Exodus 22
…Hebrew and English Bibles split chapters 21 and 22 at different points: what English readers know as Exodus 22:1…
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1 Kings — Introduction
…About the book Where it sits In the Hebrew Bible one book, Kings, among the Former Prophets; in the Christian…
Ezra 1
…Translator’s Notes Verses 1–3 · the sentence the Hebrew Bible ends on, finished ⚠ These three verses are how the…
Micah — Introduction
…He is the first prophet the Hebrew Bible records as being quoted by a LATER prophet (Jeremiah 26:18), which…
Obadiah — Introduction
…about a dozen men in the Hebrew Bible bear it, and this one cannot be securely matched to any of…
Genesis 14
…Avram ha'ivri "Abram the Hebrew." Here the word "Hebrew" (ha-ivri) enters the Bible, and it is fitting it…
Jonah — Introduction
…the famous 'great fish' verse is Hebrew 2:1, which English Bibles renumber as 1:17 (so English chapter 1…
Genesis 6
…Yadon occurs only here in the entire Hebrew Bible, and its meaning is genuinely disputed: "remain/abide" (following the ancient…
Psalms 91
…you stand behind; socherah occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible, so its sense (buckler? encircling wall?) is inferred from…
Habakkuk — Introduction
…Some of its Hebrew (chapter 3 especially) is archaic and among the hardest in the Bible. Author HABAKKUK 'THE PROPHET…
