Welcome back to my DTube Hebrew reading & language series.
The full study is now on line covering the Alef-Beyt here in my blog. This is a beginners program to teach letters, vowels, and reading. The vowels are marked in this bible and are designed to help avoid confusion on what a word is and how it is pronounced. The confusion is obvious in the hundreds of interpretations globally. In modern Hebrew, only children need a niqqud or vowel marking for each letter. Old manuscripts also usually have vowels marked.
This week's reading is from Genesis 1:20-22
We are in the fourth day as God causes all sea creatures to "swarm" (school) in the waters, and causes the birds to fly across the expanse. And let them "swarm" according to every kind. Swarm is one English interpretation and it is interesting that the ESV would choose that word (school, pod, or flock come to mind as options).
I hope you are starting to recognize many words that we have already learned, God, earth, great, which/that , et, all/every, marked below with green dots.
We are looking at some new vocabulary today. We have "water" or ma-yim which is always in plural, "creature" or nefesh discussed below, "bird" or oaf and a few more interpretations of al, some of them are above, over, across, on, etc., then we have hai-yah or "alive".
When I read nefesh I usually think of "soul", "person" or "being" and here, I see "creature" as the interpretation. I wondered why the word "creature" did not come to mind. It did not seem to fit so I looked up the number of translations there are for nefesh.
any (1), anyone (2), anyone* (1), appetite (7), being (1), beings (3), body (1), breath (1), corpse (2), creature (6), creatures (3), dead (1), dead person (2), deadly (1), death (1), defenseless (1), desire (12), discontented (1), endure* (1), feelings (1), fierce* (2), greedy* (1), heart (5), heart's (2), herself (12), Himself (4), himself (19), human (1), human being (1), hunger (1), life (146), life* (1), lifeblood* (2), lives (34), living creature (1), longing* (1), man (4), man's (1), men* (2), mind (2), Myself (3), myself (2), number (1), ones (1), others (1), ourselves (3), own (1), passion* (1), people (2), people* (1), perfume* (1), person (68), person* (1), persons (19), slave (1), some (1), soul (238), soul's (1), souls (12), strength (1), themselves (6), thirst (1), throat (2), will (1), wish (1), wishes (1), yourself (11), yourselves (13).
- "living creature" is comes up one time in the Tanakh.
- "creature" and "creatures" puts the count up to nine.
Life, Person, and Soul (about 500 times)
These seem to be the dominant interpretations, but the word only reads one way in Hebrew. I run across nefesh all the time while reading and the meaning is just nefesh.
It is understandable for what it means in Hebrew. Translation, based on context, needs to find different words to put in place of nefesh in order to fit the English culture.
If you have been with me from the beginning, you should be able to read on your own, maybe with some mistakes. But you can start practicing and building vocabulary. I am reading a little faster and pointing less each week. I hope you are too.
Here are the links
Please click over to DTube and read the above passage with me in Hebrew.
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If you are just starting, my lessons are all here starting at Alef, adding vowels (the dots and lines) as we go, the sofit formations and numerical values. Just go to my blog and scroll to the bottom or click here
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Shabbat Shalom
I give no opinion, but yours are welcome below
interesting, this language @hebrew, complex but you explain it very well, I think I understood something that we are new "nefesh" accepting God. a word that covers many.
Here is where God created all the creatures that lives in the water and those that flies on the sky. He equally blessed them to go forth and multiply and at the end, God saw that all he created was good and prefect. God is a prefect being and his ways are past finding out. Thanks @hebrew for another wonderful word of God this lovely weekend, the word of God is life and thanks for bringing forth life to us.
That’s very interesting. With recent lessons I can now say to my friend who is an Orthodox Jew few words. I’m sure he will be nicely surprised 😆. Living soul and alive creature me saying in Hebrew will definately surprise him. I just simply say “nefesh” (nephesh) and tell him what it means. I already know few tricks from your past lessons, so I think it will be conversation in progress. I will let you know his reaction.
BTW: my friend’s name is Leo.
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@hebrew,
It's great to see your weekly Hebrew lesson with Dtube video this time! Thank you very much for doing your best to teach us this ancient language!
Shabbat Shalom~
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When I read nefesh I usually think of "soul", "person" or "being" and here, I see "creature" as the interpretation. I wondered why the word "creature" did not come to mind. It did not seem to fit so I looked up the number of translations there are for nefesh.
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Interesting lesson. You are right if you read only with your soul and think about the soul. Thank you for sharing.
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Shabbat Shalom
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Similar to the dolphins, the compactness of the fish makes us have to learn from the nature of the fish.
I love these two words “living soul”. Hebrew is still tabu for me. It’s an artistic language especially in writings. Past lessons thought me about Hebrew using fewer words than English. Now it’s: Life, Person, and Soul חיים, אדם ונפש חיים, אדם ונפש (about 500 times). Ok! And also אלוהים God! And also אלוהים God!...500x!
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It's such a blessing for me to take a start with you in this wonderful journey of learning ancient language of ivrit I'm gonna download the book and will learn from the start, thank you so much for adjusting new comers in this journey with you. Many blessings on you.
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