Ancient Pictographic Meanings · BDB Lexicon · Hebrew Interlinear
𐤕 𐤔 𐤓 𐤒 𐤑 𐤐 𐤏 𐤎 𐤍 𐤌 𐤋 𐤊 𐤉 𐤈 𐤇 𐤆 𐤅 𐤄 𐤃 𐤂 𐤁 𐤀
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STEP Bible — Hebrew Interlinear
Browse the Hebrew Bible below — click any word to see its Strong’s number, then paste the Hebrew into the decoder above.
Accepts Hebrew script (paste אב, שלום…),
transliteration (shalom, ezer, adam, chesed…), or
Strong's number (H7965).
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Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Shem-Tov / George Howard edition) — the oldest surviving Hebrew text of a New Testament book, preserved in Ibn Shapruṭ’s 14th-century Even Bohan. Use this alongside the decoder: spot a Hebrew word, paste it above to decode its pictographic meaning.
The oldest complete manuscript of Isaiah, c.125 BCE. Contains all 66 chapters with 2,600+ variants from the Masoretic Text. Searchable by column, chapter and verse.
The founding document of the Qumran community. Rich theological vocabulary — chesed, emet, ruach, nefesh — in a sectarian context that reveals how these words lived in practice.
Describes the eschatological battle of the Sons of Light vs Sons of Darkness. Key military vocabulary: melek, derek, ezer, shalom — all in their most ancient warrior context.
The longest of all DSS at 8.15 metres. A rewritten Torah with expanded legal sections. Key for torah, qodesh, shabbat word studies — shows how the Qumran community interpreted Mosaic law.
25,000+ manuscript fragments with ultra-high resolution imaging. Search by keyword, browse by scroll, view spectral images that reveal text invisible to the naked eye.
The Shem-Tov Hebrew Matthew was written in the same Second Temple Hebrew tradition as the DSS. Comparing Matthew vocabulary with DSS word usage bridges the Testaments.
1. DECODE FIRST
Type a Hebrew word in the Decoder tab. The DSS Word Study panel will appear automatically showing which scrolls contain that word and what variants exist.
2. OPEN THE SCROLL
Click the Isaiah Scroll viewer. Navigate to the column shown in the DSS panel. The word appears in ink written 2,100 years ago — before vowel points were added.
3. COMPARE THE SPELLING
DSS often spells words with extra letters (plene orthography) — these matres lectionis show which vowels the scribes considered important enough to mark. This confirms or deepens the pictographic root analysis.
4. CHECK MATTHEW
Switch to the Matthew tab. Find the same word in the Hebrew Gospel. Compare how a 1st-century Hebrew Matthew uses it vs. the DSS community — same word, different theological context, revealing the full range of meaning.