Lashon HaKodesh! This week, we introduce the Hebrew words for some key proper nouns to replace the common Anglicized or Chr’stian translations. Here are the Hebrew vocabulary words introduced in Lecture 3 of "The Torch of Truth: Rediscovering the Hebrew Bible from a Jewish Perspective."
בראשית -Bereshit/Genesis
בראשית ברא - Bereshit bara/In the Beginning
פרק - chapter/Perek
פרשת בראשית - Parashat Bereishit
אדם הראשון- Adam HaRishon/Adam, the First man
גן עדן- Garden of Eden/Gan Eiden
חוה- Chava/Eve
נחש- nachash/Snake
שבת - Shabbat
משיח - Messiah/Moshiach
הבל - Hevel/Abel
קין - Kayin/Cain
נח - Noach/Noah
שם - Shem
חם - Ham/Cham
יפת - Japheth/Yaphet
אברם - Avram/Abram
פרעה- Paro/Pharaoh
יצחק - Yitzchak/Isaac
רבקה - Rivka/Rebecca
