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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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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Av

father, origin, covenant founder

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Avinu

our Father (corporate covenant address to YHWH)

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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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Brit

covenant, binding agreement

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Chag HaMatzot

Feast of Unleavened Bread

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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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Chuqqim

statutes, decrees, engraved laws

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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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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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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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Gehinnom

Valley of Hinnom, Gehenna

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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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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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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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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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Kraspedon

edge, border, hem; LXX equivalent of tzitzit

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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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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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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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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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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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Mo'adim

Appointed Times, Divine Appointments

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Moed

appointed time, fixed meeting, sacred assembly

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nasa

to lift / to carry / to bear

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Nefesh

living being, life, self

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Neshamah

intimate breath of life, life-breath

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Nomos

law, legal code

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Olam

age, era, eternity, the long horizon

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Orthotomeō

to cut straight, to handle rightly

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Ouk Egnon Hymas

I never knew you

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Pardes

enclosed garden, the garden of the righteous dead

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Parochet

veil, curtain, the barrier between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies

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Pesach

Passover, to Pass Over, to Spare

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Pneuma

spirit, breath, wind

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Poiēma

workmanship, that which is made; root of English "poem"

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Proseuchomai

to pray, to turn one's face toward God with a vow

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Qahal

assembly, congregation, the gathered community

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Qarov

near, close, kin, within reach

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Radah

to rule, to have dominion, to tread down

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Ruach

wind, breath, spirit

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Ruach HaKodesh

the Holy Spirit, the set-apart breath of YHWH

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Sar Habayit

master of the household

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Segulah

treasured possession, prized acquisition, personal property

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Sēmeron

today, this day

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Shabbat

Cessation, Rest, the Seventh Day

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Shalem

whole, complete, undivided, intact

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Shaliach

sent one, authorized agent, emissary

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Shalom

wholeness, completeness, nothing missing, nothing broken

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Shalvah

tranquility, quiet security, the calm that rests inside wholeness

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Shamayim

the heavens, sky, realm of God

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Sha'ul

asked of God; the Hebrew name of the apostle the church calls Paul

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Shavuot

Weeks, Oaths, Pentecost

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Shema

hear, obey

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Shemini Atzeret

Eighth Day Assembly, the Gathering

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Shomer

keeper, watchman, guardian

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Shuv

to return, to turn back, to repent

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Sōzō

Rescue, preserve, make whole

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Spoudason

be diligent, make every effort, give all haste

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Sukkot

Tabernacles, Booths, Shelters

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tachat

in place of / instead of / underneath

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