[Genesis] Typing and Translation

[yonah_mishael]

We just started typing Genesis in Hebrew and going through the grammar of the text. It's like an inductive approach to Hebrew. Interested? I can send a link. I would just copy the lessons here, but that would require that everyone have the most up-to-date versions of Times New Roman on their systems to support Hebrew accents.

I'll try copying it here. If it doesn't work for you, let me know.

Update: Won't really work since I need HTML to display the syntax of the verse.

I'll put it on my Hebrew instruction site and send a link.

Yonah

 

[7he4uthor]

Q: 1am told that GeneSis
[two words] means ...

1- Gene = genetics
2- SIS = metamorphosis = engineering

Genetic engineering

Now I can see how this breakdown works in English
[English = Hebrew/Latin/Greek/German mix]

BUT

Does it work in Hebrew ?


would like a response ...

 

[yonah_mishael]

No, this is nonsense.

The word Genesis is a Greek word. It is γένεσις genesis (with a hard g, meaning "beginning, origin"), and it comes from the verb γίγνομαι gignomai ("to become, come into being"). It is based in the aorist root of this word γεν-, as seen in the aorist ἐγένετο egeneto ("it came to pass, he/she/it became").

The sis ending doesn't have to do with metamorphosis. It's a standard ending in Greek (feminine). For example, the word ἀνίσταμαι anistamai means "rise up," especially "rise from the dead." The noun that's formed from this verb is ἀνάστασις anastasis means "rising" or "resurrection." The ending sis (σι&#962 is just part of the noun formation system in Greek. It has nothing to do with what you've written above.

The English word is a DIRECT transliteration of the Greek and is not a mix of anything else.

In Hebrew, the book of Genesis is called בראשית breishiyt. It has nothing to do with Greek.

 

[7he4uthor]

I have been exposed to information indicating that the Hebrews borrowed the Genesis story from Sumerian tablets [and/or oral traditions] which far predate the Torah or any oral Hebrew tradition.

Perhaps I should start another thread [off topic?]

Comments?

 

[yonah_mishael]

You might start such a thread under General Theology or Messianic Judaism. I can't answer such questions for you.

 

[Almond Joy]

Yonah my email is rootiex@hotmail.com I am interested learning in depth study of Genesis....

I once watched Jewels messianic television show on tbn and it was interesting but I forgot the teaching I haven't heard of anyone else like that explaining genesis with such interesting detail in the Hebrew translation... All I can remember was that he was trying to explain the hebrew meaning when God said - or spoke let their be light ... He explained something that was special in the meaning of when God speaks to create... I already forgot how he described the translation...

 

[visionary]

Can you translate this for me?

It is suppose to be on the Cairo Codex of the Prophets at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.