The Fascinating Secret Behind Hebrew Letters

[@chalabread]

As a native Hebrew speaker I believe Hebrew is so fascinating, it’s the only language to die then get practically resurrected

[@dresdi]

no it isnt

[@user_finland]

​@@dresdiSuccesfully revitalized

[@dresdi]

@@user_finland it isn't the only one to do that 😂😂. first of all hebrew was never really dead, it was a liturgical language like sanskrit, coptic and latin, and second of all many actually dead languages (like manx) have been revived. just another case of zionists thinking they're the centre of the world

[@JonStoneable]

@@dresdiim not saying youre wrong, but it would be more constructive to provide examples

[@29rbs]

​@@dresdiYes it is...? Lol

[@noamjacob1216]

i’m a jew and i’m disappointed i never knew, hilarious watching you mispronounce our words tho, keep up the good work 👍

[@IsaacTGamer]

Same

[@TinyFord1]

As with 99% of English words being mispronounced by Americans I’m at the point where it’s an accent at this stage. Like with names of F1 drivers, or the famous “apartheid” that they pronounce as “ay-paart-hide” rather than “ah-parrt-hade”

[@noamjacob1216]

@@TinyFord1 apartheid is a myth 🇮🇱💙🤍

[@DrBible-ThD-HarvardLaw]

I’m a Goy from Monterey California. I married a gorgeous girl from the Mountains of Kentucky (whose ancestors were Jewish). After 52 years I still have trouble understanding her accent. If it were up to Solomon he’d cut us half into. BTW, you are helping me understand the first chapter of John in the Christian Bible.

[@yishmael_yid]

We dont call everyone goy​@@DrBible-ThD-HarvardLaw

[@nights_the_nightingale]

3:44 "This language sometimes, man-" Truer words were never spoken Thank you for making this, this really is such a beautiful video and language. I debated with trying to learn Hebrew for a long while (since I'm an American with NO ties to Judaism or Hebrew), but I'm finally taking the plunge. After all, life is short and learning is fun, might as well make the most of our time here

[@nitsanraviddaos4797]

Yaaaa, go for it!

[@موسى_7]

Learn biblical Hebrew, not the constructed language invented by Zionists.

[@manonamission2000]

by learning a language that reads from right to left, you boost your IQ by at least ten points.. worth it

[@ofekn]

Boosting the iq by 001 🤣

[@elaglagovsky8038]

you should learn Hebrew! as a native Hebrew speaker I can confirm this is a really cool language, for example this video and my opinion. in Hebrew there are many words that are some way connected but have a different meaning, so once you know one word and learn another you can see the resemblance between them. for example; "צדק" (tsedek) means right/justice, and "צדקה" (tsdaka) means charity. it has similar pronunciation and meaning because "tsdaka" is like saying "justice for ___". that's just something I've noticed (:

[@averageperson434]

As a Hebrew speaker even I didn’t know that!

[@drrepair]

Chinese has similar connotations because it is based on pictures from reality. It’s perhaps the first writing technique to transcend dialects and languages.

[@simonspethmann8086]

Hieroglyphs are the same, tho, and where the Hebrew letters originated (hence the meaning of each letter). It's a bit like Japanese letters coming from Chinese characters (or hieroglyphs). It would have been interesting, if hieroglyphs had been kept in the West, too. Apparently they were considered too difficult (plus holy) for the average person, which is how "demotic" (people) scripts developed. A bit like Korean characters. So I'd say what's really special about China isn't so much that it came up with hieroglyphs (like the Egyptians or the Maya), but that apparently a large enough portion of the population learned to read them to make their continued use feasible. And have it spread across a wider area. And lo and behold, the nations that adopted Chinese characters are still among the most educated in the world. Personally, that amazes me even more. 🙂☝️

[@jakeaurod]

@@simonspethmann8086 It's been suggested that the western alphabet, i.e. Latin alphabet, especially with the English language allowed for so much abstraction that it caused or allowed for more innovation. Some say this is why the west is more inventive and innovative than the eastern cultures that use pictograms.

[@artugert]

@@jakeaurodSuggested by whom? As someone who knows both languages, that sounds ridiculous.

[@ellenmacpherson4690]

Korean doesn't have characters, it's a phonetic alphabet. Maybe they appear to the layman as characters, but they're not.​@@simonspethmann8086

[@danielbugay4033]

as a native speaker I find this video interesting and educating, thank you (:

[@davidsemanas8662]

Very nice. This is so enlightening. Makes Hebrew more understandable and shows its mystical beauty. Thank you.

[@susettemclachlan8765]

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[@juarez4040]

This was wonderfully edited! Great video fr

[@andrewreed4216]

Thankyou for simplifying Something I've tried explaining to others. More of these videos would be great. I love learning about the kabballah for the indepth discussion on words, too.

[@_magnify]

Hey, thanks for the encouragement 🙏 Thinking about doing a series of 22 videos on each individual letter!

[@TruthTVNZ03]

​@@_magnify You should do it man.

[@iamjustafisj]

You are very underrated, so sad that so few see this amazing content!

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

The aleph (at least historically) represents a glottal stop, and the name and symbol comes from Phoenician for ox. In modern Hebrew it might no longer be a consonant and only used to indicate a leading vowel or as a symbol to attach a vowel diacritic to. The idea that all the letters are meaningful in themselves, is some form of mysticism. If aleph has an association with god or the divine that's a more recent association not something that the creator of Hebrew words though of since the original symbol was clearly an ox and it's name meant ox.

[@cigmorfil4101]

My learning was that ayin is a glottal stop, whereas aleph was silent, taking the sound of the vowel - which to me sounds more like a vowel place holder (for a leading vowel).

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

@@cigmorfil4101 probably varies in the different languages and dialects that use alphabets/abjads descended from the Phoenician. But from what I read ʼaleph was a glottal stop (the stop sound in "uh-oh") and `ayin was a glottal fricative (sounds more like straining if your language doesn't have this sound) in Phoenician.

[@vytah]

@@cigmorfil4101 That's modern Hebrew pronunciation. Ancient Hebrew used aleph for glottal stop and ayin for pharyngeal approximant, similar to modern Arabic ayn.

[@billyblackwelliii1197]

Great video! I’ve heard all of this from scattered other sources, but never put together so clearly. Thanks!

[@asmarashanice]

So well taught! More videos on Hebrew like this please!!

[@BlackMytilus]

Hebrew letters are full of magic... Thank you for this interesting video!

[@Legacy_pros]

I appreciate your video explanation... it's noteworthy 📝 It peeks one's natural and spiritual interest to understand the language as an English-speaker.

[@kira..972]

the way you explain that is amazing🥲

[@_Foodie_beauty_]

This is the best channel on youtube. What a gem

[@matthewweimer5861]

Dude, I know you may not see this comment however this video was magnificent. I enjoyed the information as well as the humor.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

I think this is probably the best video I've ever see on YT. Thank you!

[@therongjr]

This feels something like folk etymology when you consider Hebrew is a natural language with a history that fits nearly into that of an the entire Semitic language family.

[@julianhayachid]

Hey, native Hebrew speaker here . I obviously know this story from childhood, and it indeed is cute and uplifting with lots of intriguing examples. However, most often it doesn't work, and you'll need lots of mental acrobatics to maintain it. Once you learn a bit about the development of Semitic languages it kind of falls apart entirely. Still a cool language though.

[@Thanos_Kyriakopoulos]

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I guess silencing is an even better one

[@deannakay6607]

Wow, puts a whole new meaning to God speaking the world into existence!

[@DaveEtchells]

Huh, fascinating stuff - I had no idea about the meanings of Hebrew letters, and how words are constructs from them based on that. It makes me think of Asian pictographic writing like Japanese Kanji. I know almost zero kanji myself, but friends have pointed out how two glyphs might be combined to express a meaning that’s a combination of the two. Also, many Kanji characters are derivations of others with strokes added to expand the meaning. Much of the derivation is lost to antiquity and not that relevant to daily usage, but it’s interesting how it evolved. Great content, I’m a new subscriber 👍😁

[@AkivaB]

as a native Hebrew speaker i can say i didn't know most of this and will probably try to dive into this subject sometime

[@morenndymeus2976]

Interesting subject entirely. Loving it. ❤

[@Bunnyinthebasement]

Interesting video. :) It reminded me of that study where someone noticed that certain Chinese glyphs relate back to the Book of Genesis. For example, the character for “boat” (船) is “vessel” (舟) + “eight” (八) + “mouth” (口) - eight mouths/people in a boat. How many people were in Noah’s Ark? 😉 You might enjoy checking that out if you haven’t already. :)

[@simonspethmann8086]

Where/how do I find/google that? Thank you!

[@Bunnyinthebasement]

@@simonspethmann8086 Look up “Genesis Chinese characters” and you can find things both through Google & on KZbin :) God bless you :)

[@simonspethmann8086]

@@Bunnyinthebasement Thank you! 🙂🙏

[@_magnify]

Ooo interesting tidbit!

[@e.dalikov5641]

Actually, it's 几，which means table. So it's 舟+几+口。

[@snir-music]

As a hebrew speaker, the video is mostly true to the idea about hebrew, but the word "et" is just a preposition.. Not dissimilar from words like at, in, from It is a bit more diverse, depending on context it can mean many dofferent things, still just a preposition.

[@leopoldsimmons4804]

Man, people who don't speak/understand Hebrew truly do be crazy. I get the ideal of the letters forming the meaning, but it really doesn't work like that. When you showed the chart of letters, I honestly ran through tens of words in my head and not one of them makes sense, only the cherry-picked examples rabbis keep talking about. As many people mentioned here, 'et' is a particle which marks the definite direct object of a transitive verb, so the sentence [אלוהים ברא השמיים והארץ] (without the two et's) wouldn't make sense. Do you know what the Hebrew word for Nylon is? It's ניילון, which spelt phonetically in English is “Nylon”. It was just taken from English, like a growing per cent of modern Hebrew words. This language isn't special, but people who want to make it seem special, so you join their religion, will present it as such. Also, you said דבר means both word and thing which is incorrect, it means thing, has spoken (male, ktiv haser), and speak (command). to speak would be לדבר. so not quite the same thing. The word for word is מילה, which btw doesn't make sense with your letter table spooky magic thing. Also also, you mispronounced most of the Hebrew words you said, but it's fine since the rabbis did too (-_-).

[@peterwyetzner5276]

Good point about religion, though in this case it seems that a lot of the audience is actually Christian; and to be fair, this sort of material- like Gematria and Bible codes- seems to be pitched at both evangelical and ba'al teshuva audiences who overlap more than they used to. Also, in the Torah at least דבר can mean "word", as in for example דברי ריבות בשעריך.

[@leopoldsimmons4804]

@@peterwyetzner5276 Yeah, that's true. I guess my point was that generally if someone asked me how to say word in hebrew I would never say דבר...

[@dustinburlet7249]

Fantastic video - I thoroughly appreciate the quality of your material and the engaging way you present it I am curious, however, how you prevent engaging within exegetical fallacies as delineated by, let's say, Baxter and Carson Thoughts?

[@eizelangel3356]

Beautifully explained ❤❤❤

[@drdalet]

The philosophical implications of the Hebrew text is indeed amazing. However, the canaanite (phoenician) alphabet had a beginning and that was for a large part with Egyptian hieroglyphics as an example. The Egyptians called them 'Godly carvings'. Hieroglyphs are linked to the Egyptian language but they made words with the same idea. So the name for the goddess Hathor comes from Het-Horus and actually means "the house of Horus", because Hathor was the mother of Horus. With the Canaanite alphabet words were constructed the same way: combination of individual letters give us information of how we name a certain things. Of course this was lost when other languages adopted the phoenician (canaanite) alphabet. Greeks and Etruscans were the first, where the letters lost their individual meaning. However, the Hebrew language, basically a canaanite dialect, still shows us this idea and fortunately the Hebrew language kept this idea in its aleph-beth. It is powerful and makes the Hebrew Bible a philosophical literary gem. Even for non religious people.

[@Yatsi-mz3yb]

Please make a regular video like this again

[@Pongant]

Love your videos, wish there were more!

[@yehonatanroth9467]

this is just cimpletly wrong, as someone who has been speaking hebrew for his entire life i know that this is wrong.

[@avrahamscher1356]

there's lots of truth to his research too, as a hebrew speaker as well

[@johnnym1234]

Can you explain why? "I know its wrong" is simply not enough

[@zachmcwilliams8412]

I’ve been speaking English my whole life and yet, I don’t claim to say someone is wrong without an explanation. Care to elaborate? I’d venture to say most people watching this, and other similar videos, are trying to learn Hebrew. With that said, if somethings wrong maybe assist other viewers so we can understand.

[@chalabread]

@@zachmcwilliams8412Native Hebrew speaker here! The video is completely right, the only thing wrong is some of the pronunciation but he is American you can’t expect people to pronounce everything in a foreign language right

[@excancerpoik]

we need more longer videos great content

[@atursams5501]

Nice work, the word for womb is re-hem, betten is stomach. AFAIK

[@BesserGlauben]

Alef is not silent, it is a glottal stop. It also doesn't mean audience, it means cattle. "In the house" is also not "bei-beit" but "ba-bayit" (transliterated for english speakers: bah-bahyeet)

[@eeminieminen6657]

7:18 that just sounds like overanalyzing. If the את meant the alphabet in that context, the sentence would be grammatically incorrect as השמים would lose its direct object marker. If the author really wanted to say that, the sentence would be something like בראשית ברא אלוהים, את, את השמים, ואת הארץ

[@allysonpatino9892]

This video is so well done thank you

[@margo1628]

Appreciate this beautiful film! You are making Jerusalem a praise. :) I dig the meaning of את as, potentially, "with" .. showing us that "GD's first way of creating is WiTH REALiTY." aka "[since] the beginning, GD created WiTH the Heavens and the Earth". Because .. as if they're done, rite?! The Creation of the Human character can only happen in this lovely biosphere & all of it's vicissitudes.

[@poesc]

Very fascinating video

[@gailback6922]

Thank you, I have appreciated your teaching so much. Please do some more when you are able to, because I feel that this is ‘fodder’ for so many people seeking to dive deeper into the meaning of God’s Word! 🇮🇱including me.

[@RoaringJaguar]

Amazing video! Thank you ❤

[@Holy.HannaH]

Honestly, if folks understood this better then they understand life and the world around them much much better. Its not just akin to chemical formulas, its akins to both quantum physics as well as DNA. Its freaking fascinating!

[@DoodiePunk]

@2:30 They'll pronounce them beveten and bevet. The /b/ gets spirantized.

[@igorjee]

The issue is, that these are Aramaic letters adopted in Bovel, before then Jews used the Old Hebrew script whose only descendant is the Samaritan script.

[@matthewkopp2391]

The concept obviously was carried over to Greek philosophy as Heraclitus said the Logos (word) was the central pillar of the world and the order of the cosmos, Then Neo-Platonist Christianity with the Logos made flesh. It is interesting to know this. I looked up the meaning system of letter/numbers in Pythagoreanism and it is similar to Hebrew Letter/number meaning.

[@isaiahclark526]

This is so fascinating

[@TheBackyardProfessor]

VERY cool video!!!!

[@נועםלוי-י1ו]

Thank you for this video - that was super interesting

[@bigsybel9105]

Brilliantly done, I'm Jewish and learning Hebrew and I just love the nuances of the language, this makes it a lot clearer!! Also, if there's any other linguistics nerds in the comments, quick fun fact: See that bull being used as a pictograph for the Aleph? This traces back to an ancestor language of both the Hebrew alphabet (or alefbet) and the Latin-derived alphabet now used in English. The letter A comes from a pictograph of a bull rotated upside down, with the two prongs at the bottom serving as horns. This is also the reason the first two letters are phonetically the same in both languages, and why the words 'alefbet' and 'alphabet' sound almost exactly the same. Crazy how the connections work, isn't it?

[@Thingsandcosas]

And then it’s weird how no words that I know for bull start with aleph, or A..Shor in Hebrew, toro in Spanish

[@bigsybel9105]

@@Thingsandcosas huh, good point!! i never thought of that but you're right, ox or bull don't either. i wonder why...

[@AhJodie]

I love this!

[@dethornedrose]

This is so cool ❤ Thank you so much for putting the effort and time into this video it is so well done

[@yokab]

The word for "Womb" is not "Beten" בטן - Beten means stomach, the word for womb is "Rehem" - רחם, which has the same source as רחמים - mercy

[@موسى_7]

Same in Arabic. Almost exactly the same language.

[@sagiyam9555]

Hello , I gotta say as a Hebrew speaker as a main language this was totally fascinating to watch, but I have a question, how is the letter nun (נ) is related to seed ?

[@emilybrazzel6097]

Fantastic video!

[@kylecarter1599]

I was expecting a restaruant plug when he started talking about the aleph and nun being a garden. I'll let you figure out wich one.

[@xpired5328]

as a Muslim the connections to Arabic are astounding!

[@proxagonal5954]

Arabic and Hebrew have a lot of similarities given their origins. Also a lot of words that sound almost the same!

[@xpired5328]

@@proxagonal5954 ikr this is very cool

[@trcmf]

I bought a book about 20 years ago that taught how to read and write and understand the ancient Hebrew alphabet. I wanted to learn this so I could better understand the OT. I’ve never used it but it still sits on my book shelf. I’ve made sure I brought it with me and I knew where it was every time I’ve moved. As a matter of fact, it’s no more than 10 feet away from where I sit now. This video has inspired me to finally pick that book up and use it.

[@Feezwa]

@trcmf Do it. Start! My first encounter with Hebrew was several years ago in a biblical lecture of Old Testament, and recently a sudden light inside has driven me, out of nowhere, to seek and learn the letters and to seriously start studying the Old Testament. One thought inside my mind said to me that it's going to be too complicated and stop before starting, and right after this thought, another thought came into my heart and assured me I am watched over and start doing it because help will be granted. Immediately my heart felt joy of the second thought. So....taking the courage to pray and start doing it! Godspeed to you!

[@_magnify]

Oh nice! Chabad.org has a great free resource too called Letters of Light that does a great job at making each letter memorable.

[@Feezwa]

@@_magnify Greatly appreciated. Thank you !

[@mariajjenkins]

What is the title of this book?

[@rickyspanish9071]

​@@mariajjenkins I too would like to know

[@tTtMtTt]

Let me explain as a native Hebrew speaker, "את" is a preposition with no direct English translation. In the Bible it is mainly used as a Definiteness , so the closest translation is the word "the", in modern Hebrew it can still be used for that, but it usually appears together with " ה"א הידיעה " (He of Definiteness). Today the word "את" usually appears as an inflection and its meaning is "with"

[@tesilab994]

Three comments. 1. In biblical hebrew it sometimes means "with", as in "ויתהלך חנוך את האלקים" (Hanoch walked with G-d). 2. It usually appears the definite article heh, not just in modern Hebrew but in biblical Hebrew as well, and 3. Biblical exegetists find additonal meaning in its inclusion, treating it as not absolutely mandated by grammar, therefore included to hint that there is an additional case included not explicitly mentioned in the text. For example "כבד את אביך ואת אמך" (Honor your father and mother) uses the construct, thus implying that there is someone else not explicitly mentioned who should also be honored (taken to be older brother, for example).

[@tTtMtTt]

@@tesilab994 So I will start with the third claim, first of all you wrote "עת" which means "time" and this is not true both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy it says "את" with א' so check your spelling. As I wrote, "את" is a word that indicates known and comes with the known God, but your father and your mother are already known words in Hebrew because they come with an inflection, like in English you don't say the -your father or the -your mother, so "את" comes alone without ה' (=the) I honestly can't understand the second claim, maybe it's a translation gap. Regarding the first claim, yes "את" without an inflection can be used to denote the word "with" , but this usually only happens with names in modern Hebrew because that's how it was used in the Bible. I didn't mention it because in the examples in the video he tried to prove that "את" is not translated

[@tzvi7989]

It's a definite direct object marker

[@moonhunter9993]

@@tzvi7989 also indicating accusative case then (someone else said this)? In German you would use a specifically changed article to indicate the direct object: for many words that might be "den"

[@tzvi7989]

@@moonhunter9993 yeah but only in that way

[@shirakrause8160]

As a native Hebrew speaker (it is my first language), I am always fascinated by how the language is views from outsider point of views. I have to say, the video was quite well done! Despite some pronounciation differences (which is understandable), you have a lot of grasp on the language. Despite being a Hebrew speaker, I am still a modern speaker and am not fluent in the biblical language. Even though we read and learn it, biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew are quite different in how they are wrriten, and even more so in how they are spoken. So although my knowledge isn't the best in this field, as I am not a religious person, I still have some small corrections: The word for 'thing', 'davar' (דבר), and the word for 'word' aren't the same word. The word for 'word' is actually 'Mila' (מילה). The actual connection is between the word 'thing' and the word 'speaking/speak', which has a root of D.V.R (ד.ב.ר). A root, or 'shoresh' (שורש) in hebrew, is the base letter structure for different verbs. There are ways to use those letters and put vows before, after and between them to create new words with a collective meaning, like for example, the difference between passive and active un English. The connection is still interesting, for god spoke and thus created. Another small thing, the Beten (בטן) is reffering to the stomach, more them to the womb. There is a different word for womb in hebrew, which is Rechem (רחם). And when it comes to 'Et'... It is hard to explain to a non hebrew speaker because it's meaning and use is so unconscious at this point for me. It's a word that connects an act to it's reciever, I think would be the best way to explain it. In English, you might translate it to an 'a' or a 'the' before a word, like 'god created the sky'. All in all, this was a very interesting, very well explained video! I hope my explanations are ok, I am still a teen and so lack some knowledge in the grammar area's of Hebrew, so bare that in mind and feel free to correct me😊

[@rtg8709]

אחי עברית תנכית שונה, דבר יכול להיות גם מילה או משפט , למשל "דברי המלך", מילות המלך, וגם בטן יכול גם להיות מיוחס לרחם לדוגמא , "פרי בטנה".

[@shirakrause8160]

@@rtg8709 תודה על התיקון😅 אני מניחה שדיברתי על המילים לפי המשמעות המודרנית הכי נפוצה שלהן.

[@dennis1790]

@@rtg8709 אני עדיין לא מבין אבל כיצד אפשר לפרש את "בראשית ברא אלוהים את" בתור האלף-בית, הרי אפילו בשפה תנכית אם המילה "את" הייתה מיוחסת לשם עצם כשלעצמו אז המשפט לא היה תקין יותר.

[@eladthehatter]

A small correction for the small correction - Beten is belly, the word for stomach is Keiva (קיבה).

[@rabbi2290]

​@@dennis1790זה מיסטיסיזם תנכי, התנך ידוע בזה שניתן לתת לו פרשנויות שמתנגשות אחת עם השנייה, זה הבסיס לתושב"ע.

[@לבריאותיאחמוד]

Well the word את (et) is actually a very common word in the Hebrew language, the reason why it's not translated in the bible because it is a function word that had no English parallel, what it basically means is quite hard to explain to a non Hebrew speaker but basically if you want to say that you're doing a certain action to someone then for example if I say that I love a specific person called Max Then in English I would simply say "I love max" but in Hebrew you'd say "Ani ohev et Max) Translating that sentence word for word To English it would be Ani = I ohev=love et=? Max So you can't just say Ani ohev max You must add that word et So in the example we have in the bible When it says that "god created the heavens and the earth then in Hebrew you have to add that word את in order to make that accurate grammatically speaking

[@bookmouse2719]

Yes, it means specifically. Learned this in Ulpon. Never-the-less it has an alternate meaning here of aleph to tov.

[@bresitfox74]

have you understood what he meant when he said God created the Alphabet in the very first sentence? 'Cause to what i can see, we don't ignore the word, we may not translate the word but we translate the sense (which is part of translation, as word-for-word would get confusing). B:rešhit bara AElohim et HaŠhamajim w:et HaAraez i don't see where there is an Alphabet here? Why then just here, if - i just guess - et is one of the most frequent words in the old testament and i'm sure there are similiar usages here...

[@_magnify]

Yep, good explanation. In addition to the grammatical function you were describing here, many rabbis teach that את also serves a ceremonial function.

[@yarnmisery]

accusative case 🤦‍♂️

[@manifestasisanubari]

Right, saying that את (et) has a meaning is like saying Japanese は (wa)/が (ga) and Hawaiian 'o have meaning too.

[@slightlyopinionated8107]

You’re the Vsauce of language

[@benw9949]

One point: In the video, he says English nouns (or words generally) are random. That's no more or less true for Hebrew (or Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, any other language). All languages are simultaneously somewhat random sets of sounds for each word, yet also they have root meanings behind them which are carried over from earlier times, their ancestry in languages. House, in the example, goes back to a Germanic root word for a house, a building. Beth in Hebrew meaning a house or building also goes back to a Semitic language root. Take these further back, and some words are innovations at some point, and then develop meanings along the way, while others go very far back but may change meanings slightly or drastically over time. So In one sense, sure, they're random groups of sounds for a word, but in another, they typically go back for hundreds or even thousands of years. Occasionally, a new word becomes more popular for a given concept, so it takes over, or words may change meanings, split, or become rare and die out.

[@weirdlanguageguy]

Exactly. The linguistics in this video are off, to say the least

[@michaelmicek]

It is less true for Hebrew for the reason explained. It's not obvious in the "modern" (less than 2500 year old) square script, but the old letters look like the things they mean. (He flashes a chart up which shows them). So the written language, rather than being just phonetic (like Greek, etc) or just pictographic (like Chinese), is both. A naturalistic hypothesis might be that a group of rather intelligent slaves made up a secret language (a conlang) to exchange messages among themselves, using a few hieroglyphics as a starting point. So it looks intelligently designed because (like the banana) it was.

[@weirdlanguageguy]

@@michaelmicek that's not really the case. The old Hebrew letters, called paleo-Hebrew, was borrowed from (and is nearly identical to) the Phoenician script. The letters look like the objects they were named after precisely because they were developed from a photographic script, viz. hieroglyphics. It's not a secret conlang (its simply a writing system, Hebrew and Canaanitic were languages long before the advent of writing), and it's not unique to Hebrew because the script wasnt even originally used for hebrew. Thus, the spelling of Hebrew words reveals no hidden meaning based on the letter shapes: hebrew words already meant what they did before writing came to record it, and the objects and shapes used to create the Phoenician script were completely arbitrary.

[@ליאורו-ט3ו]

​@@weirdlanguageguy Highly agree with you, as a native speaker, I felt that he barely any research. When he said about the supposed random creation of English words (which is wrong), I thought he would talk about how the Hebrew root system works. Well too bad that I expected he would actually do research. Instead he went on about the connection between the letter and how it looks. While yes, it's true, he then starts connect it to the words themselves which at that point has crossed line from just not based on research but based on speculation that slightly related to reality to complete pseudo science not backed up by anything. Proof of that is the wrong pronounciation and the wrong translations (for example, בטן means stomach but he translated it to womb somehow). And the part where he starts talking about את is where it's only random rambling, because את is the definite object marker and has no equivalent to English and because of it shouldn't be translated, and it got absouletly nothing to do with א to ת. Anyways, it feels like the video was either made out of speculations or out of unreliable sources (considering that in the video appears a rabbi who isn't neccesary an actual Hebrew speaker, I wouldn't be surprised why the video is so inaccurate)

[@weirdlanguageguy]

@@ליאורו-ט3ו good to hear a native speaker confirm this! Esoteric pseudolinguistics has unfortunately been a mainstay in certain religious circles for centuries.

[@jeopardy60611]

The word for "sex" is "min," spelled "mem, yud, nun sofit." That means "Water, work/deed, seed." You do the work/deed to get your seed in the water. That really fits!

[@LanceAbrams]

Linguistically, the reason "את" doesn't have a direct translation is because it's a direct object marker, a linguistic feature we don't have in English. It would be like trying to translate our indefinite articles "a" and "an" into Hebrew; it's a grammatical feature they don't have, so it wouldn't have a direct translation.

[@MrConsto]

That is not true given there are many places in the Tanakh where a direct object pointer should have been used and it is not or where it ought not be used and it is. The great scholars of the past were leaning to the et as having divine significance. It all changed when the southern kingdom living in Jerusalem killed the suffering servant of Isaiah 52

[@givemeabreak5896]

@@MrConsto It's just a direct object marker... (I speak Hebrew) זה לא משהו מיוחד, זה רק מייצג את האובייקט במשפט. יש לך דוגמאות של התנך שאמורות להראות את זה?

[@mlcatlin]

See Japanese: は “wa” is the topic marker が “ga” is a subject marker を “(w)o” is an object marker ^ none of which have direct translations in English but rather are incorporated into English grammar. Japanese also doesn’t have definite and indefinite articles like ‘the’ and ‘a/an’ - this information is gained from context. Example: 日 “ni” is Sun. 本 “hon” is Origin (in context). 日本 “nihon” is Japan “Land of the Raising Sun”. 語 “go” is Language (in context). 日本語 “nihongo” is Japanese “Language of the Land of the Raising Sun”. Another example: 木 “ki” is Tree. 森 “mori” is Woods/Forrest. Noticed how 本 is a 木 cut at its Origin? 本 in other context means Book or Books because 日本語 doesn’t have singular/plural nouns (except in specific instances such as definitely specifying a group entity, not a singular entity).

[@Ajehy]

Reminds me of Japanese Kanji. 春秋 (Shinjuu) means “year/age”, and is made up of the kanji for “spring/prime/puberty” and “Autumn/season/time”

[@notwithouttext]

but then there's the ateji "i like to eat longevity-administer"

[@sasino]

Japanese Kanji are a subset of Chinese characters, the Chinese invented most of them

[@brighthades5968]

@@notwithouttext why are you everywhere lol

[@notwithouttext]

@@brighthades5968 intersection of videos you watch and videos i comment on has population of at least 3

[@frank_calvert]

only difference is each of those actually have meaning, whereas this is just looking too far into coincedences

[@crosos]

The argument this video poses is meaningless. As a native Hebrew speaker, this whole video is nonsense. For example, the word “את” has no translation to English since it is a grammatical quirk that English simply doesn’t have, the word has no meaning by itself just like the indefinite article “a” has no meaning by itself. Your claim that you can tell the meaning of a word just by looking at it is completely baseless. As with all human languages, Hebrew has evolved and changed over time, and new words have been created to accommodate new concepts and environments. Not a single person who knows a thing or two about linguistics and who’s mother tongue is Hebrew will take this video seriously. Not to mention that the Hebrew bible was not even written with the modern Hebrew alphabet but with the paleo Hebrew script, the alphabet we use today is merely a product of the Aramaic script and its adaption to the Hebrew language. I really hope you take this video down, it’s just spreading misinformation.

[@Ella-dx6ll]

A few corrections: first, the letter don't have meaning. In Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism, the letters have meaning. In the language itself, and for most Jews and Hebrew speaker, the letters don't have meaning. Also, for 1:31, א does have a sound - a glottal stop. It's a sound you don't have in English. Another thing: את (et) is a preposition. It specifies what you are talking about and is a past of Hebrew grammar.

[@greenstarlover1]

Unless it's numerical meanings, but that's an whole other topic.

[@eyalklino6476]

As a Hebrew speaker, I must say that the word את (et) is a utalitarian word - it denotes the object of the sentence (a few other words can do this depending on the verb, but it is the most neutral one, as it does not have any meaning outside of that, unlike the others). It is untranslated because it is not necessary in nost languages, as the object is understood through the order of the words in the sentence or by changing the pronounciation of the word. All that is not to say it is impossible that it does represent more, I'm not a biblical scholar, but the word את is so common (and necessary for the sentence to make sense: בראשית ברא אלוהים השמיים והארץ is a nonsensical sentence) I don't believe it has a deeper meaning in this occurrence.

[@adrianblake8876]

This is not biblical scholarly, this is jewish mysticism, and makes less sense when you look at it more closely... Famous example, te hebrew verb לספר means both to tell a story and to cut hair (the initial lamed just means “to“). There is no explanation whatsoever as to why that is...

[@seanvogel8067]

@@adrianblake8876, you mean you haven’t found an explanation? Have you ever been in a barbershop or beauty salon?

[@adrianblake8876]

@@seanvogel8067 the one which the barber gossips!? Heard about it, but it's like "the ear gives balance“, a folk etymology at best...

[@eladthehatter]

Actually, the example you gave might be grammatically correct and bare the same meaning as with "et". I say might because it is still debated among scholars if "et" is necessary. Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, had a public stance against using "et", like he had nothing more urgent to deal with.

[@eyalklino6476]

@@eladthehatter I mean, sure? Technically? But not really, and that is not a commonly used sentence structure in the Bible at all. But, again, I don't hold strong opinions about this, I think it's a nice idea and is enjoyable, even if I don't think it's true per say

[@tomerpriel]

interesting. I am Israeli, a native Hebrew speaker. I have never heard of this concept.

[@abmrose]

Naming something carries the meaning of having authority (dominion) over it. So by speaking it into being, this shows God’s dominion over all of creation ❤ I really like this introduction to the Hebrew language! Thank you, it’s inspired me to learn more.

[@sarahisatitagain]

That's also why people, after medieval times, started adding middle names tho their kids. The middle name was kinda of a secret , and nobody would tell their middle names to untrustworthy people because it meant they could be cursed by the person who knew their whole name. That's also why when you watch a movie about possession, the prist will command the demon to say it's name and submit to the will of the prist, a representative of God on earth.

[@pumkin610]

Hmm yes naming something is sort of an ownership thing. In this way you get to choose something about something else.

[@SlashsBluesBall]

and it also shows our dominion over all living creatures, given God Himself told us to name them all.

[@00SEVEN28]

And it just solidifies me that we imagined this authorship since we made language.

[@nathanbell6962]

Is that why we don't know God's true name?

[@whatno5090]

et is the direct object marker, which exists in many languages such as japanese (wo). In a sense it is translated every single time; its just that instead of translating it into a word, its translated into syntax.

[@adrianblake8876]

Funny thing is it says so on the screen when he shows the table... DirObjM (5:10 in blue)

[@whatno5090]

@Adrian Blake he does but i still don't like the way the video is framed

[@adrianblake8876]

@@whatno5090 It's introducing jewish mysticism, which has many plot holes. He explained “b“ means “in“ because the letter means “house“, but if the letter “l“ means royalty and “g“ means giving, why is “l“ the preposion of “to“ and not “g“? And it doesn't explain unrelated homonyms or basic root word. (the etymology of garden in hebrew js that it comes from the word “protect“, not that it's a combo of letters “give seed"...

[@biggflozo999]

The Aleph Tav את isn’t just a thing. The Aleph Tav את is very very important for us. Yahawahshi HaMashiach את is the ET את. Proper name meaning or just proper names period are very very important to know whom we are referring to, taking to or about. Respect for the name is the up most important. “If are MADE in HIS image then CALL US BY OUR NAME!” Ericka Badu

[@DivineDestiny77]

@@adrianblake8876Good points.

[@andreasjoannai6441]

2:16 Correction; it's actually pronounced /ˈbæjɪθ/, not /ˈbejɛt/

[@CosmicRideMusic]

Please make a million more videos. Absolutely astounded by both the information and the delivery. You are fantastic at this. I'll be watching.

[@susettemclachlan8765]

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[@simi2174]

Hebrew speaker here, this isnt true at all. Lets go through it slowly. Aleph does have a pronouciation, you just need to add a nikud to it, but even without it the latter can add sound and change pronouciation. Aleph doesnt mean anything with god, for example the word ארון just means clouset despite starting with aleph. Beit doesnt mean house, for example the word בנתיים mean "as for now". Lamed isnt royalty, for example the word לא just means "no"... nothing royal about it... also בבל does not mean 2 royal houses it is just a name... if that is so than בלבל (meaning "cofused") just means 2 royal house too right? And what about the word "לבלב" that has a diffrent meaning than "בלבל"? (that means "pancreas") what a stupid thing to say... If אב is a connection to god or thing than אבל (meaning, "despide") is a ROYAL connection to god right? wat? where are you even getting this crap? Also דבר is not both "word" and "thing". דבר can be read diffrently depending on nikud as either "davar" (thing) or "daber" (a command to speak). the word for "word" is NOT דבר but rather מילה (wow words are royal apperantly! There is a lamed!) Also on 4:52 this isnt a nun, this is an ending nun. This is nun: נ, this is an ending nun: ן, its not the same. Also nun isnt a seed, for example the word נמאס means that you are sick and tried of something. Gimel isnt a gift, the freaking word for gift is מתנה and there is no gimel in it... also גדר for example just means a fence... now we get to את, this is an acuall word that is just missing from english and that is why it wasnt translated. just like some languages does not have the words "am, is, are". the rabbai is just explaining some cool hidden meaning in that word but that does not explain why it wasnt translated, its just a cool way to look at it. mem does not mean water, for example מרדים is an ajective that means that something makes you fall asleep. Basiclly, you can give like million diffrent meaning to every latter and it would look sort of fine, this is all made up and no hebrew speaker would ever know this kind of stuff and this isnt how we come up with new words. Its acually tought in high school in Israel how we come up with new words and there are 3 ways and non of them are with the stupid latter hidden meaning or some crap.

[@adryanlucas096]

Wait there's rules on how you guys create words in Hebrew? That's cool! Could you tell them if it won't bother you

[@greenstarlover1]

​​@@adryanlucas096 Grammer basically - verbs for example, are made of a root of commonly 3 letters, which you can fit into seven different verbs templates (we call them "buildings" in rough translation), each fit to a different context (or create another meaning entirely, for example - some templates create passive verbs while others create active ones). No to mention each "building" has variations depending on the tense, gender, and prounon used. Basically, two verbs can have the same basic root, but mean different things. In some quirky scenarios, you can have two _identical_ sounding words, but both have different tense, pronoun, and even an entire different meaning. And you can only tell which one is which with context. Languages are quirky basically.

[@greenstarlover1]

​​​​@@adryanlucas096not to mention, a lot of latin words got "Hebrew'd"(?) in the last decades since its modernisation (if not straight up moved over with on changes). The whole revival let to a lot of new terms to be invented to fit to modern day. It's basic evolution of language. But to elaborate further- nouns get transferred in the most. Most stay in their original form, and are qoute unquote "unofficial". But, if a new word get so popular it earns a verb representation, then you know it is truely successed in intergrating into the hebrew lexicon. It's the grand prize basically.

[@nothingtoseemiano9895]

Here from the tiktok wanting to learn more

[@rc....]

Tik Tok and wanting to learn more doesn't even sound real in the same sentence 😂

[@PETERJOHN101]

If you are here from TikTok you will have to unlearn virtually everything.

[@DaveEtchells]

Ah - that explains how he has so many subscribers with only 5 videos. Interesting stuff!

[@susettemclachlan8765]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZWQqZ6IedxppM0

[@seanvogel8067]

@@PETERJOHN101 😂

[@durere]

I'm half way through, and I have to point out that, somewhat ironically, another language whose words work by stacking meanings is German. Also English to some extent. Most of them, really. Thank you for enlightening me about the Hebrew alphabet tho, I will look more into it, I'm quite intrigued.

[@4rtie]

Regarding the second half of the video, et is just the Hebrew language's direct object marker. We translate it in English with syntax (because we don't have a direct object marker) by changing "In the beginning created God the Heavens and the Earth" to "...God created the Heavens and the Earth". The idea that it represents the aleph bet is just a kabbalistic theory.

[@durere]

@@4rtie So like a conspiracy theory. I watched all of it, and to be completely honest, the guy is a bit too smug for me to lend much credence to his words.

[@4rtie]

@@durere not really a conspiracy theory, just an interpretation that isn't nearly as certain as his confidence in presentation would lend you to believe.

[@durere]

@@4rtie Took it with a grain of salt anyway, if it were really so, it would shake the very foundation of how many people see the world, and I would find it hard to believe that it flew over so many heads so far. But I do like to entertain wild ideas.

[@tzvi7989]

​​@@durere in addition to this, the actual english translation of genesis 1:1 is "when God started/began to create the heavens and the earth" as opposed to in the beginning. The word "bereshit" is always mistranslated here. It does not mean in the beginning, it literally means at first. Grammatically speaking here it's also a dependent clause as it doesn't start with a verb. It starts with a prepositional adverb

[@xirdaish9082]

Hebrew letters don't have any secret meaning, it's pseudolinguistics. This alphabet descended from a variety of Aramaic script, which descended from Phoenician (alongside Greek), which descended from Proto-Sinaitic script, and ultimately from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Of course, hieroglyphs had their meaning, but the descendant scripts were alphabets/abjads/abugidas, which means that the descendat letters had only phonetic value, and lost their original meanings. Hebrew script is one of these descendants, and is not that unique to find some hidden meanings behind the letters. The words of Hebrew language were not created by uniting "mystical meanings" of letters together because Hebrew language predates the Hebrew script, and the language itself is a part of a Semitic language family, which means that other languages in this family have etymologically related words. I am not blaming the creator of this video in discussing a pseudoscientific topic, as I can see, the creator knows more about the Bible studies than linguistics. Linguistics studies languages, and the way which was discussed in the video is not the way how languages work, according to actual scientific research.

[@KenJackson_US]

You're right that it originally started with Egyptian hieroglyphs, but Dr.Douglas Petrovich figured out that the Proto-Sinaitic script was in fact Hebrew. He decoded carvings that had previously untranslated. So in fact, all other phonetic alphabets on earth descend from Hebrew. The Alphabet is a gift from God.

[@xirdaish9082]

​@Ken Jackson From 1000 BCE to 135 CE, a script called Paleo-Hebrew was used to record the original scripts of the Tanakh. Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets are two slight regional variants of the same script. The Samaritans, who remained in the Land of Israel, continued to use the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. During the 3rd century BCE, Jews began to use a stylized, "square" form of the Aramaic alphabet that was used by the Persian Empire (and which in turn had been adopted from the Assyrians), while the Samaritans continued to use a form of the paleo-Hebrew script called the Samaritan alphabet. After the fall of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE, Jews used both scripts before settling on the square Assyrian form. The square Hebrew alphabet was later adapted and used for writing languages of the Jewish diaspora - such as Karaim, the Judeo-Arabic languages, Judaeo-Spanish, and Yiddish. The Hebrew alphabet continued in use for scholarly writing in Hebrew and came again into everyday use with the rebirth of the Hebrew language as a spoken language in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in Israel. Your words "The Alphabet is a gift from God" reveal your religious point of view, whereas my point of view is secular and scientific. The idea of the letters' creative power finds its greatest vehicle in the Sefer Yezirah, a mystical text of uncertain origin which describes a story of creation highly divergent from that in the Book of Genesis, largely through exposition on the powers of the letters of the alphabet. The supposed creative powers of the letters are also referenced in the Talmud and Zohar. Scholars usually do not agree with this. Moreover, I heard similar things about various other scripts: In Ynglism, a sect of Rodnovery, it is believed that Bukvitsa, a modified version of Cyrillic created by the sect, was used by "Slav-Aryans" since ancient times, each letter carries a mystical meaning, and "universe development code" is encoded within them. Here is also the example of something similar, but with Latin letters: englishcode.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the-secret-meaning-of-english-letters-s/ Now, onto Douglas Petrovich: According to Mark A. Hassler's review of his book "The world's oldest script", Petrovich’s conclusions needle at multiple critical presuppositions sometimes found among disciples of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. Not everyone will agree with all of Petrovich’s interpretive decisions on a variety of fronts, such as the identification of the glyphs and letters, the direction of writing (e.g. sinistrograde versus dextrograde), and of course, the transcriptions, translations, and historical significance. To date, adversarial critiques of Petrovich’s work have come from Alan Millard, Christopher Rollston, and Thomas Schneider, to whom Petrovich has posted open responses on his Academia profile page (thebibleseminary.academia.edu/DouglasPetrovich). Did the author accomplish his goal? Time will tell. As Petrovich puts it, “Final judgment as to the accuracy of [my] findings should be reserved for three, four, or five decades after publication, not determined hastily” (p. xiii). The summary Petrovich gives of his work offers little that can support his assertions. He declares that he came to believe that Hebrew is the language ‘behind the proto-consonantal script … by weighing the options systematically and allowing the context of various inscriptions to determine which option is correct’, without further explanation. A glance at his Figure 6 shows how dubious his process is. In that text, Sinai 375a, the writing seems to run from the right edge of the stone around the top and down the left side, with some letters below the first few. Petrovich finds the biblical name Ahisamach by reading the first three letters from right to left, then the three below them. Other letters stand in a vertical column with a couple of hieroglyphs among them. The arrangement is odd! No words are cited to prove the texts are in Hebrew. In fact, Hebrew and Canaanite written in consonantal script may be indistinguishable.

[@KenJackson_US]

​@@xirdaish9082: _"No words are cited to prove the texts are in Hebrew."_ I've watched seven of Dr.Petrovich's lectures posted on KZbin in which he describes these in detail. He says he obsessively rotated the 22 hieroglyphs though each of the 22 Hebrew letters in turn and attempted to fit every word in the oldest know Hebrew lexicons and came up with one mapping that made sense. Further, the writings made sense in light of the history written in the Bible. Thank you for some historical context. You're clearly a scholar and I'm not. Though you didn't mention the 19th century BC when the script was invented. Nor the 15th century BC when Moses used it to write the Pentateuch. *Xirdaish:* _"Your words 'The Alphabet is a gift from God' reveal your religious point of view, whereas my point of view is secular and scientific."_ What I mean by that is that with all great inventions in history, usually one person had the spark of the non-obvious idea that makes the invention possible. Later, when others see it, it may _seem_ obvious, but nobody else thought of it, so it wasn't. In this case, the timing is right that in may have been Joseph who had that spark. He knew both Egyptian and Hebrew. And God spoke to him in dreams. It's quite possible that God gave him that spark of an idea in a dream. In which case the very first idea of a phonetic alphabet was literally given as a gift from God. But even if it wasn't given in a dream and even if it wasn't Joseph, Dr.Petrovich gave evidence that some of the writing involved his sons, so one of _them_ likely had that initial spark of an idea from which all other phonetic alphabets on earth flowed. The significance of such a crucial gift flowing from God through the Hebrews shouldn't be missed. And in fact, disdain for the Bible or hatred of Jews may well be the motive to dismiss its true origin.

[@shaniamibar5459]

I really love your videos, but I often notice mistakes in your translation of Hebrew words and in some of the information presented. to name a few: - Aleph isn't completely silent, and it is absolutely a consonant and has a pronunciation. - Beten (בטן) means belly or stomach, rechem (רחם) is womb. - Et (את) can't be translated because there is no grammatical need for it to exist in English (technically there is no *need* for it in Hebrew, it just makes sentences clearer, but still it has no meaning of its own, it's a direct object marker). edit: i see you've responded to someone else about et being taught by rabbi's to have an alternative meaning, that's really interesting, tho I wonder if thise rabbi's are native Hebrew speakers or not. that sounds like an explanation for a lack of a translation more than a biblical analysis

[@jonahs92]

כמובן שהם לא דוברים ילידיים, זה ברור מהמבטאות שלהם

[@O.Sea.D]

Beten is stomach or belly, womb in Hebrew is Rehem רחם Comes from the word "rahem" means to feel grace or mercy for someone.

[@_magnify]

Good info! Biblical Hebrew uses both. From a modern perspective it seems like בטן is used more for generally "abodomen/belly" and רחם specifically for the uterus, but I would need to look more into what the anatomical understanding was at the time.

[@O.Sea.D]

@@_magnify Its fascinating! Keep on the good work 🙂

[@desertgerbil7589]

As a native Hebrew speaker, I can say, mind blown (I may have learned about it as a 6 year old to some extent when I learned my aleph bet).

[@silasfrisenette9226]

This sounds a lot more like an interpretation of it after the fact. A lot of these word I presume go back to protoforms which sounded much different, and the idea of letters resembling things was for sure more practical and happenstange than "deeply meaningful" at first. For example, the alef is not silent, and the original pronounciation was indeed not silent either. It is possible or plausible that these connections could have altered the words (if for example the word for garden was gam, not gan, and the interpretation changed the latter letter), though even this I have a hard time seeing as something common. As a historical linguist I think this is a fun "exercise" and a cool interpretation, but it isn't really how languages work scientifically. We rarely just "create" words like that, especially basic words such as father, garden, etc. In the case of father, it's quite clearly a Lullwort, a nursery word, containing simple consonants that children can easily make (compare any other language, usually showing something like bilabial plus a or vice versa). The kids didn't consider what alef would have signified or that a voiced bilabial plosive was written with a word that meant 'house' etc. I love your other content, but I think it's important to make it clear that this is an analysis made by Jewish scholars, most of which have probably historically been religious, and so would want for there to be a bigger meaning behind the letters used. I know it's a huge part of some Kabbalistic traditions, but religion and science isn't the same, and while it is fascinating that they can find meaning like that in the words, it is important to remember that that doesn't mean this is how words were "created". Also, the word for word and thing is the same in many languages. It is not too special, but the semantic background for this I can't begin to get into here as I am a historical linguist first and foremost. 'et is not translated because it is a grammatical marker signifying a direct object (aka the accusative case), if I am not mistaken, which doesn't have an equivalent in English. I am not a Hebrew scholar so that explanation may be insufficient or imprecise, however 😊 In any case, a grammatical marker is not translated except for in meaning, and I bet Jewish scholars just read alef-tau as something like "a-z", as in, "In the beginning, god create a-z". The concept of words = magic = creation etc., is also found far and wide, but that is not such a strange concept either, I think. It is found in Indo-European contexts and in Near-Eastern ones too, and I am not surprised if it also appears as far away as in Australia and the Americas, really. I know you say it is a poetic idea briefly around 7 min in, but I feel like that is very important to stress, as a lot of people have a lot of wrong ideas about historical linguistics and natural language development 🥲

[@tuber55]

Finally found someone making sense in the comments! This video is based on pure religious interpretation and has no basis in actual linguistics. Aleph does not signify god, its origin is from the word for "bull", with the letter evolving from the likeness of a bull with horns. Two minutes of research will show you that fact. I am a native Hebrew speaker and I agree that this interpretation is very pleasing, but it is pure nonsense.

[@surajrshetty]

This feature exists in all ancient languages which are still read / written so it is not unique to Hebrew. Example Chinese and Sanskrit (ancient Indian language ) . This shows languages started with associating sounds with particular objects and they became kind of basic “root words” . Eventually we used combinations of these “root words” to describe other things. Later on people started using words from other languages for things which were new to them but known to natives. This caused us we lose consistency of root words as different languages had different root words.

[@Rafe758]

Its basically how modern German is structured, excluding its phonetic alphabet. Its a bundle of small words stacked into almost sentences to form compound words which describe an object- obviously quite different than Hebrew and the languages you've mentioned here, but still has that modular characteristic of words being almost their own simple sentences withing sentences. It seems appears missing in most other languages today.

[@Azriela.]

I looooooooove it. Very easy to memorise and learn z awesome language of almighty Elohim. Blessings and shalom. Thank you

[@MindlikeConstellations]

its fascinating to me how Quranic Arabic (and the ones spoken now too i believe) and Hebrew have similar pronouncing of some letters like aleph/alif, bet/ba, kaf/kaaf, lamed/laam, mem/meem, nun/nuun, Qof too...

[@notwithouttext]

that's because they're both semitic languages

[@MindlikeConstellations]

@@notwithouttext ikr, it's still cool

[@notwithouttext]

@@MindlikeConstellations yeah, it's also cool that it relates to greek 'aleph -> alpha bet -> beta lamed -> lambda as for qof that turned into koppa but then it was dropped from the greek alphabet because they didn't have the [q] sound

[@MindlikeConstellations]

@@notwithouttext poor koppa, rip...

[@notwithouttext]

@@MindlikeConstellations same with vav/waw -> wau -> digamma -> stigma, it disappeared

[@IonicEagleASMR]

This is brilliant! So easy to grasp and wonderful to become enthralled in! Your tiktoks are always a joy to come across on my FYP!

[@_magnify]

Yay! Glad you found me here!

[@avrahamdrori]

Thank you for a Great video. I learnt a lot and my primary language is Hebrew. I just recently(last 2 years) got into kabala and pardes(mostly Maimonides), so I'll just remind that in the Hebrew tradition nothing is really what it seems. And while you can use cabalistic ideas on letters, they will be left as they are. Unchanged. With no meaning and all of the meaning at the same time(and for the bible opening my favorite explanation is that "inside the start, god created the up and the down"

[@AdarshKumar-nj7rp]

You should do more long videos.

[@birdlion2484]

This is pretty cool, reminds me Chinese characters, which is basically the Hebrew alphabet but x500 so you have SUPER DEEP meaning.

[@davidmanashrove9850]

There is another word that the English language has no translation to and it’s ברא which in English means Created but in English it is only created from something which we all are creating from something and in the Hebrew word ברא it’s meant Created from nothing which no one can do but אלוהים God. Nice video. God Bless🙌💪🙌

[@chanaheszter168]

As in abracadabra: more or less "I will create according to His word". Not Hebrew, but Aramaic, its near relation.

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

@@chanaheszter168 Fascinating!

[@mandelleli]

Ummm from a native Hebrew speaker, like my mother tongue. THIS IS A LOAD OF INACCURATE *BS* חרטא בפיתה

[@brendonchristopherlacroix8730]

Amazing video/tutorial. Instantly subbed. Eagerly waiting for yuh ta post more....For me , too much about GOD seems just right. Thank you for sharing. Peace.

[@DavidAnimates246]

As an Israeli, I never knew our language was so interesting in this way.

[@smorcrux426]

As a Hebrew speaker this is definitely just not true, no idea where you got this from

[@danczuk3444]

About the letter Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges (argentinian writer) has a book and a short tale named "the aleph" where it explores infinite and actually is fantastic, I recommend it

[@gabrielgarcia7554]

In mathematics aleph is used to represent cardinality with infinite sets that can be well ordered. I would recommend looking up aleph numbers.

[@ODDin17]

Oh boy where to even begin. Let's start with, no, letters in the Hebrew alphabet are just letters. Yes, unlike English letters they have more complex names that have some meaning, but that's hardly unique to Hebrew. It's mostly some word that begins with that letter, often what the letter's image is based on. That still doesn't specifically mean anything. Now, one at a time. Aleph actually originally means "bull" (and was originally shaped more like the head of a bull). Also features at the beginning of such divine words as אחוריים, buttocks, and ארבה, locust. The word for womb is רחם. The word בטן means stomach. Lamed means cattle prod, though it's not a word used in modern Hebrew. In modern Hebrew the root "lamed" means "to learn" (more or less). I guess the cattle prod was meant to teach cattle to do what you wanted. There is no connection to royalty or nobility. Gimel comes either from the word for "camel" or from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a type of throwing stick. Nun probably comes from the Aramaic word for fish. The word את has absolutely nothing to do with creating the alphabet. It is a quirk of Hebrew grammar, a word that is put when a verb is acting on an object. It is somewhat similar to how in German "a table" is "ein Tisch" but "I am looking for a table" is "ich suche einen Tisch". See how "ein" becomes "einen"? That "en" is the Hebrew word את. That's it, nothing mystical about it, and obviously it shouldn't be translated to English because there's nothing to translate. (Also, unrelatedly, את in Hebrew means shovel.) The letter מ does actually mean water! First correct thing said in the video, congratulations. So, yeah, Hebrew letters are just letters, evolved from various ancient alphabets. And Hebrew words are just words, some with obscure etymology that could perhaps have something to do with pictorial representation based on the letters (though unlikely), but many are loan words, words that sound like what they represent etc. And just to drive the point home, אגם probably comes from Akkadian agammu (marsh, lagoon). The word גן comes from Summerian, meaning a type of field. אגן is similar to words in Akkadian, Ugric and ancient Egyptian, unlikely originated in Hebrew. All that said, there *are* languages that behave more akin to what you imagine Hebrew behaves like, and these are languages with logograms, such as ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics or Mandarin Chinese.

[@alexnaber349]

Who are you? Why did you do that video? and basically all your videos? are you jewish? "ET" btw is from the grammatic point of view a necessary preposition for the Accusative (4th case). that is the reaon why it appears so often. But as you so correctly pointed out it has other meanings too... but why would you be interested in that? and from where do you collect your knowledge? Do you watch shiurim? I am honestly asking out of curiousity. maybe you also like this one: "alef" can also be read as "elef" which means "thousand". Now if you add up all gematric values of the 22 letters you end up with: 999. Now add an ALEF (value=1 because it stands for g'd)) and you get ELEF.

[@calebelliott147]

"a little learning is a dangerous thing" People, please don't just take this guy's word for stuff, ive seen many of his tik tok videos that are not very accurate.

[@hadror13]

Thank the Jews for preserving this wonderful ancient language