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Biblical Hebrew Translator

Paste a verse of Torah, Psalms or prayer Hebrew. Get a literal gloss, a readable English sentence, a transliteration, and every word broken down by root and form.

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Biblical Hebrew Is Not Modern Hebrew

A verb form that is common in the Torah can be rare or absent in the Hebrew spoken in Tel Aviv, and a word that means one thing in Genesis can carry a different sense by the time of the Mishnah. This translator lets you say which era the text belongs to, Biblical, Mishnaic or Modern, so the reading it gives reflects the Hebrew of that period rather than a flattened, one-size reading.

It is built for study: the word-by-word table shows the root behind each word and its grammatical form, so you can see the structure of the sentence, not just its translation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Biblical Hebrew the same as the Hebrew people speak today?

No. Biblical Hebrew has verb forms, vocabulary and syntax that Modern Hebrew does not use day to day; Mishnaic Hebrew sits between the two. Pick the era closest to your text for a more accurate reading.

What does "literal" mean here?

A word-order-preserving gloss, so you can see which English word maps to which Hebrew word, even where the result reads awkwardly. The "readable" line is the same verse in natural English.

Will it recognize the verse?

When the text matches a known verse or prayer line, the source is given as book and chapter:verse. If it does not recognize it, the source is left blank rather than guessed.

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