The more you know of Hebrew the deeper you can go. However, the layman should be able to pick up in a day or so what he needs to know about Hebrew to enable him to do meaningful detailed Bible studies. 

Since we are dealing with a static text, all the work that would require years of learning at a seminary is done for you. You now have a powerful tool by which to judge the accuracy of any translation and the first one that should be judged is the one the author made. The contents of this package rests on the shoulders of  theological giants: Ussher, Newton, Gill, Wigram, Strong, Young, Brown, Driver, Briggs, Berry, Scrivner  and Gesenius… to mention only a few. Modern scholars would include, John Owen, Todd Beall, Maurice Robinson, Jay Green, Jacob B. Smith and Gary Gallant.

The 2013 Hebrew text came from CCAT and was supplied by BibleWorks.  We have now completed the work started by Jay Green in the 1960’s of keying everything  to Strong’s numbers and giving the analytical information for each word.

We distinguished  between cardinals and ordinals in the Hebrew. The first year of a king’s reign is not the same as year one. Modern usage of the word has corrupted the meaning. The same goes for the word jubilee. Modern usage means the year 50 where as Hebrew usage means year 49 or the 50th  year. Modern translations often place ordinals in a verse where cardinals are best understood. For example, year 2 of a king is not the same as his second year according to modern usage. The use of the word Jehovah does not mean we are Jehovah Witnesses nor does the word brethren mean we are Plymouth Brethren. These words are best suited the Hebrew and Greek. Modern names given in classical history are used for place names and proper names. We are indebted to Sir. Isaac Newton, Bishop James Ussher and John Gill for these. English spellings are used throughout. To select American spelling, select from the Online Bible, use the menus Tool/Customize and select American Spellings from the checklist.

Many items including grammar parsings and grammatical notes are abbreviated. Float your mouse cursor over the entry to get an expanded explanation. The & sign before a word means words that were implied by Hebrew vowel points or the Greek endings. The “%” sign means a change in number from the original language. For example, %you really means thou in English.  In the Hebrew “+” means an implied construct as opposed to a real one as indicated by “-”. Likewise “?” implies a interrogative, a “@” implies location and “!” implies subjunctive.

The intent of the English translation is to give you what the Greek and Hebrew actually say in as readable English as possible. The Literal is meant for study purposes not necessarily for the pulpit. By and large the Literal translation runs very close to the Authorized Version only in modern English.

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Please report any errors or improvements for the translation directly to Larry Pierce at waltermartinson@gmail.com or call (226) 243-6286.  All translation improvements must be based on the original language and analytical information.