Genesis 11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

Genesis 11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

Genesis 11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Genesis 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

Genesis 11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug

Genesis 11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Genesis 11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Genesis 11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

1Chronicles 1:24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

1Chronicles 1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah

1Chronicles 1:27 Abram; the same is Abraham.

The Changes of the Script and Dialect:

 

There are two forms of the Hebrew language that you should study and use.

The first is what you call the Ancient Phoenician script (also known as Paleo or Proto Hebrew).

This particular form of Hebrew writing used up until the Babylonian Exile during the 6th century BC.

Those who were exiled into Babylon eventually started using what is called the Assyrian script, while those who remained in the land of Judea continued to use the Phoenician script.

This leads to the next script of Hebrew  which is called the Assyrian script (also known as the Ezra script).

I prefer that everyone first learn the Assyrian script first, simply, because all of the sources use today (JPS Torah-Tanahk, Strong's Concordance, etc) are written in Assyrian Hebrew.

When a lot of us are first introduced into the understanding of being an Israelite, one of the first things we try to do is learn the language of our forefathers.

The problem is, the true Hebrew language is not being taught anywhere within our traditional institutions of learning.

The Hebrew that's being taught within our institutions is not the Ancient Hebrew that was spoken by Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, etc.

The language that is being spoken today is what is called YIDDISH; which is a combination of Hebrew, German, Latin, Cyrillic, and Coptic tongues.

In a book titled, The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler, he gives some key history when it comes to the language of YIDDISH:

Note:

Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian born Jewish historian born September 5 1905 and died mysteriously on March 3 1983. In his book The 13th Tribe (1976), he proved that the Ashkenazi Jewish factions of Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany were not descendants of the true biblical Israelites; but were the descendants of the Khazarian converts of the Khazarian Empire (7th – 10th century AD).

"YIDDISH is a curious amalgam of Hebrew, mediaeval German, Slavonic and other elements, written in Hebrew characters." Pg 172.

The only thing Hebrew about the language of Jewish people in Israel is the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. The language itself can be considered jargon and has nothing to do with the true language of the Hebrews.

This fact is documented in the Zondervan Bible Dictionary:

Bible (subtitle: Languages):

"The ancient Hebrew text consisted only of consonants, since the Hebrew alphabet had no written vowels. Vowel sings were invented by the JEWISH Masoretic scholars in the sixth century and later."

Though Zondervan gives the information of how the Masoretes injected the vowel points, I will show you the information on why the Masoretes chose to do so. You will find out that before the JEWISH people resurfaced as the Masoretes (during the same time of the Khazar Empire), they were already established in as the Greeks.

When you examine the Language of Hebrew (which is synonymous with the Phoenician tongue or dialect) you will notice that there are no vowels with the exception of the letter I (Hence; the vowel sounds a, e, o, u do not exist).

The Phoenician tongue is considered what is called an Abjad language (a language that is only represented by consonants without any vowels).

For example, AH, BA, GA, DA, etc. are examples of consonants without vowels.

When the Greeks received the ancient Phoenician language in the 9th century B.C., they added the influence of vowels on the Phoenician tongue (this was even before the Masoretes of the 6th century; this method resurged during the time of the Masoretes to show you the connection between the Greeks and the modern day JEWISH nation).

During this period, the Greeks took their language which descended from Latin, Cyrillic, and Coptic and started intermingling their language with the Phoenician/Hebrew language.

In fact, when you examine the Greek language, you can see the Phoenician influence along with addition of the insertion of vowel points.

For example, AH is switch to Alpha, BA is switched to Beta, GA is switched to Gamma, KA is switched to Kappa, so on and so forth. Does this look familiar?

You will notice that this form of the Phoenician combined with the Greek is very similar to the YIDDISH or the modern-day Hebrew that is used widely today and is accepted as the official language of Hebrew.

In fact, you will find out that this mixture of the Greek and Phoenician language was resurfaced when JEWISH factions like the Masoretes were set up during between the 6th-11th centuries and started adding themselves into the history of the true Jews.

I will attempt to show you the correlation between the Phoenician, Greek, and Modern Hebrew or YIDDISH language.

I've already showed you how the Phoenician was rendered with the Greeks addition of the vowel points.

Now it's time to examine the change from the Greek language over into the YIDDISH language:


It went from the original AH to the Greek modification Alpha into the YIDDISH pronunciation of Aleph; BA was changed to Beta and in YIDDISH became Bet; GA was switched to Gamma into Gimel, KA was switched to Kappa into Kap, and so on and so forth. You can do the rest of the comparisons on your own time.

As you can see, the modern-Hebrew that's accepted today by the JEWISH factions and so called Bible scholars is nothing more than a mixture of the Ancient Phoenician dialect rendered with the Greek language which brought forth the use of vowel points.


Note:

The book of Jasher chapter 61 explains how Zepho, grandson of Esau, fled into the land of Kittim (Chittim) and was made king of Kittim and Italy for 50 years. They did so by taking down the original inhabitants who were the children of Japheth; who according to the Bible are the Asian nations.

Before I go any further, I will attempt to show you that the Phoenician Dialect was the language that was used by the children of Israel.

One of the easiest ways to show this is by the examination of ancient coins and artifacts that are found in the land of Israel. When you look these ancient artifacts, you will see the ancient Hebrew inscriptions without any vowel points whatsoever.

The question is, if there were no vowel points, then how were these words being pronounced?


It could not have been any E, U, or O sounds.

Also, when you examine some of the commentaries within the Pseudipigrapha of the Old Testament, you will find excerpts from ancient fragments that contain Hebrew words without vowel points.

Another way to find out is within the Book of Josephus: Flavius Josephus against Apion Book 1paragraph 22, it lets you know that a writer and poet during the time of king Xerses wrote of a people that dwelt in the Solymean Mountains that were of dark skin complexion, and spoke the Phoenician dialect. Josephus later goes on to confirm that these were in fact the children of Israel:
This therefore is what Herodotus says, that "the Syrians that are in Palestine are circumcised." But there are no inhabitants of Palestine that are circumcised excepting the Jews; and therefore it must be his knowledge of them Cherilus also, a still that enabled him to speak so much concerning them. makes mention of our nation, and informs us (16)ancient writer, and a poet, that it came to the assistance of king Xerxes, in his expedition against Greece.

For last of all inserts ours among the rest, in his enumeration of all those nations, he when he says,"

At the last there passed over a people, wonderful to be beheld; for they spake the Phoenician tongue with their mouths; they dwelt in the they had round Solymean mountains, near a broad lake: their heads were sooty; heads also, that had -rasures on them; their heads and faces were like nasty horsebeen hardened in the smoke."

I think, therefore, that it is evident to everybody that Cherilus means us, because the Solymean mountains are in our country, ; for this is a broader and wherein we inhabit, as is also the lake called Asphaltitis; for this is a broader and larger lake than any other that is in Syria: and thus does Cherilus make mention of us.

This is more proof that the Phoenician dialect was used by the Israelites. To set the record straight, the true language of the Hebrews contain no vowel sounds whatsoever (with the exception of the Hebrew letter I).

Note:Flavius Josephus was an Israelite historian during the 1st century AD who documented the fall of Jerusalem by the hands of the Romans. He was born into a royal and priestly lineage. Josephus was taken prisoner in 67 AD by Roman General Vespasian. Josephus's imprisonment is what allowed him to record the takedown of Jerusalem

Note:The sons of Noah frayed from the knowledge that was given to them by their father. Only Noah’s son Shem stayed true to the Most High’s teachings.

From Shem, the knowledge was then passed down to Eber.

As I've stated above, it was from Eber that the term Hebrew derived from. I also stated that the name Eber comes from the Hebrew word Ibar which means from the past.

Why is this so?


Because the same teachings, customs, language, culture that Eber followed was the same exact practices and language that was passed down from his father Shem.

Shem learned them from his father Noah. Noah learned them from the records of his great grandfather Enoch.

Enoch learned them from his father and great grandfather Jared and Mahalaleel.

Jared and Mahalaleel learned from their fathers Cainan and Seth.

Seth learned them from his father Adam.

Do you see the pattern?


This shows us the direct connection from Adam all the way down to Eber.

Therefore, there is no question as to who would hold the true teachings in the earth.

From Eber they were passed down to Abraham, from Abraham to Isaac, and from Isaac to Jacob.

Jacob then taught these practices along with the records and language to his 12 sons.

From one of his 12 sons whose name was Levi came Moses.

Moses was responsible for taking all of the records of his forefathers, starting with Adam all the way down to his present time.


Not to mention the fact that he also received the record of how the earth was created.

So in essence, our history begins with the Most High AHAYAH and the Creation of the Earth, NOT Adam.

Now we can clearly see that without out a shadow of doubt, that the records of the Bible, starting from the five books of Moses, all the way to the book of Revelations was inspired NOT by the stories of the heathen.

But instead, they were inspired by the writings, practices and customs of our forefathers; starting first with Adam, all the way down to Jacob.

We can now conclude that the Bible is not a plagiarism.


Now that you have an understanding of the true dialect, now you can start practicing the language yourselves.






Shalawam!