Nehemiah 1
…Nehemiah son of Hacaliah.» No other book in the Hebrew Bible opens like this and then keeps going in the…
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Zechariah 5
…of the Hebrew Bible — are two completely unrelated Hebrew words. Different roots, different meanings, and in the Hebrew alphabet even…
Exodus 2
…And he went out the second day, and look — two Hebrew men struggling; and he said to the one in…
Deuteronomy 26
…Tene stands in four verses of the Hebrew Bible, every one of them in Deuteronomy: v2 and v4 here, and…
Numbers 12
…Pit’om, ‘suddenly’ — a word that elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible mostly belongs to disaster arriving without warning, here attached…
Hosea 1
…Rachamim, the ordinary Hebrew for compassion, comes from rechem — so Hebrew’s word for mercy is literally mother-feeling, the…
Joel 1
…The Hebrew runs 1:1–20, 2:1–27, 3:1–5, 4:1–21; English Bibles fold Hebrew chapter…
Jeremiah — Introduction
…book (a Hebrew Dead Sea Scroll fragment matches the shorter Greek order). The longest book in the Bible by word…
Deuteronomy 27
…The phrase Moses and the elders of Israel stands in one verse of the Hebrew Bible, v1: the one time…
Exodus 1
…And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives — the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name…
