Hidden Meaning in Genesis 1:1

[SilentShadow100]

Here is Genesis 1:1 in English: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Sadly, that is all you can get from that verse in English. Here is that same verse in the original Hebrew:
"בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ"

For those who don't read Hebrew, it says "Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aratz."

As verses are man-made additions to the Bible for easier navigation, I will refer to this sentence as the first sentence rather than the first verse. In this first sentence, or complete thought, there are exactly 7 words, a number of completion. Unless you read it in Hebrew, you would never know that.

The word "et" has no translation in English. However, it is formed using the letters "alef" and "tav." Those are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This will allow you to get these two meanings which exist beyond the literary meaning:
1. In the beginning, God created all: the heavens and the earth.
2. In the beginning, God, the First and the Last, created the heavens and the earth.

Studying Hebrew will allow you to come to a much better knowledge of God and the Bible. Do not think for one second that God is only capable of inspiring concepts. He is able to, and has inspired every Hebrew letter of the Bible. English Bibles should be read with Hebrew ones, not instead of them.

 

[pshun2404]

Yes and it includes every letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet and thus every possible number as well...the possibility of all other words of the word, and all mathematical possibility, is encased in Genesis 1:1...

all that follows from this point is contained therein...even the end which He knows from the bereshith (beginning)

Just a thought from the Hebrew...

Paul

 

[Rheard22]

So me learning Hebrew not only for the stimulation of my being but understanding the original text in all its glory over this handed down English version we have today.

Was the language spoken by citizens of Israel Hebrew or Aramaic if I may ask so kindly?

 

[trulyconverted]

Here is Genesis 1:1 in English: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Sadly, that is all you can get from that verse in English. Here is that same verse in the original Hebrew:
"בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ"

For those who don't read Hebrew, it says "Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aratz."

As verses are man-made additions to the Bible for easier navigation, I will refer to this sentence as the first sentence rather than the first verse. In this first sentence, or complete thought, there are exactly 7 words, a number of completion. Unless you read it in Hebrew, you would never know that.

The word "et" has no translation in English. However, it is formed using the letters "alef" and "tav." Those are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This will allow you to get these two meanings which exist beyond the literary meaning:
1. In the beginning, God created all: the heavens and the earth.
2. In the beginning, God, the First and the Last, created the heavens and the earth.

Studying Hebrew will allow you to come to a much better knowledge of God and the Bible. Do not think for one second that God is only capable of inspiring concepts. He is able to, and has inspired every Hebrew letter of the Bible. English Bibles should be read with Hebrew ones, not instead of them.

Thanks for the translation. I think it would be most wonderful to be able to read and understand the Hebrew bible. But we all know it ain't happening for everyone - including me. The English bible will have to suffice.

The most important treasure is the Holy Spirit in us who gives us understanding to things spiritual.

Jeremiah 31: (about God's new covenant)
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

 

[EGordo]

The Ancient Hebrew Education Center is a good resource on ancient Hebrew.
I can't post links yet but you can google it.

Thanks for posting this topic.
Reminds me of
1 Corinthians 2:9
9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

I've done a little research myself and if you study the ancient pictographs you'll find out things like why the Jews made a golden calf to represent God.

 

[trulyconverted]

I've done a little research myself and if you study the ancient pictographs you'll find out things like why the Jews made a golden calf to represent God.

Thanks for the info about the site.

Do you mind telling why they did it, am curious of what you've learned. Apart from making it their idol.

I probably won't study Hebrew as I find it hard to learn other languages. I tried to start to learn Spanish once, I do not follow through in that area. Am happy with the English version at this point in time.

 

[x141]

Here is Genesis 1:1 in English: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."


Sadly, that is all you can get from that verse in English.

That is, when your help meet is your soul or feminine.


It is sad that even with the hebrew, the hebrews being in the promise never came to understand that the promise was in them, therefore they were vomited out of the land, never keeping the sabbath of the land, which is much more than what they are in picture form in the natural to us.


The Eunuch could read the scipture, but had no understanding, not having a man to lead him.


Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water (a Jordan), the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: (A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father/Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you) and he went on his way rejoicing.

Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth ...


Words on a page convey something by measurement, but by this measurement cannot reveal the substance of what is hidden in them.

 

[ebedmelech]

Where would the hidden meaning be?

Very good literal/dynamic translations say it the same way:

NASB:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

Young's Literal Translation:
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

NIV:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Amplified Bible:
In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth.

I don't scribe that there's some hidden meaning there. The ability of man to communicate today is greater than ever, so I would say over all these years of translation, if there was something there translators missed...we'd know by now.

I could be wrong...but would conclude you have a hidden motivation to imply some hidden meaning.



בראשית 1 Biblos Interlinear Bible

Genesis 1 - Hebrew English Translation Massoretic Text MT Interlinear Holy Name King James Version KJV Strong's Concordance Online Parallel Bible Study

There's too many ways to get it right...

 

[EGordo]

Thanks for the info about the site.

Do you mind telling why they did it, am curious of what you've learned. Apart from making it their idol.

I probably won't study Hebrew as I find it hard to learn other languages. I tried to start to learn Spanish once, I do not follow through in that area. Am happy with the English version at this point in time.

Go to hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Pictograms/pictograms dot h t m l

The letter aleph and lamed together make a name of God. It's supposed to mean "Strong Leader." Every Hebrew letter has a meaning to it. The letter aleph in the pictogram is represented by a picture of an ox which is where they got the calf from. That website has more details. I can't post links just yet.

 

[trulyconverted]

Go to hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Pictograms/pictograms dot h t m l

The letter aleph and lamed together make a name of God. It's supposed to mean "Strong Leader." Every Hebrew letter has a meaning to it. The letter aleph in the pictogram is represented by a picture of an ox which is where they got the calf from. That website has more details. I can't post links just yet.

Thanks. I had a quick look. Interesting site.

 

[SilentShadow100]

So me learning Hebrew not only for the stimulation of my being but understanding the original text in all its glory over this handed down English version we have today.

Was the language spoken by citizens of Israel Hebrew or Aramaic if I may ask so kindly?

It was originally Hebrew, but towards the end of the Old Testament and during the New Testament, Aramaic started to become the everyday language, and Hebrew was only really used for religious purposes. During New Testament times, Greek would have been a language spoken in trade a lot.