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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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deep sleep, divinely imposed

praise; a song of praise; (plural Tehillim) the Hebrew title of the book of Psalms

desire, longing, gravitational pull

repentance, return, turning back

ritual immersion, purification washing

thanksgiving; a thank-offering; a confession of praise

instruction, teaching, direction, law

good, whole, complete, functional

table; the daily distribution

ritual impurity; covenant drift

I have hidden, treasured, stored away

righteousness, justice, right-relationship, charity

righteousness, rightness, what is straight

image of God

fringe, tassel

to appoint; to meet by appointment; to designate a set time or place

to know, in covenant intimacy

to give thanks, to praise, to confess; literally to throw or cast the hand

to go down, descend

to deliver, to rescue, to save

salvation; the Hebrew name of the Messiah of Israel

salvation / rescue / deliverance

the Name

the fear of YHWH

the smallest letter; the jot

Day of Firstfruits

Day of Atonement

Day of Trumpets, Day of Shouting

to remember, to act on behalf of

to sing praise, to make music; to prune, to trim back a vine

memorial, remembrance