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Beit Midrash
(House of Learning)
Beit Midrash Index • Vocabulary Matters
Books of the BibleTransliterated Hebrew Names |
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Torah (Teaching) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
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B’resheet | Genesis | In [the] Beginning | The book of beginning |
Shemot | Exodus | Names | The Book of Redemption |
V’yakra | Leviticus | And He Called | Works & Ministry |
B’midbar | Numbers | In the Desert | Wilderness Wandering |
Devarim | Deuteronomy | [These are the] Words (or Things) | The Repetition of Torah |
Nevi’im (Prophets)Nevi’im Rishonim (Early Prophets) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Yehoshua | Joshua | Yah Saves | Warfare & Victory |
Shoftim | Judges | Judges | Adonai Raise up Judges |
Shmuel Aleph | First Samuel | Heard by God - One | Transition & establishment of Monarchy |
Shmuel Bet | Second Samuel | Heard by God - Two | |
M’lakhim Alef | First Kings | Kings - One |
History of the Kings & Kingdoms (Evangelical Prophet) |
M’lakhim Bet | Second Kings | Kings - Two | |
Nevi’im Acharonim (Later Prophets) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Yesha’yahu | Isaiah | Yah is Salvation | Oracles, prophecies |
Yirmi’yahu | Jeremiah | Yah Lifts Up | Activities of Prophet in Exile in Babylon |
Y’chezki’el | Ezekiel | God Strengthens | |
Shneim-‘Asar (The Twelve) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Hoshea | Hosea | Yah Save | |
Yo’el | Joel | Yah is God | Compassion of Yahweh; HaShem's Grace |
‘Amos | Amos | Burden Bearer | Judgment & Kingdom of God |
‘Ovadyah | Obadiah | Servant (Worshipper) of Yah |
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Yonah | Jonah | Dove | |
Mikhah | Micah | Who is Like Yah | Shortened of “Mikhayah” |
Nachum | Nahum | Comforter | |
Havakuk | Habakkuk | Embracer | |
Tz’fanyah | Zephaniah | Yah Hides | |
Chagai | Haggai | My Feast | |
Z’kharyah | Zechariah | Yah Remembers | |
Mal’akhi | Malachi | My Messenger | |
K’tuvim (Writings) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
T’hillim | Psalms | Praises | |
Mishlei | Proverbs | My Rule/Wisdom | Proverbs & Parables |
Iyov | Job | Hostility | |
The Five Megillot (Scrolls) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Shir HaShirim | Song of Solomon | The Song of Songs | |
Rut | Ruth | Chained/Welded | a Moabite word |
Eikhah | Lamentations | How? | |
Kohelet | Ecclesiastes | Community | |
Ester | Esther | Myrtle Tree | Babylonian: “a star” |
History |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Dani’el | Daniel | God is My Judge | |
Ezra | Ezra | Help | |
Nechemyah | Nehemiah | Yah Comforts | |
Divrei-HaYamim Aleph | First Chronicles | Word of the Ages - One | |
Divrei HaYamim Bet | Second Chronicles | Word of the Ages - Two | |
Deterocanonical (Apocryphal) Books(Not in the Canon) |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Tobit | |||
Judith | |||
Esther (Greek) | |||
Wisdom of Solomon | |||
Sirach | |||
Baruch | |||
Makabim Aleph | First Maccabees | Hammers One | |
Makabim Bet | SecondMaccabees | Hammers Two | |
First Esdras | |||
Prayer of Manassas | |||
Psalm 151 | |||
Makabim Gimel | Third Maccabees | Hammers Three | |
Second Esdras | |||
Makabim Dalet | Fourth Maccabees | Hammers Four | |
Daniel (Greek) | |||
Ketuvei HaShalichim |
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The Good News of the Kingdom |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Mattityahu ha’Levi | Matthew | Gift of Yah the Levite | Yeshua as Mashiach HaMelech ben David |
Mordechai | Mark | Little Man | Yeshua as Servant |
Uri | Luke | Light | Yeshua as the Perfect Man (Ben Adam) |
Yochanan | John | Yah Enables | Yeshua as Deity |
History |
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P’yilut Hashaliachim | Acts of the Apostles |
Activity of the Sent Ones |
The Work of Ruach HaKodesh |
Cepherim (Letters)Rav Sha’ul’s Cepherim to Communities |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Romim | Romans | Establishes most of the Theology for the Apostolic Writings | |
Korintim Alef | First Corinthians | ||
Korintim Bet | Second Corinthians | ||
Galitim | Galatians | ||
Efesos | Ephesians | ||
Pilifim | Philippians | ||
Kolosim | Colossians | ||
Taslonikim Alef | First Thessalonians | ||
Taslonikim Bet | Second Thessalonians | ||
Rav Sha’ul’s Cepherim to Individuals |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Timotiyos Alef | First Timothy | ||
Timotiyos Bet | Second Timothy | ||
Titos | Titus | ||
Pileymon | Philemon | ||
General Cepherim |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Ivrim | Hebrews | Messianic Jews | Yeshua HaMashiach as Cohen HaGadol |
Ya’akov | James | Heel of Yah | |
Kefa Aleph | First Peter | Stone - One | |
Kefa Bet | Second Peter | Stone - Two | |
Yochanan Aleph | First John | Yah Enables - One | |
Yochanan Bet | 2 John | Yah Enables - Two | |
Yochanan Gimmel | 3 John | Yah Enables - Three | |
Y’hudah | Jude | Praise With Hands Lifted | |
Prophecy |
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Hebrew Name | English Name | Translation | Comments |
Hitgalut | Revelation | The Revelation of Yeshua HaMashiach | |
It should be noted that the breaking of Shmuel (Samuel), Melachim (Kings), and Divrei Hayamim (Chronicles) into two parts is strictly an artifact of the Christian printers who first issued the books. They were too big to be issued as single volumes. Because everyone who came later followed these de facto standards, the titles of Volume 1 and Volume 2 were attached to the names. The division of the Tanakh into chapters was also done by medieval Christians, and only later adopted by Jews. However, very early on, at least as early as the the time of the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE) the Torah was “divided” into 54 weekly portions, or parashot, [singular, parshah] and each was referred to by the first word or words of the section, much as we now refer to sections by chapter and verse. These parashot were read and studied during the Shabbat worship service — along with a section from the Prophets that is thematically linked with that week’s parshah — on an annual reading cycle corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years. One week is always Passover and another is always Sukkot, and the final parshah, V'Zot HaBerachah, is always read on Simchat Torah along with the first verse of B'resheet (Genesis) so the cycle is never-ending. Therefore, there are in practice up to 53 available weeks for 53 portions. In years with fewer than 53 available weeks, some readings are combined to achieve the needed number of weekly readings. Thus, every child born into Israel had heard the entire Torah read and studied through no less than twelve times before reaching the age of adulthood (bar/bat mitzvah). This explains the decision of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) to not require Gentiles coming to faith in Yeshua to either go through a formal “conversion” process to be assimilated into Jewish society or to immediately assume the entire “yoke of Torah” immediately upon conversion, “Because from the earliest times, Moshe has had in every city those who proclaim him, with his words being read in the synagogues every Shabbat.” (Acts 15:21) After a few years of faithful synagogue attendance they would become familiar with the requirements of the entire Torah. For Shabbat services, each parshah (also referred to as “Torah portion”) is further divided into eight sections called aliyot (literally, “ascent”), to be read by individual readers during synagogue worship. I have include these indications in my version . Many Christian Bibles have expanded versions of several of books (Ester, Ezra, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Chronicles), including extra material that is not accepted as canonical in Judaism. This extra material was part of the ancient Greek translation of the Tanakh, but was never a part of the official Hebrew Tanakh. Jews regard this extra material as apocryphal. Among Christians, there is a difference of opinion. Catholics regard this material as canonical, while most Protestant denominations regard this material as Apocrypha. Some of the most famous Apocryphal stories are closely associated with the book of Daniel, and indeed are printed as part of that book in some English Bibles. These stories include: Susan and the Elders, The Song of the Three Children, and Bel and the Dragon. |
ANXIOUSLY WATCHING FOR MASHIACH’S RETURN,
SPEEDILY AND IN OUR DAY. MARANA, TA!