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Hebrew and Greek word studies

Key words as the first readers heard them, with the original script, pronunciation and Strong's number.

Translations are a gift, but every translation loses something. A single English or Spanish word often covers several Hebrew or Greek words, and some Hebrew words carry a picture that no translation can hold.

Each card in this section takes one important word and shows:

  • the word in its original script (Hebrew reads right to left),
  • how to pronounce it,
  • its Strong's number (H for Hebrew, G for Greek), so you can look it up yourself in any concordance,
  • and the Scriptures that show what it meant.

The New Testament was written in Greek, but its writers thought in the categories of the Hebrew Scriptures. Many Greek words in the New Testament are best understood by asking which Hebrew word stood behind them. A helpful clue: the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (made in stages from about 250 BC) that circulated in the first century often used the same Greek word for a Hebrew one, so the apostles could borrow the Hebrew meaning when they wrote in Greek.

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