ELTBefore Introduction
I first wanted to learn enough Hebrew to use tools and verify if what people were telling me it meant, was true. The letters were so foreign that I could not recognize them or tell some of them apart. I used a children's primer and traced letters to gain that familiarity. I learned to use Strong's concordance of the Bible, and Harris' et. al. Theological Word Book of the Old Testament. My observation was that it was all bunk. The latter was based on the nikud, or modern vowel added in 600 AD. Jesus never saw them. The first three entries point to:
- 4a - Assumed root...
- 1a - Assumed root...
- 27a - Assumed root...
They admitted that they didn't know what they were talking about and made up a lot of it. I didn't get the book to learn what they guessed at.
I decided to learn Hebrew from Rabbis. This is problematic because the rabbis actively reject Christ, and always lead you away from him. What they teach may be accidentally right, but most often not. They lied to Jerome and told him there were only 22 letters in the alphabet. But they say that letters get their meaning from the strokes within them, and there are 28 letters with 28 different meanings. The other six are called final forms. Five are found when one of five letters are at the end of a word, and one found on the garment of the priest, which is never used in any word. Isn't 28 a much nicer number than 22?
They told Jerome that Hebrew was like Greek, having 3-letter roots. However, the strokes give meaning to the letters and the meaning of the letters combine to give meaning to words. I wanted to learn how to read Hebrew from the meaning of the letters. Since they 'could not remember how to do it' I reverse engineered the language. I took about 8000 Hebrew lemma from Strongs and reversed them to the alphabet, while regenerating the letters from strokes. It's all like a giant multidimensional crossword puzzle. When the alphabet and Gen 1:1 came together, I figured I was close. My work could benefit with others reviewing it, but meanwhile it has been productive and fruitful.
