Keywords

Lost in Translation. Found in Hebrew.

A lot of what gets argued about in Scripture comes down to one problem: translation flattened the word and the tradition built on the flattened version. Words like שָׁלוֹם (shalom), חֶסֶד (chesed), and תְּשׁוּבָה (teshuvah) carry covenant weight their English counterparts don't. "Peace." "Mercy." "Repentance." Accurate enough to pass. Not accurate enough to understand what the text is actually doing.

The New Testament is particularly vulnerable. Written in Greek by Jewish writers whose categories were entirely Hebrew. Read the Greek alone and you get part of the picture. Bring the Hebrew back and the whole frame shifts.

That's why this page exists.— Sergio

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Abba

my Father, intimate adult address

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Adamah

ground, soil, earth

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Adon

lord, master, owner

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Agapaō

to love with self-giving covenantal love, to esteem highly, to value

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Ahavah

love as covenantal action and obligation

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Alah

to go up, ascend, come up

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Anamnesis

remembrance, memorial

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anomia

lawlessness; without law; without Torah

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autonomos

self-law; governed by one's own law; the root of "autonomy"

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Av

father, origin, covenant founder

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Avinu

our Father (corporate covenant address to YHWH)

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Ayyekah

where are you?

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Baptizo

to plunge, submerge, immerse until covered

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Barukh

blessed; from barakh, to bless, to kneel

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Basar Echad

one flesh, composite unity

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Bat Kol

voice from heaven; daughter of the voice

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Besorah

good news, glad tidings, a king's victory announcement

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Bitachon

trust, reliance, confidence, security

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B'rakhah

blessing; a blessing spoken to God for His gift

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Brit

covenant, binding agreement

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Brit Chadashah

new covenant, renewed covenant

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b'tselem Elohim

in the image of God

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Chadash

new, renewed, restored

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Chadashah

new, renewed (feminine of chadash)

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Chag HaMatzot

Feast of Unleavened Bread

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Charut

engraved, incised (of the tablets); a hapax legomenon

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chatat

sin / sin offering / purification offering

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Chen

grace, favor, charm

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Chesed

covenant lovingkindness, covenant loyalty

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Chet

sin, missing the mark, going off target

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Chodesh

new moon; month

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Chuqqim

statutes, decrees, engraved laws

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Dam HaBrit

the blood of the covenant

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Daqar

to pierce, thrust through

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Darash

to seek, inquire, study

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Davaq

to cling, to hold fast, to fuse

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Davar

word, thing, event, matter

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Echad

one, unified, composite unity

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Edah

congregation; an assembly gathered by appointment around a shared purpose

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Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh

I will be what I will be

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Ekklēsia

Called-out assembly, summoned gathering

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Emunah

faithfulness, reliability, steadfastness

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ergon tou nomou

the work of the law (singular ethical effect)

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Eshet B'ritekha

the wife of your covenant

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exagorazō

to buy out / redeem / purchase a slave's release

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Ezer Kenegdo

a strength corresponding to him, a rescue-counterpart

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Gazar

to cut, sever, divide; to decree

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Gehinnom

Valley of Hinnom, Gehenna

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Goyim

nations, peoples, gentiles

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Ha-Derech (the Way)

the Way; the road, the path

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Hagiazō

to set apart, to consecrate, to make holy, to devote

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Halakh

to walk, to go, to live a life

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Halal

to praise, to boast, to celebrate loudly; to shine

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hamartia

sin / sin offering

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hilasmos

means of atonement / place of purification

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hilastērion

mercy seat / place of atonement

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Hineni

here I am, behold me

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Hypakouō

to obey, to listen-under, to comply

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Hypotassō

to align under, to take one's ordered place, to support, to stand alongside

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kabash

to subdue, to bring under order, to make serviceable

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Kadosh

set-apart, distinguished, holy

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Kapparah

Atonement / Covering

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kapporet

mercy seat / covering of the Ark

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Karaite

Scripturalists, Jews who hold the Tanakh as sole controlling authority over later rabbinic tradition

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Karat

to cut; to cut off; the verb of covenant-cutting and of excision

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Karat Brit

to cut a covenant

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Kavod

glory as weight, substance, heaviness

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Kedushah

set-apartness, holiness, sanctification

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Kenōsis

self-emptying, pouring out, the voluntary laying down of standing

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Kephale

head, source, origin

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Kiyyem

to uphold, establish, cause to stand

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Kohen

priest

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Korban

offering; that which is brought near

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Kraspedon

edge, border, hem; LXX equivalent of tzitzit

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Kulo

all of it, all of him, the whole

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Kurios

lord, master

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Kyrieuō

to lord over, to exercise dominion, to dominate

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Lev

heart as seat of will and decision

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Louo

to bathe the whole body

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Ma'al

sacrilege, faithless misappropriation, treachery in sacred trust

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Ma'aseh

handiwork, deed, work of hands

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Malchut Shamayim

Kingdom of Heaven, reign of God

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Malki-Tzedek

my king is righteousness; the priest-king of Salem

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Mama Lashon

mother tongue; the language of the kitchen, the lullaby, and the prayer

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Mamlechet Kohanim

a kingdom of priests

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Maqor

fountain, spring, source

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Mashal

to rule, to govern, to exercise dominion

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Mashiach

anointed one, the commissioned

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Mayim Chayim

living water; flowing water

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Medabber

speaking (active participle)

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Memra

the Word (of YHWH)

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Metanoia

change of mind, reconsideration

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Mikvah

ritual immersion pool; gathering of living water

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Mishkan

dwelling place, tabernacle, the portable sanctuary where YHWH's presence rested among Israel

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Mitzvat Anashim Melumadah

a commandment of men learned by rote

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Mitzvot

commandment; divine instruction; (pl.) commandments

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Mo'adim

Appointed Times, Divine Appointments

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Moed

appointed time, fixed meeting, sacred assembly

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Na'aseh V'nishma

we will do and we will hear

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nasa

to lift / to carry / to bear

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