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Languages of the Bible

Second century Hebrew Ten Commandments Public domain

Alphabets and

languages

Biblical Hebrew and

Greek

The alphabet

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

English uses this alphabet. It is called the ‘Roman’ alphabet.


Other languages use

different alphabets

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‘School’ written in different languages and alphabets


Arabic

Chinese

Russian

سةمدر 学校

школа

Hebrew

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The first part of the Bible,

the Old Testament, was

written in Hebrew.

It tells the story of the

beginning of the world

and the people of Israel.

Psalms scroll, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls unwound. Public domain

Hebrew

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This is the Hebrew letter b

Hebrew writing looks like this:

Write the Hebrew letter b.


Some of the Bible was first written in

Hebrew.

Hebrew

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• Hebrew is read from right to left

• Biblical Hebrew was written without vowels (A E I

O U). The vowels were added later as dots and

dashes.

• For example, a as in had is written as –

i as in lid is written as •

Hebrew

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Some words with a Hebrew origin:

• Amen (Certainly, I agree)

• Hallelujah (Praise God)

• Cherub (a type of angel)

• Jubilee (from the Hebrew word for ram’s horn

which was blown to start celebrations)

Some Hebrew names

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Sarah

Jonathan

David

Elizabeth

Ruth

Jonah

Rebekah

Benjamin

Rachael

Naomi

Samuel

Miriam

Joshua

Anna

Jacob

Hannah

Joseph

Deborah


Greek

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The second part of the

Bible, the New

Testament, was written

in Greek.

The New Testament tells

the story of Jesus and

the first Christians.Part of an old Greek manuscript Section of Papyrus 46, containing 2 Corinthians 11:33-12:9Public domain

Greek

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Some of the Bible was first written in Greek

This is the Greek letter p π

Greek writing looks like this:

Find a Greek letter to write that is different to

English.


Greek

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Greek is read from left to

right.

The Bible writers did not use

commas or full stops.

They did not leave gaps

between the words. They

often wrote in capital letters. Part of Codex Siniaticus Public domain

Writing the Greek way

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LOVEISKINDANDPATIENTNEVERJEALOUSBOAS

TFULPROUDORRUDELOVEISNTSELFISHORQUIC

KTEMPEREDITDOESNTKEEPARECORDOFWRON

GSTHATOTHERSDO.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Where would you put the spaces, commas, full

stops and capital letters to make sense of this part

of the Bible?

Greek words

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Some words that have Greek

origins.

zoo museum

angel

dinosaur

telephone maths

school petrol

kilo octopus

angle

Some Greek names

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Irene

Nicolas

Margaret

Timothy

Angela

Stephen

Chloe

Alex

Zoe

Peter

Catherine

Andrew

Helen

Philip

Iris


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