Hebrew and number?

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I have more Hebrew questions.

I hope you help.

I think I read in Introduction to Christianity by Benedict, sheol hs two meanings: death & hell.

nesh·ä·mä’ can be translated as breath or soul, is that correct?

Do you know other words that can be used in two different senses?

THANKS!!!
 
Jim_Baur said:
I have more Hebrew questions.

I hope you help.

I think I read in Introduction to Christianity by Benedict, sheol hs two meanings: death & hell.

nesh·ä·mä’ can be translated as breath or soul, is that correct?

Do you know other words that can be used in two different senses?

THANKS!!!
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The Hebrew word for breath or spirit is Ruach, not Neshamah.

The human Neshamah is, however, considered to be a spiritual breath from G-D, however.

The word “guf” in Hebrew can mean either the internal organs, or the entire body. Hebrew has no word for body, per se.

ICXC NIKA.
 
GEddie:

Do you know more words that are used in more than one way?
 
I’m not sure that there are any Christians who learned Hebrew except directly or indirectly from Jewish scholars/teachers.

I have not read a systematic treatment of this subject.

perhaps you can contact Rabbi Lapin at www.youneedarabbi.com.
 
sirach2v4 said:
I’m not sure that there are any Christians who learned Hebrew except directly or indirectly from Jewish scholars/teachers.

I have not read a systematic treatment of this subject.

perhaps you can contact Rabbi Lapin at www.youneedarabbi.com.
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How else would you learn it?

Even if one were raised in Israel, the modern language is not the same as used in Scripture. They use modern numbers, for instance.

ICXC NIKA
 
This is for any person that might have the time, talent and energy.

How many Hebrew and Greeks words have more than one meaning?

Or, if it is a long list, a few would do!
 
Jim_Baur said:
First, let me yell my ignorance.

Second, my limited knowledge says that biblical numbers use the letters for numbers.

Does the Bible ever explain the numerical value of the letters?

Or, do we get their value from extra biblical sources?
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That is correct. Hebrew is/was one of those languages where the letters double(d) as numbers - they didn’t have special signs to denote numerals. Other writing systems which double(d) as numbers include Arabic (Hindu-Arabic numerals - the numbers we use today - were invented in India; Muslims simply adopted and transmitted them), Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic (it was once used in countries which spoke languages like Bulgarian or Russian).

We get the concept of gematria (for Hebrew letters) or isopsephy (for Greek letters) - the idea of assigning numerical values to a word or phrase or adding up said numerical values or interpreting the number-letters - from other sources. No, the Bible itself doesn’t explain the concept (although some books in the Bible - for example, Matthew’s genealogy and the Number of the Beast in Revelation - seem to use the practice and assume that their readers know what they’re getting at). Gematria/isopsephy was a common practice in Jewish and Christian circles during the 1st century AD and afterwards.
 
Jim_Baur said:
First, let me yell my ignorance.

Second, my limited knowledge says that biblical numbers use the letters for numbers.

Does the Bible ever explain the numerical value of the letters?

Or, do we get their value from extra biblical sources?

How does this apply to the ages of the Patriarchs and the antediluvian and people?

Exodus’s journey?

THANKS!!!
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I wanted to answer the original question.

It’s really not a spiritual thing, it would be like our alphabet where A would be 1, B would be 2, and so forth.

Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet has the numerical value of one;
Bet, the 2nd letter has the numerical value of two;
Gimmel, the 3rd letter has the numerical value of 3, etc.

I have a Hebrew Bible where there are no numbered verses at all, each verse is denoted by a letter of the Aleph-Bet (alphabet) the numerical value would be understood.
 
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