The untold Hebrew story

The Hebrew truth revealed

The name “Hebrew”- Ivrit (עִבְרִית) originally comes from the word ivri (עִבְרִי) meaning “crosser”. This refers to the foreign origins of the Israelites, on the other side of the river. Abraham, the father of the Hebrews, was the first to cross over the Euphrates River and make his home in the Land of Canaan. 

But at the time of the Bible, the language of the Hebrews actually had a different name: Yehudit, literally “Judahite,” the language of the tribe of Judah. Although the Hebrews were a small people, through the Bible, their language conquered the world. To this day, many Hebrew words - Amen (אָמֵן) and Hallelujah (הַלְלוּיָהּ) and Sabbath (שַׁבָּת) – are commonly used in dozens of languages around the world. 

The Bible was translated into 670 languages and in each translation, some meaning was lost. The scholars doing these translations focused on producing a Bible that sounded good in translation. In our live online courses, we stick with the original version of the Bible – Biblical Hebrew. Enroll today and discover the depths of the Bible with Hebrew!