Bible Book OrderNotes to Hebrew Letters
These are my original notes for the Hebrew letters. I wasn't very practiced in the alphabet when I took these notes. Expect changes here as I have opportunity to work on this section of the website.
Aleph and Genesis (ox, bull, strength or leader)
Genesis 17:5, No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Genesis 45:8, So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.
Genesis 49:10, The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.
Bet and Exodus (tent, house, household or into)
Exodus 2:1-2, Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
Exodus 15:13, In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
Exodus 15:17, You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance -the place, O Yahweh, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Yahweh, your hands established.
Exodus 40:33-34, Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled tabernacle.
Gimel and Leviticus (camel, pride or to lift up)
Leviticus 26:19, I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
Dalet and Numbers (door, pathway or enter)
Numbers 14:30, Not one of your will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 33:1, Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Hey and Deuteronomy (window, lattice, “the” or reveal)
Deuteronomy 29:29, The secret things belong to Yahweh our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Vav and Joshua (nail, “and” or secure)
Zayin and Judges (weapon, cut or cut off)
Judges 4:21, But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.
Chet and 1 Samuel (fence, a chamber, private or separate)
Tet and 2 Samuel (snake, twist or surround)
Yood and 1 Kings (hand, closed hand, deed or make)
Kaf and 2 Kings (arm, open hand, to cover or to allow)
Lamed and Ezekiel (cattle goad, staff, prod or toward)
Ezekiel 34:2, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: This is what the Sovereign Yahweh says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
Ezekiel 37:16, Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him. Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.
Mem and Isaiah (water, massive or chaos)
Noon and Jeremiah (fish (moving), activity or life)
Samech and Lamentations (prop, support or turn)
Ayin and Ezra (eye, see or know)
Ezra 7:6, He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given.
Ezra 7:10, For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of Yahweh, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.
Ezra 7:12, To Ezra the priest, a teacher of the Law of the God of heaven.
Ezra 7:25, And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates -all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.
Pey and Nehemiah (mouth, to speak or to open)
Nehemiah 1:10, I was cupbearer to the king.
Tzadik and Esther (fish-hook, harvest or need)
Koof and Zechariah (back of the head, behind or last)
Reysh and Micah (head, person or highest)
Sheen and Jonah (teeth, consume or destroy)
Jonah 1:17, But Yahweh provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.
Tav and Amos (sign, a cross, covenant or seal)
Aleph and Hosea (ox, bull, strength or leader)
Bet and Haggai (tent, house, household or into)
Gimel and Zephaniah (camel, pride or to lift up)
Dalet and Psalms (door, pathway or enter)
Hey and Job (window, lattice, “the” or reveal)
Vav and Ecclesiastes (nail, “and” or secure)
Ecclesiastes 12:11, The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails, given by one Shepherd.
Zayin and Proverbs (weapon, cut or to cut off)
Chet and Ruth (fence, a chamber, private or separate)
Tet and Song of Songs (snake, twist or surround)
Yood and Joel (hand, closed hand, deed or make)
Kaf and Obadiah (arm, open hand, cover or allow)
Lamed and Malachi (cattle goad, staff, prod or toward)
Mem and Nahum (water, massive or chaos)
Noon and Habakkuk (fish, (moving), activity or life)
Samech and 1 Chronicles (prop, support or turn)
Ayin and 2 Chronicles (eye, see or know)
Pey and Daniel (mouth, speak or open)
Tzadik and John (fish-hook, harvest or need)
John 4:35, Do you not says, Four months more and then the harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
John 4:36, Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper may be glad together.
John 4:37, Thus the saying, One sows and another reaps is true.
John 20:31, But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that be believing you may have life in his name.
Koof and Matthew (back of the head, behind or last)
Matthew 1:1, A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Reysh and Mark (head, person or highest)
Sheen and Luke (teeth, consume or destroy)
Luke 2:34-36, Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.
Tav and Acts (sign, a cross, covenant or seal)
Acts 15:23, With them they sent the following letter.
Acts 16:3-4, Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they knew that his father was a Greek. As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
Aleph and Philippians (ox, bull, strength or leader)
Philippians 1:1, Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons...
Philippians 4:13, I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Bet and 1 Thessalonians (tent, house, household or into)
Gimel and 2 Thessalonians (camel, pride or lift up)
2 Thessalonians 2:4, He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
Dalet and 2 John (door, pathway or enter)
2 John 4, It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
2 John 6, And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
2 John 7, Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
2 John 9, Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 10, If anyone come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.
2 John 12, I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
Hey and 2 Timothy (window, lattice, “the” or reveal)
2 Timothy 1:10, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
Vav and 1 Corinthians (nail, “and” or secure)
Zayin and Galatians (weapon, cut or cut off)
Galatians 1:8-9, But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Galatians 2:3, Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
Galatians 2:11-12, When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
Galatians 5:2, Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
Galatians 5:3, Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Galatians 5:6, For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:7, You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?
Galatians 5:11, Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
Galatians 5:12, As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Galatians 5:15, If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
Galatians 5:17, For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
Galatians 6:12, Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:13, Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh.
Galatians 6:15, Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.
Galatians 6:17, Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
Chet and Ephesians (fence, chamber, private or separate)
Ephesians 2:11-12, Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men) -remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:14-15, For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus make peace...
Ephesians 2:17, He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
Ephesians 3:6, This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:18, They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
Tet and Romans (snake, twist or surround)
Romans 1:3, regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David...
Romans 1:26-27, Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Romans 9:5, Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praise! Amen.
Romans 16:17, I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
Romans 16:20, The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
Yood and Hebrews (hand, closed hand, deed or make)
Hebrews 10:24, let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
Kaf and James (arm, open hand, cover or allow)
Lamed and 1 Timothy (cattle goad, staff, prod or toward)
Mem and Jude (water, massive or chaos)
Jude 13, They are wild waves of the sea.
Noon and 2 Corinthians (fish (moving), activity or life)
2 Corinthians 1:9-10, Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us.
2 Corinthians 2:16, To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life.
2 Corinthians 3:6, He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 4:10-12, We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also by revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
2 Corinthians 5:4, For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
2 Corinthians 5:7, We live by faith and not by sight.
2 Corinthians 13:4, For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you.
Samech and Philemon (prop, support or turn)
Philemon 7, Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Philemon, 10-11, I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
Philemon 14, But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced.
Philemon 15-16, Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back for good -no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.
Philemon 17, So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.
Philemon 18-20, If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back-not to mention that you owe me your very self. I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
Philemon 22, And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.
Ayin and Colossians (eye, see or know)
Colossians 1:9, For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Colossians 1:10, And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way; bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God...
Colossians 1:15, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:16, For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
Colossians 1:21-22, Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds as shown by your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation...
Colossians 1:26, the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.
Colossians 1:27, To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:28, We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
Colossians 2:1, I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.
Colossians 2:2-3, My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 2:8, See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
Colossians 2:18, Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions.
Colossians 2:20-23, Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch! These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Colossians 3:9-10, Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:16, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Colossians 4:2, Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Colossians 4:3, And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
Colossians 4:5, Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
Colossians 4:6, Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Colossians 4:8, I am sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.
Colossians 4:12, Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.
Pey and 1 John (mouth, speak or open)
Acts 26:1, Then Agrippa said to Paul, You have permission to speak for yourself.
Acts 26:11, I tried to force them to blaspheme.
Acts 26:14, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
Tzadik and 1 Peter (fish-hook, harvest or need)
Koof and 2 Peter (back of the head, behind or last)
Reysh and Titus (head, person or highest)
Titus 1:5, The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
Sheen and 3 John (teeth, consume or destroy)
3 John 9, I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
Tav and Revelation (sign, cross, covenant or seal)
Revelation 7:4, Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
