Thanks James for sharing and all the time & effort.
AWESOME

you can get a free trial of winzip here that should open it for you
http://www.winzip.com/lanrar.htm

When I get back to my regular computer, I will upload a .zip, I forget sometimes that not everyone uses .rar files.

While working on chapter 26 I came across I verse I just had to share now.

Speaking to ‘Yitshaq about fulfilling His oath to ‘Abraham, Yahowah says,

"And with your offspring (zera' - seed and descendant (offspring here is singular)) all of (kol) the nations (goyim) of the land (erets – earth, and ground) I will kneel down and bless (barak - love, favorably and eternally endure with, and empower), as a consequence of (eqeb) ‘Abraham, who relationally (asher) listened to and obeyed (shama’ - heard and heeded) concerning my voice (ba qol ani – concerning I am’s voice) and continuously and habitually observed (shamar –carefully considered, diligently and consistently paid especially close attention to the details so that he understand, cared about, heeded, revered, kept and preserved) My requirements and responsibilities (mishmereth – My obligations, orders, duties, charges and missions, with an emphasis on their use to guard an care for someone or something), My terms and authoritative directives (mitswah – My instructions or prescriptions, My written legal conditions which are binding in a contract), My prescribed ordinances (chuqqah –My clearly communicated prescriptions of what you should do, My customs, and My traditions) and My Torah (towrah – My prescriptions for living, My law, My instructions, My informative and instructive teachings, and My written code of conduct)."


Also since the word my in here is ani, which also means I am, I may replace all of the My's with I Am's to stress that it is Yah’s, I Am’s, requirements and responsibilities, terms and authoritative directive, prescribes ordinances and Torah. Both are equally valid translations.

I was thinking about it today, and the perfect name for my translation came to me. The Non-King James Version. What do you think.

We call our favorite Messianic Synagogue "Not Church", as in "Come on kids, lets get into the car and head to Not Church".

So I suggest that you call it "KJV": Knot James Version.

long awaited and much appreciated!

I was translating Ba’reshiyth chapter 26 and came across a verse that is a perfect example of how bad our translations are. Chapter 26 verse 13

And the man (‘ísh) increased becoming greater, mightier, more powerful, and abundant, even more affluent (gadowl – became more important and enabled, empowered and distinguished, majestic and honored, higher in magnitude and extent, and exceedingly wealthy) and he carefully walked following the path (halak halak) and increased becoming greater, mightier, more powerful, and abundant, even more affluent (gadowl – became more important and enabled, empowered and distinguished, majestic and honored, higher in magnitude and extent, and exceedingly wealthy) until (‘ad – up to, and as far as) he become exceedingly great, mighty, powerful, and abundant, and exceedingly affluent (me’od gadowl – became very important and enabled, empowered and distinguished, majestic and honored, higher in magnitude and extent, and exceedingly wealthy).

New International Version
The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

New Living Translation
He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow.

English Standard Version
and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.

New American Standard Bible
and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy;

GOD'S WORD Translation
He continued to be successful, becoming very rich.

King James Bible
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

American King James Version
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

American Standard Version
And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Bible in Basic English
And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:

Darby Bible Translation
And the man became great, and he became continually greater, until he was very great.

English Revised Version
And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

World English Bible
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Every single translation ignores halak, even though it is there twice in the verse. Their translations have ‘Yitshaq doing nothing except getting rich and great, not even touching on what he did that caused that. Thought I would share.

In Hebrew when a word is repeated, as halak is here, it implies an intensified meaning of that word. So for example qowdesh qowdesh, is the most set apart, and muwth muwth, is certainly must die or certainly must be put to death. In the case of halak there are several options, it could be translated certainly walked for example. "The path" is implied since halak literally means to make a linear motion to another place, i.e. follow a path. Since it's implied and walk doesn't make sense in the context of the sentence without it, I included it. I included a footnote in the translation explaining this as well.

esword is a good free tool. If you only have the money for a limited library, the one book I would recommend getting is the Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semitic Domains: Hebrew. i'm not sure where you could find it, but I found it to be one of the better ones. Obviously the more references the better, but it is a good start.

After loading E-Sword it has a lot of extras (many free) under the download menu. I like BRB for OT, Thayer's for NT, and Strongs is OK on both but sometimes has too much agenda in supporting KJV. The +KJV is where you can get clickable strongs numbers for the dictionaries off to the side.

Another really cool one for OT is HALB, which gets into even the pictograph hebrew. Sometimes the stringing together the meanings of the letters of the words adds another layer of understanding.

I noticed when I installed some of these the hebrew, pictograph, fonts didn't diplay correctly. If I recall after I installed web-hebrew and possibly another font or 2 (in C:\windows\fonts) it quit showing up as garbled wing-ding text.

If any are having trouble like this, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the hebrew & paleo ttf fonts.

Chuck

Yeah the paleo-Hebrew pictographs are really awesome for adding a deeper meaning to the words.

Even worse when I can't get the Acronym right (AHLB - blush!) or didn't bother to check if that one was available under the canned E-Sword program "download" menu. My sincere apologies to you and everyone!

Other websites will offer E-Sword add on goodies:

AHLB E-Sword lexicon (www.ancient-hebrew.org)
http://www.mechanical-tr...ation.org/2-esword.html
(note the fonts link too)

ISR1998
http://www.isr-messianic.org/

I know the frustration of the "check me out", then thinking I gotta pop down big bucks to do so. Free E-Sword has been a blessing in this.

Thanks guys for the information. I just downloaded the AHLB (Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible). That will be very useful. I noticed that it won’t work on proper names such as H3068 (Yahweh), H3091 (Joshua/ Yehoshua son of Nun), H4872 (Moses/Mosheh), etc. However it is still really cool.

Shalom.

[color=darkblue][/color]These are really awesome amplification James...since coming to embrace Yah as He exists in Towrah, I find it impossible to read anything that's not been amplified.

And whereas I may not have the tools such as I'd like, I still use interlinears and lexicons in referencing Hebrew avoiding anything coming to us via the Greek...studying the Towrah and following along with the BTR the CR and the forums here has made it clear to me the Towrah really is complete able to save, and does save exclusively - does everything Paul said it can't do etc.

Great job!

Now if only I could actually remember better specifics and where something was written. Concepts, ideas, and themes I get but details i can never remember, just not how my brain is wired. At least with writing out the Towrah this way I can narrow it down with I know I translated something about that, therefore it must be in somewhere between the first chapter of Ba'reshiyth and 29, and I think it concerned Abraham, so I'll start there.

Wow, Vince, you blow me away. Reading your post, you are looking at me. I do exactly as you. It does not matter if it is 10,000, 100,000 pages, it is all the same, all I want. I daily live and breath the site and the books. I think there are many brothers and sisters here just like that, us, and we love it and cannot get enough of it. "What haven't I read? Go over it again. Do I have latest chapter of ITG. Our lives have changed; our brotherhood has grown, our minds have expanded. I know you have touched a cord of many and I wanted to be one of the first to let you know. The only drawback I find is the wait on Craig, who tirelessly plods along, and because his work is so tasking, the wait seems so long. Pray you had a wonderful holiday.

So far James is the only one I know of to post updates of his translations on here. It was discussed in the BTR cr today that it would be great if we could determine who would work on what books and then all of us post updates. I think this would be geared toward those who have logos. Who knows, maybe we'll eventually get some finished books on here! Since James is doing genesis, I am doing exodus. I think Bobby said he is going to start one soon too. Please if you are on board with the idea, post which book you wanna work on so that people can avoid being redundant. And yes I know we'd all like to do all the TPP ourselves, but one step at a time.

Also, right now I am working on a hebrew glossary that shows each hebrew word and the various meanings. I have like 9,000 more words to add, so it is taking awhile. If anyone wants to help by adding strongs numbers, adding the hebrew letters of each word, etc, let me know. I also could use help with different stems, tenses, etc cuz I really don't know how to do that very well yet. If this turns out the way I want it to, it could be a very useful aid in translating. It's like taking all the best resources and merging them into one hence making it more user friendly but not intended to take the place of the resources which can and should still be used.

I am game to do some translating. I think it is a good idea if we all could take a book. I would like to work on Dabarym unless someone else wants it. Thanks, Bobby

Just having purchased LOGOs (but not yet seasoned at translating), having a coordinated effort to get complete book translations done in a timely manner is an awesome idea. Could this be a "scriptures only" link off YY site, or on another site. Could there be a seasoned translator acting as organizer,gatekeeper, proofreader, webmaster? Would be nice if organized to prevent redundant effort and also quality control.

Just bouncing ideas, and would love to hear others.

Great ideas and points, like Chuck said - consistency in hows it's put down, and Torah being a priority.
I think files needs to be posted as a sticky so it's easy for people to find, with discussions following.

I would LOVE to help out, but not able to purchase Logos at this time, so I will offer to help out in any other way I can. Don't be afraid to ask.