Hebrew + Greek Bible Giveaway

Does this describe you:
• You’ve learned the basic syntax of Bible languages
• You know some basic vocab
• But the less common words? No, you don’t know ketem from katalambano. A Bible that defines the uncommon words might be hepful...

If that’s you, you are in luck...

 

 

WE'RE GIVING AWAY FIVE OF A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible (See how to enter at bottom of post)

Wait a sec, what's special about this Bible?
Any Hebrew word that appears less than 100 times is defined at the bottom of the page:

OT Excerpt

And in the NT, you'll find definitions for any Greek word that appears less than 30 times:

NT Excerpt

So, what if a Greek word appears 31 times? The book doesn’t define that?

Common vocab are defined in the book’s Hebrew and Greek lexicons.

Okay, what about the textual sources?
The complete text of the Hebrew and Aramaic Bible uses the Westminster Leningrad Codex (4.4). You will find notes on alternate consonants and pointing where the Codex differs from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1997). Similarly, the Greek text includes footnotes where it differs from the UBS4.

How do I enter to win?
LEAVE A COMMENT WITH YOUR FAVORITE GREEK OR HEBREW WORD.
If you don't have a favorite biblical word, just say "seper," which is Hebrew for scroll/book. We'll announce winners on Friday.

Comments

[Matt Haste]

parousia!

[Jonathan]

seper!

[Justin]

seper

[Greg Capel]

seper

[Matthew Schultz]

seper

[Jake Belder]

My favourite Greek word is ευχαριστεω.

[Ryan Vincent]

Dikaioo - Justified

[Charles]

Hesed in Hebrew or charis in Greek.

[Justin]

Logos

[Stephen Clay Smith]

It's simple, but I like "dag", because of the significance of the gender flips in the book of Jonah.

[Jon Seger]

Seper!

[Mike H.]

σπλαγχνίζομαι (splanchnizomai) to be moved in one's guts with compassion

[Jeff Wright]

Favorite Greek word? skubalon! I guess because I'm still a bit immature. Winning this drawing could help me find some better favorite words! :)

[Mario Nunez]

Galatians 2:20 NASB-
I have been crucified with (systauroō)
"crucified alone with another"

[Dave]

agape

[Jason Gudim]

My favorite Hebrew word? Definitely "hesed". And as for my favorite Greek word? "anastasis".

I know it said to leave just one, but how can you pick?

[Chris Mitchell]

Chesed

[Eric Moffett]

"Ruach"

[Daniel]

I really like the Greek word παρουσια (parousia), especially as John uses it in 1 John 2:28ff in referring to the return/coming of Christ. "And the one having this hope in him purifies himself just as that one [Jesus] is pure" (John 3:3, my translation).

[Don Gale]

doulos

[Cary Hughes]

anthropos

[Charles Clayton]

When I first learned Greek I just loved the way synagogue sounded in Greek (sunagoge).

Charles

[Doug Rowles]

seper

[Aaron]

חֶסֶד (chesed)

[Sumit Bhardwaj]

koinonia - Fellowship. Communion. Isn't that what being a Christian is? Communion with the triune God and communion with the fellow saints.

[Jason Button]

This is an awesome resource. Especially having both OT and NT combined!

Favorite HEB: hesed. Favorite GRK: hupomone

I've reviewed RHB and Hendrickson's UBS Greek New Testament: Reader's Edition. Looking forward to using this one. Thanks.

[Catfishjim]

My favorite Greek word is ἀρχηγός. It is my favorite title for Christ in Acts and Hebrews.

[Francis Pang]

ἠγέρθη

[Alex Poulos]

Tough choice, but I'll have to go with πνεύμα

[Justin Dodson]

spoudazo- meaning "to make every effort" or as I like to say, "Go all out!". This was the first word I learned in my Elementary Greek class, where my prof pointed out that in 2 Tim.2.15, Paul calls us to "go all out to present ourselves as approved workman who rightly divide the word of truth", and hence why we need the biblical languages, to aid us in doing that better. However, when I found myself being somewhat divisive in my attempts to defend the truth in a difficult situation on a rather debatable matter, I came to Eph.4.3 where the word spoudazo is used participally, "making every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace." And I broke down as I realized that the same intensity I was pursuing doctrinal truth should be the same intensity that I pursue peace. So I thank God for this word, as it has called me to repentance on multiple occasions!

[Robert]

Seper!

[Darrell]

eulogia -- Blessing or praising (which I will be doing if I'm a winner!)

[Benjamin Magness]

"zakar" {remember}

[Kevin Fiske]

My favorite Greek word is "palingenesias"!

Thanks for the contest!

[Tim Etherington]

Gotta be splagchnizomai!

[David Garabedian]

My favorite hebrew word is "bara" for create used both in Genesis 1:1 and Pslams 51.

[Steve Bricker]

λατρεία

[A. S. Haley]

Favorite Greek word is logos.

Favorite Hebrew word is kowkab.

[Howard Andruejol]

exagorazō

[Shan Hardage]

charis

[Nicole]

My favorite Hebrew word is בקבוק
...meaning bottle. Say it, you'll like it!

[Christian Crouch]

My wife and I love studying the biblical languages so much that, when she got pregnant with our first baby, it was a foregone conclusion that some Greek or Hebrew word would figure into his name. After lots of talking (and just a little arguing) about exactly which language his name would come from, we decided to split it 50/50 and pick one from Greek and one from Hebrew.

On January 26 of this year, Stephen Adoniram was born into a family that fully expects the languages to play a major role in his life. After going to passages like II Timothy 4:8 and Revelation 2:10, explaining the importance of stephanos was pretty easy; however, understanding (and pronouncing) Adonai-ram has been a lot more difficult for my Appalachian family!

[George]

My favorite happens to be the Greek κύριε, though σφοδρα is up there as well... melek is my favorite Hebrew word, the one that comes to mind if I think of the Hebrew language.

[Andrea Schultz]

What an awesome resource!

My favorite -

parakaleo

[Remington]

HB: 'ezer
GK: praus

Thanks for the chance to win!

[Kevin]

Geez. A favorite? That's hard. I suppose אלהים or יהוה don't count! :-). I'll just go with the one I've been personally wrestling with recently: משרת. While Moses (משה) is an עבד, Joshua (יהושע) is a משרת. I simply want to be a 'servant/assistant' to the Lord in everything I do, everything I teach...everything I am.

אני רוצה להיות משרת ליהוה.

[Jimlas2001]

bachar; seper

[Jeffrey White]

σκυβαλα

[Timothy J Russell]

My favorite Greek word is "scubalon" from Philippians. this is what Paul calls all his works of righteousness.

[Ken Wilson]

One of my favorites: proseuxesthe