The First word in the Bible

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I saw a video on YOUTUBE which really blew my mind. I did do some research and found it to be true. The video was speaking about the first word of the Bible which is “bereshit” meaning “In beginning”.

In Hebrew there are 22 letters in their alphabet, but unlike English each letter has multiple meanings. The breakdown of the Hebrew letters of bereshit would be"

Bet means: a tent, house, the body, household, inside, within and amid
Resh means: a head, a person, the one who is the highest, most important, and chief
Alef means: ox, bull, gentile, tame, the leader, strength, what is first, Adonai (God), thousand, and teach.
Shin means: teeth, ivory, the point of a rock, a peak, to devour, consume, destroy, something sharp.
Yod means: a hand closing, to work, a deed done, and a finished work
Tau means: a mark, to sign, cross, ownership to seal, covenant, to join 2 things, together, and the last.

When you combine Bet and Resh you get the word “bar” meaning “the son of” as in Yeshua bar Yoshef meaning “Jesus the son of Joseph” as Christ was known. (coming from the meaning of the two words it would be “the most important person in the household.” which in Jewish custom would be the oldest son.)

Here is where it gets interesting.
Bet & Resh together means The son of…
Alef means God
Shin means destroyed
Yod means by work
Tau means cross.

Put it together and what do you have: “The Son of God will be destroyed by His own work on a cross.”

This is the very first word of the Bible folks, and the plan of salvation was spelled out right there! UNBELIEVABLE!!!

 
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When were these first words written?

Jesus did say He was fulfilling the prophecies
 
Lee1 said:
When were these first words written?

Jesus did say He was fulfilling the prophecies
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“Bereshit” is the very first word in Genesis Chapter 1. While most likely it is not the oldest book of the Bible it is perhaps the second-oldest. Before being written down it existed for quite a long while as part of oral tradition. The first time it was written down was most likely somewhere around 4,000 yeas ago after the invention of writing.
 
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That’s pretty neat. Thanks for posting it.

The Jewish people really have their historical tradition act together, lots of interesting deeper meanings to Scripture.
 
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m going to ask someone who is fluent in Hebrew about it. If it is true, it’s quite interesting.
 
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I’d like to see some second and third corroborating sources.
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All you have to do is research the alphabet. I did confirm that “bereshit” is the first word and that “bar” and “resh” together can men “the son of”, as well as the meanings of the individual letters.

Let me know what you find.
 
Every letter is also a number so in the end of the Gospel of John were the 153 fish were mentioned, Jesus tells them who He is. ANI ELOHIM =153=I AM GOD.
 
There are certainly plenty of articles on line debunking the “Bereshit theory” so like anything else I’m sure people will be arguing over it forever, but it’s still pretty cool.
 
Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית) is also, for obvious reasons, the first word of the Gospel of John in the Hebrew translation of the New Testament:

http://www.haktuvim.com/en/study/John.1.1

However, this guy‘s interpretation of the word strikes me as unduly contrived. I suspect he’s reading into the Hebrew letters an imaginary “meaning” he wants to find there.
 
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Well, as the Son of God was not destroyed, He is eternal, how does that even make sense?
 
בֶּן־ - BEN is usually used as “Son” in Hebrew, is it not?

Ben is Hebrew; bar is Aramaic, but introduced into Hebrew (along with many other Aramaic terms) in the Second Temple period, by Judeans who returned from exile in Babylon.

Genesis 1:1 was written before the return from Babylon. Bar did not mean Son back then.
 
BartholomewB said:
However, this guy‘s interpretation of the word strikes me as unduly contrived. I suspect he’s reading into the Hebrew letters an imaginary “meaning” he wants to find there.
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I had thought so as well but the fact remains that it COULD be read that way. I think just the fact that it could be speaks volumes.
 
John_Martin said:
בֶּן־ - BEN is usually used as “Son” in Hebrew, is it not?

Ben is Hebrew; bar is Aramaic, but introduced into Hebrew (along with many other Aramaic terms) in the Second Temple period, by Judeans who returned from exile in Babylon.

Genesis 1:1 was written before the return from Babylon. Bar did not mean Son back then.
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The Jewish letters you used were the Bet and Resh which I spoke about, so whether ben or bar the meaning remains the same. I speak neither Hebrew nor Aramaic.

My understanding is that during the exile the Torah was put together from many books which had already been written down in some form, Genesis among them. In that sense it was like the formation of the New Testament… deciding which books should be in and which should be out.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Well, as the Son of God was not destroyed, He is eternal, how does that even make sense?
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As I said, it can mean many different things. I do not speak Hebrew but it seems to me that the words, like “ben” (or bar) meaning son coming from the meaning of bar and resh coming up with something like “the most important person in the household”. So there is not an exact correlation.
 
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The Jewish letters you used were the Bet and Resh which I spoke about,
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I did not use Resh, but BET and NUN (B and N) which is the word for Son in Hebrew.
I believe the first use of the word Son in Genesis is in chapter 4 speaking of Seth’s birth, and the word there is BeN, not BaR.
Those living prior to the use of the Aramaic language would never have associated this first word of Genesis with the promise of the Messiah and his cross, but these, our fathers in the faith before the exile in Babylon, had many prophets and judges and even some kings like David and Solomon who clearly spoke of the LORD’s intention to save us successfully. So they had this same hope without needing to know that Aramaic would one day have a word meaning Son based on the first two letters of the first word of the Scripture.

John Martin
 
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