The Word: An Introduction

THE WORD is out! You can hold in your hands one of the most significant books of our times. It is the most complete etymological dictionary of the English language, but it is far more than that.

THE WORD shall prove that:

  • English is ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.

  • All languages ultimately link up, and only through variations of the original, universal language (Hebrew).

  • Every word ever thought or spoken is merely a disguised form of Hebrew. Hebrew is on the tip of your tongue.

  • The primordial human language system (Hebrew) is a natural science like physics or chemistry. Only the "DNA" of Hebrew letters reveals the FL/LF element in FoLio and LeaF (synonyms) and the MN/NM in opposing NuMber words like MiNus and MaNy.

  • Even animal names have hidden, profound meanings: GIRAFFE (a presumed Italian and Arabic corruption) means "neck"; SKUNK (to English via the Algonquian Indian) means "stink" in the language ascribed to our ancestor Adam.



Hundreds of language mysteries are finally solved. Aside from the larger questions, we discover why words like NICK are not spelled "nik", why RICHES is singular and why knowledge of the Bible explains words like JACKRABBIT, RUTHLESS, OGRE and COLOSSAL .(With help from Jacob, Ruth, Og and Goliath.)

THE WORD will have you wondering why the authorities acknowledged words like AMEN and JUBILEE to be borrowings from Hebrew, but not related terms like AMENABLE and JUBILATE. Was it lack of knowledge or a bias against the language celebrated as the Mother Tongue until the Nineteenth Century?

THE WORD gives you the tools. You may now dig all the way back to the Tower of Babel (the unacknowledged source of BABBLE). In the same excavation you can bury the myths of the Bible-scorning professors and their incomplete, incorrect dictionaries.

No longer should students be taught that:

  • The grunting of primitives evolved into the eloquence of Shakespeare.

  • Most puns and sound-alike words are mere coincidences.

  • No more than twenty sound-alike, mean-alike words, like MAMA, PAPA and SACK. are shared between unrelated languages.

  • The Indo-Aryans of Europe evolved from different primates, and so their languages differ from those of Africans, Asians and Semites.

  • Mysterious languages like Basque have no known linguistic affinities.

  • Hebrew, too, evolved from some unknown, theoretical proto-Semitic language.

THE WORD is more than a book. It is an event. A reunion of long lost relatives separated since the neurological disturbance at Babel that scrambled the output stage of our common, programmed language.

THE WORD is a unique reference text that traces the vast majority of English words back to their ultimate origins in Biblical Hebrew. Ten years of original research revealed a bold new vision of the dynamics of human language. Through the primal Hebrew root hidden behind every English word a whole new world of order and meaning unfolds.

Readers of THE WORD discover that:

  • Many more words should be acknowledged as borrowings from the Hebrew. Some of these giant oversights include :ogre (from mighty Og, King of Bashan) and colossus (the Greek Gollius or Goliath).

  • The few aknowledged borrowings from Hebrew, like MEN and JUBILEE, should be extended to words like AMENABLE and JUBILATE.

  • There are hundreds of English and Hebrew words that sound remarkably alike and mean the same but are not cited by linguists. A few of these are abash and BooSHa, albino and LaBHaN, evil and AVeL, lick and LaKaK and regular and RaGeeL.

  • The same rules that connect the related vocabularies of Spanish, French and Italian apply to Hebrew's clear connection to English.

  • Many names of animals only have meanings in Hebrew. Giraffe means "neck" and skunk means "stink" in the language of Eden.

THE WORD gives you the tools to dig all the way back to the Tower of Babel, yet it is an easy book to use and enjoy. The extensive Hebrew and English indices guide you to any word you seek. In each entry you will find all Hebrew and foreign words clearly transliterated. You'll see each word broken down to its elemental building blocks and discover a whole family of close and distant relatives, synonyms and antonyms. In each entry Biblical verses verify the meaning and authenticity of each Hebrew root word.

THE WORD allows you to easily learn the language of the Bible as thousands of the featured word pairs sound so much alike. Are you a hardcore skeptic, a religious fundamentalist or somewhere in between? Let the millions of "coincidences" in THE WORD challenge you to believe that English and Hebrew are profoundly connected and that your language is but a scrambled form of your ancestors Adam and Eve.

The Word does for the Bible and the Tower of Babel scenario what researchers have tried to do for Noah's Ark and the Shroud of Turin. Connecting most English words to Biblical Hebrew (with samples from American Indian, Basque, Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and, etc. thrown in) upsets the Darwinists. (They claim that Blacks developed unrelated African languages because they evolved from different apes than did Indo-European man. Jews and Blacks are segregated in a linguistic country club called Afro-Asiatic.) The Creationists believe that our common ancestor Adam was given one language which he named the animals with and which later diversified (Genesis 11:1) into our current babble of languages. ("Babble" is not even acknowledged to be from "Babel".) The Bible believers of our monotheistic religions will be encouraged to see the irrefutable mass of proof compiled in THE WORD. Reluctantly the professors will have to admit that Noah Webster was right, that the first dissertation written at Harvard was right and that the world prior to Nineteenth Century German linguists was right -- that Hebrew IS the Mother Tongue."

See why AMERICA means "work," ENGLISH means "crooked" and GIRAFFE means "neck." Thanks to a decade of original research we might glory in thefact that our words have meanings that are universal and profound. From its electrifying title on, this book crackles as much with controversy as it does with new information. THE WORD is an etymological dictionary of English that begins where the others have left off. Far more than an essential reference book, readers of various educational and religious backgrounds are likely to debate the thoroughly documented thesis here that dares to claim that:

  • All English words can be traced beyond German, Latin, and Greek to their ultimate origin in Biblical Hebrew

  • Even "English" words like SKUNK (from the American Indian) and KARATE (from Japanese) are traceable to Hebrew because ALL languages link up to this original Mother Tongue

  • Language in its pristine form (Hebrew) is a natural science like chemistry or physics; reversible two-letter roots have like-sounding synonyms and antonyms.

THE WORD restores lost worlds of meaning to everyday words and challenges opponents of Creationism and the Bible to reconsider the Tower of Babel scenario of Genesis. After reading THE WORD one can see how humans might have been programmed with a symmetrical, semantically rich "computing" language that was scrambled in the output stage to create our current Babel of languages to engender our multi-national world history. To restore meaning to the sounds we call words, we need only go back to the Garden, the primordeal setting where Adam and Eve's coinage made perfect, profound sense.

Racism and xenophobia in Western Civilization has long been entrenched into the concepts of language history that is taught in our schools. The Nineteenth Century Germans who developed modern linguistics placed barbed wire around the language barriers, separating the tongues of Africa and the Middle East from the language family of the Aryans. Indo-Aryan (renamed Indo-European after the war) was to have developed from a separate people that evolved from separate monkeys (read better monkeys). Even today, students are taught that the Hamito-Semitic languages are related, but that Indo-European remains in splendid isolation. As more scholars support the work of compiler Isaac Mozeson's ten-year research project, it becomes clear that English vocabulary has more affinity to proto-Semitic or ancient Hebrew that it has to any one of its immediate parent languages: Latin, Greek or German (which, themselves, ultimately link up to Hebrew's uniquely versatile roots).

This is what author, Honorary President of the Educators Council of America and visiting prof. at Harvard, Hebrew U., Brandeis, etc. said in a spring 2000 interview (see http://ivrit.org/alvin.html):

There is some scholarly support for monogenesis of language, the thesis that all human languages are derived from a single mother tongue. In his book, The Word, Isaac Mozeson makes a strong case for Hebrew being that language, a thesis not yet accepted by most linguistic scholars. According to Mozeson, more English words can be linked clearly to biblical Hebrew than to Greek, Latin, and French. His extensive research reveals the Hebrew source of thousands of English words and terms. It shows that:

  1. "Borrowings" from Hebrew by the English language are actually extensive;

  2. The number of sound-alike, mean-alike terms in Indo-European and Semitic languages far exceed the allowable number of borrowings or "coincidences";

  3. Hebrew is a uniquely profound system of languages that resembles the organicism of natural science rather than the product of human development;

  4. If there is an original language, it is the language of the Hebrew Bible.

In September 2000, the 320-page, oversize dictionary was reprinted. I am happy to make the first 22,000 Hebrew-English discovered links available again.

Supplemental research and publications will later be available.

Thank you for considering this opportunity. It would be most considerate if you forwarded this information to any appropriate, post-Eurocentric individuals, libraries or organizations.

ShaLoM (source of SoLeMn, grand SlaM and So LoNg),

Isaac Mozeson


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