HEBREW

('IVRI)

Move To Different Condition

Hebrew is the English pronunciation of the word "'ivri" meaning "cross over to other side" or "move to different condition".

Crossing over or moving to a different condition is what Avraham did when Yahweh called him out from his country, family, and father's house. It is chronicled in In Beginnings 12:1 (Genesis), the first of the 5 books of Mosheh. 

In Beginnings (Genesis) – NKJV - 12:1: Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you."

Because of his obedience, he and his descendants, who became a nation, began to be called "Hebrews".  - In Beginnings (Genesis)

• In Beginnings (Genesis) – NKJV - 14:13: Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.
• In Beginnings (Genesis) – NKJV - 39:14: that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, “See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
• In Beginnings (Genesis) – NKJV - 40:15: For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon.”

The word "Hebrew" also went on to become the appellation of the language of the nation. Did Avraham begin to speak a new dialect upon his willingness to "cross over" to where Yahweh was leading him?

What was the name of his language before it took on the "Hebrew" title, and why did this word stick?

In linguistic research you will find that languages never had names. The name of a language was the name of the people who spoke it. In Beginnings (Genesis) 11:1 states "And all the earth was of one lip and unified words." 

What was that original tongue, lip, or language?

Okay, let's see! Did you know that there are words and names which have not changed over the centuries, that have their own origin and are not borrowed from other dialects, and yet are ubiquitous to every nation, tribe, and tongue in all the earth? 

Here are a few:

• Adam - Be earthly and solid; being reddish, ruddy (muddy red); Man; ruby

• Micha-Eil (Micheal) - Who is like the Power

• Gabri-Eil (Gabriel) - Being victorious of Power

• Amen - Depend upon; rely upon; trust

• Halelu-Yah - Brag and boast of Yahweh

• Emanu-Eil - Power with us

• satan - Retard; hinder; adversary; devil

• Yahweh - Existence; He will exist

• Yeshua - Yahweh grants essence of existence

• Peni-Eil (pineal gland) - Face or presence of Power

All these words are of Hebrew origin. There are many other words that have not been translated out of their classical Hebrew origin into other languages and are being used as a normal part of many dialects' vocabulary.

By the way, I'm talking about the ancient or classical writings of the Hebrew no longer spoken today. What am I saying? You guessed it! 

Ancient, classical Hebrew was/is the original language of man!

MORE ABOUT HEBREW

QUICK FACTS:

• The original language was made up of approximately 7000 words built from approximately 300 verb roots. 
• The verb roots contain a three letter stem. 
• Each letter in the stem is called a radical. 
• The stem is affixed by prefixing, infixing or suffixing for word building. 
• The language is visual; pictorial as well as spoken. 
• It is a functional language, and a language of action!

Modern Hebrew spoken today had its beginnings in the late 19th century inspired by Eliezer Perelman. European Jews (Askenazi) began settling in Palestine in 1881. They spoke a dialect called "Yiddish" (literally "Jewish"), Perelman's mother tongue, which had it's origin around the 9th century A.D. from Middle High German, with varying admixtures of Slavic, having been re-lexified in classical Hebrew. Perelman believed the different tribes warranted a common language, upon so he borrowed from modern Arabic, Aramaic, and the classical Hebrew, expanding it to approximately 100,000 words of the modern Hebrew used today. Perelman, who later changed his name to Ben Yehuda, was born in Russia in the late 1850's and died in 1922.

The language of Avraham, before the appellation of the word "Hebrew", was the language of his forefathers who did not participate in the Babylonian rebellion. In Beginnings (Genesis) 11:10 records the lineage from Sheim unto Avraham, of those who did not lose the original lip.

By the way, the term "Semitic" (shemitic) comes from Sheim, Avraham's forefather from Noach, from Methuselach, from Chanok (Enoch) the 7th from Adam, son of Yahweh our creator. There are other Semitic dialects, but I'll let you figure out which ones and who they are spoken by.

Hebrew is the eternal language that identifies with our senses (i.e. sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing). Imagine a language that does not go beyond the senses, making it impossible for misunderstanding or subjective conclusions! 

A language where words/names reflect character and function. Hence the word "Hebrew" sticking to Avraham and his descendants to this day; a nation of people who are always crossing over to get to the other side, always moving to different conditions as the One who called them commands. 

The purpose being to right wrongs, meet needs, and set things in order, creating harmony wherever they may find themselves; until all of us who were made in the image and likeness of Yahweh are returned to that likeness, and function according to His design.

Are you a Hebrew like father Avraham? 

If you are a limud (disciple) of Yeshua the Messiah (anointed), then you are; "And to Avraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your seed,' who is Messiah." (Galatians 3:16)

In Beginnings (Genesis) 13:15 and 17:7 the Hebrew word there is "zera'" meaning "seed" in the singular, not the plural form. We are to be followers and imitators of Yeshua the Messiah (1 Peter 2:21) for the purpose of reaching the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Anointing (Ephesians 4:13).

Then will we be restored completely to the original image and likeness of our Creator, but this time beyond that of Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45-49).

Shalom.