Without Vowels Bible Wiki - User contributions [en]

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2026-07-10T17:43:56Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://givebutter.com/bible-original-w7tjpm Donate]'''</span>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2026-07-10T17:42:32Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2026-07-10T17:41:48Z

Victor Porton:

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MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2026-07-10T16:44:47Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2026-07-09T18:21:49Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://gogetfunding.com/bible-study-without-vowels-project/ Donate]'''</span>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2026-07-09T18:19:51Z

Victor Porton:

Without Vowels project

2026-07-09T16:42:20Z

Victor Porton:

'''Navigation: [[Topics|Bible topics]] | [[Project:Contribute|Donate/contribute]] | [[Special:ArticlesHome|Blog]] | [[TanakhIndex|Hebrew Bible text]] | [[Project:Community_portal|Community portal]] | [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] | [[Grammar:Tutorial|Ancient Hebrew tutorial]]'''

If you want to [[Project:Contribute|contribute]] to this site, please [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]]. Your edits may be moderated as a measure of SPAM protection.

This site is intended to analyze the meaning of Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, also known as Old Testament among Christians) as it was originally written, without vowels and other niqqudot but only with consonants and '''[[Project:BibleWiki|collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible]]''' at this site.

This site was created based on the belief that Tanakh has many different senses because the sense changes when other vowels are inserted instead of the "standard" vowels of Jewish tradition. But traditional Bible commentaries are also welcome.

Also it is much easier to study partial Hebrew grammar without vowels and other niqqudot.

Start with reading [[Grammar:Tutorial|A tutorial for biblical Hebrew without vowels]]. It is quite simple. [[Grammar:Quick|This page]] contains a "quick sheet" for quickly identifying a grammar form having a Hebrew word.

This site follows the '''[[Project:Rules|rules]]''' and thus does not adhere to any particular religion or confession.

== The aim of this site ==

This site is created with a [[Project:BibleWiki| purpose to collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible]].

{{:Topics}}

== Not sponsored by a theological college ==

This project is not sponsored by a theological college. Instead as most professional theologians have abandoned literal meaning of God's word and instead try to study it in context of traditions of men (what ''men'' means by their words recorded in Bible, not what ''God'' means), this new level of research of Bible (streamlined by our wiki software supporting certain methodology of studying Bible, allowing everybody to edit the meanings of Hebrew words and translations of Bible) was started by [[User:Victor_Porton|Victor Porton]], a believer in literal (as well as spiritual) interpretation of Bible, a professional programmer and amateur mathematician, in order to welcome all [[Project:Volunteer|volunteers]] not requiring a scientific degree to participate in this project, [[Grammar:Tutorial|learning ancient Hebrew without vowels]] and [[Project:Translators|translating]] Bible. We do not require a scientific degree from the volunteers because we need as many volunteers as possible, to foster our project. Biblical Hebrew without vowels is easy and virtually anyone can learn it. This site just like Wikipedia does not require a scientific degree to edit it.

== Technical features of this site ==

It is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] site that is anybody can edit its content.

On this wiki is uploaded [[TanakhIndex|the text of Tanakh]], verse by verse (you can start [[TanakhIndex|here]]).

Among of a verse are displayed the previous (except of the first verse of a book) and the next (except of the last verse of a book) verses in gray color with the purpose to allow the user to easily relate the text of a verse with the previous and next verses.

Every word is hyperlinked. Clicking the word you come to the page which is intended to contain the grammar of this word (without vowels). The grammar concerns the declined form of the word, not its primary form. (You are however free to create a page for the primary form of the word and interlink the pages with the primary and declined forms.)

The text of Tanakh is divided into fragments (so called ''parashot'') with || markers (denoting so called Pe-marks) and into smaller fragment with | (so called Samekh marks). If you do some translation of a Tanakh fragment please click the link ''Exegesis'' and edit that page to insert your translation.

When editing a wiki page, to enter a Hebrew word with a reference to our without-vowels dictionary, click the "Aleph" icon in the editor toolbar and enter the word. Alternatively you may select a non-hyperlinked Hebrew word and click "Aleph" in toolbar in order to turn this Hebrew word into a hyperlink to our dictionary.

The text of Tanakh was obtained from [http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml this site]. It is converted into the wiki format by [http://withoutvowels.org/misc/split_into_verses.py this Python program]

You cannot edit pages with Tanakh text (Tanakh:* namespace), because they are created automatically and your edit cannot overwrite it.

See [http://withoutvowels.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=104 the list of translated verses].

[[Some suggestions how to improve our software]]

== Philosophy ==

The primary reason for creating this site is the belief that Tanakh is the word of God and it should be studied in all senses possible. Non-believing linguists/historians which wish to analyze the original meaning of Bible are also welcome.

Before starting musing on Tanakh, you are recommended to read all theological articles about meaning and interpretation of Tanakh provided on this site:

* [[Theology:Victor Porton|Victor Porton's opinion on the meaning of Tanakh]]
* [[Theology:Spaces Hypothesis|Victor Porton's hypothesis on spaces in Hebrew Bible]]
* [[Blog:Main/Faith_and_technology_of_Bible_study|Faith and technology of Bible study]] ([[User:Victor Porton|Victor Porton's]] blog post)
* [[Blog:Main/I_Corinthians_on_Hebrew_Bible_interpretation|1st Corinthians about spiritual sense of Old Testament]]

== Support this project ==

See '''[[Project:Contribute|this page]]''' about how you can help this project.

If you want to contribute to this site, [[Special:CreateAccount|create account]]. Your edits will be moderated to prevent spam. You must follow [[Project:Rules|the project moderation rules]], if you edit this site.

== This is not "Bible code" ==

So called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Code Bible Code] is the concept stating that reading Bible not character by character but for instance skipping every 50 letters, we can get a message.

There is certain skepticism regarding Bible Code, because of lack of proper reason to skip every say 50 characters reading Bible.

This project is different, it is well founded by the fact that initially Tanakh was written without vowels and other niqqudot, and thus it is the natural way to read Tanakh without them.

That saying, this project is like Bible Code but without skipping characters.

Many adherents to Jewish tradition would oppose reading Tanakh without vowels because they are adherents to the verbal tradition. Nevertheless many adherents of Jewish tradition accept Bible Code. That makes no sense to accept Bible Code but not to accept Without Vowels project, because if one accepts Bible Code then according to common sense he should also accept reading Tanakh without vowels.

== Useful internal links ==

* [[Project:Community_portal|Community portal]]
*[[Special:AllPages|site contents (index)]]
*[http://withoutvowels.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=&fulltext=Search&profile=all For search text in Hebrew (everything)]

== Useful resources ==

You can use [http://www.2letterlookup.com/ 2LetterLookup] to look up meanings of Hebrew words.

[http://www.sdbh.org/vocabula/index.html Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (UBS)] is a more traditional detailed Hebrew dictionary.

[http://biblos.com/genesis/1-1.htm Hebrew with strongs and parallel English]

[http://biblewiki.wikidot.com BibleWiki] anyone who has an interest in studying the interpretation of the Bible and wants to take the time to think and write about their study. Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, Mormons, etc… anyone who claims to use the Bible as a basis for their beliefs.

[http://thewikibible.pbworks.com/ The Wiki Bible Project] (an editable wiki like this site, but not focused on Old Testament only and not so much tied to the Original as this site; also unlike this site they accept only Christian opinions)

== Misc links ==

*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar] (a very hard to read book)
*[http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/ Ancient Hebrew Research Center]
*[http://www.hebrew4christians.com/ Hebrew for Christians]
*[http://scholarsgateway.com/parse Meanings for every grammar form of every word in Tanakh] (understands only words with niqqudot, and thus little useful for us)
*[http://www.sdbh.org/dictionary/main.php?language=en Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew] (work in progress)
*[http://www.godrules.net/library/Slavic/hebrewgreek/inter.htm Strong dictionaries in Russian]
*[https://nt.withoutvowels.org The sister site about New Testament]

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2026-07-09T16:41:52Z

Victor Porton: Blog link updated

Exegesis:Cherubim of cunning work

2023-07-22T19:01:59Z

Victor Porton: moved from a wrong URL

It seems that cherubs do "cunning" (thinking, computing, devising, finding out, forecasting, imagining, inventing) work.

Verses: [[Exegesis:Exodus_26:1|Exodus 26:1]], [[Exegesis:Exodus_36:8|Exodus 36:8]].

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2023-01-21T21:24:00Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://gogetfunding.com/bible-study-without-vowels-project/ Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2023-01-21T21:22:23Z

Victor Porton: New Donate link

<b>Site in transfer: Content changes may be lost</b><br>
Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://gogetfunding.com/bible-study-without-vowels-project/ Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-25T03:21:09Z

Victor Porton:

<b>Site in transfer: Content changes may be lost</b><br>
Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/6 Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-24T18:06:51Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-24T18:03:02Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; padding: 4px; font-size:200%; border: 1px ridge gray" id="donate-button">'''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/6 Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>
<div style="float:right; clear: both"><htmlet>ntcomm</htmlet></div>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-24T18:02:11Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-24T18:00:54Z

Victor Porton:

Without Vowels project

2020-04-11T16:36:20Z

Victor Porton:

'''Navigation: [[Topics|Bible topics]] | [[Project:Contribute|Donate/contribute]] | [[Blog:Main|Blog]] | [[TanakhIndex|Hebrew Bible text]] | [[Project:Community_portal|Community portal]] | [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] | [[Grammar:Tutorial|Ancient Hebrew tutorial]]'''

If you want to [[Project:Contribute|contribute]] to this site, please [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]]. Your edits may be moderated as a measure of SPAM protection.

This site is intended to analyze the meaning of Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, also known as Old Testament among Christians) as it was originally written, without vowels and other niqqudot but only with consonants and '''[[Project:BibleWiki|collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible]]''' at this site.

This site was created based on the belief that Tanakh has many different senses because the sense changes when other vowels are inserted instead of the "standard" vowels of Jewish tradition. But traditional Bible commentaries are also welcome.

Also it is much easier to study partial Hebrew grammar without vowels and other niqqudot.

Start with reading [[Grammar:Tutorial|A tutorial for biblical Hebrew without vowels]]. It is quite simple. [[Grammar:Quick|This page]] contains a "quick sheet" for quickly identifying a grammar form having a Hebrew word.

This site follows the '''[[Project:Rules|rules]]''' and thus does not adhere to any particular religion or confession.

== The aim of this site ==

This site is created with a [[Project:BibleWiki| purpose to collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible]].

{{:Topics}}

== Not sponsored by a theological college ==

This project is not sponsored by a theological college. Instead as most professional theologians have abandoned literal meaning of God's word and instead try to study it in context of traditions of men (what ''men'' means by their words recorded in Bible, not what ''God'' means), this new level of research of Bible (streamlined by our wiki software supporting certain methodology of studying Bible, allowing everybody to edit the meanings of Hebrew words and translations of Bible) was started by [[User:Victor_Porton|Victor Porton]], a believer in literal (as well as spiritual) interpretation of Bible, a professional programmer and amateur mathematician, in order to welcome all [[Project:Volunteer|volunteers]] not requiring a scientific degree to participate in this project, [[Grammar:Tutorial|learning ancient Hebrew without vowels]] and [[Project:Translators|translating]] Bible. We do not require a scientific degree from the volunteers because we need as many volunteers as possible, to foster our project. Biblical Hebrew without vowels is easy and virtually anyone can learn it. This site just like Wikipedia does not require a scientific degree to edit it.

== Technical features of this site ==

It is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] site that is anybody can edit its content.

On this wiki is uploaded [[TanakhIndex|the text of Tanakh]], verse by verse (you can start [[TanakhIndex|here]]).

Among of a verse are displayed the previous (except of the first verse of a book) and the next (except of the last verse of a book) verses in gray color with the purpose to allow the user to easily relate the text of a verse with the previous and next verses.

Every word is hyperlinked. Clicking the word you come to the page which is intended to contain the grammar of this word (without vowels). The grammar concerns the declined form of the word, not its primary form. (You are however free to create a page for the primary form of the word and interlink the pages with the primary and declined forms.)

The text of Tanakh is divided into fragments (so called ''parashot'') with || markers (denoting so called Pe-marks) and into smaller fragment with | (so called Samekh marks). If you do some translation of a Tanakh fragment please click the link ''Exegesis'' and edit that page to insert your translation.

When editing a wiki page, to enter a Hebrew word with a reference to our without-vowels dictionary, click the "Aleph" icon in the editor toolbar and enter the word. Alternatively you may select a non-hyperlinked Hebrew word and click "Aleph" in toolbar in order to turn this Hebrew word into a hyperlink to our dictionary.

The text of Tanakh was obtained from [http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml this site]. It is converted into the wiki format by [http://withoutvowels.org/misc/split_into_verses.py this Python program]

You cannot edit pages with Tanakh text (Tanakh:* namespace), because they are created automatically and your edit cannot overwrite it.

See [http://withoutvowels.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=104 the list of translated verses].

[[Some suggestions how to improve our software]]

== Philosophy ==

The primary reason for creating this site is the belief that Tanakh is the word of God and it should be studied in all senses possible. Non-believing linguists/historians which wish to analyze the original meaning of Bible are also welcome.

Before starting musing on Tanakh, you are recommended to read all theological articles about meaning and interpretation of Tanakh provided on this site:

* [[Theology:Victor Porton|Victor Porton's opinion on the meaning of Tanakh]]
* [[Theology:Spaces Hypothesis|Victor Porton's hypothesis on spaces in Hebrew Bible]]
* [[Blog:Main/Faith_and_technology_of_Bible_study|Faith and technology of Bible study]] ([[User:Victor Porton|Victor Porton's]] blog post)
* [[Blog:Main/I_Corinthians_on_Hebrew_Bible_interpretation|1st Corinthians about spiritual sense of Old Testament]]

== Support this project ==

See '''[[Project:Contribute|this page]]''' about how you can help this project.

If you want to contribute to this site, [[Special:CreateAccount|create account]]. Your edits will be moderated to prevent spam. You must follow [[Project:Rules|the project moderation rules]], if you edit this site.

== This is not "Bible code" ==

So called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Code Bible Code] is the concept stating that reading Bible not character by character but for instance skipping every 50 letters, we can get a message.

There is certain skepticism regarding Bible Code, because of lack of proper reason to skip every say 50 characters reading Bible.

This project is different, it is well founded by the fact that initially Tanakh was written without vowels and other niqqudot, and thus it is the natural way to read Tanakh without them.

That saying, this project is like Bible Code but without skipping characters.

Many adherents to Jewish tradition would oppose reading Tanakh without vowels because they are adherents to the verbal tradition. Nevertheless many adherents of Jewish tradition accept Bible Code. That makes no sense to accept Bible Code but not to accept Without Vowels project, because if one accepts Bible Code then according to common sense he should also accept reading Tanakh without vowels.

== Useful internal links ==

* [[Project:Community_portal|Community portal]]
*[[Special:AllPages|site contents (index)]]
*[http://withoutvowels.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=&fulltext=Search&profile=all For search text in Hebrew (everything)]

== Useful resources ==

You can use [http://www.2letterlookup.com/ 2LetterLookup] to look up meanings of Hebrew words.

[http://www.sdbh.org/vocabula/index.html Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (UBS)] is a more traditional detailed Hebrew dictionary.

[http://biblos.com/genesis/1-1.htm Hebrew with strongs and parallel English]

[http://biblewiki.wikidot.com BibleWiki] anyone who has an interest in studying the interpretation of the Bible and wants to take the time to think and write about their study. Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, Mormons, etc… anyone who claims to use the Bible as a basis for their beliefs.

[http://thewikibible.pbworks.com/ The Wiki Bible Project] (an editable wiki like this site, but not focused on Old Testament only and not so much tied to the Original as this site; also unlike this site they accept only Christian opinions)

== Misc links ==

*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar] (a very hard to read book)
*[http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/ Ancient Hebrew Research Center]
*[http://www.hebrew4christians.com/ Hebrew for Christians]
*[http://scholarsgateway.com/parse Meanings for every grammar form of every word in Tanakh] (understands only words with niqqudot, and thus little useful for us)
*[http://www.sdbh.org/dictionary/main.php?language=en Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew] (work in progress)
*[http://www.godrules.net/library/Slavic/hebrewgreek/inter.htm Strong dictionaries in Russian]
*[https://nt.withoutvowels.org The sister site about New Testament]

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2020-04-04T21:13:31Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2020-04-04T21:12:24Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2020-04-04T21:02:07Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2020-04-04T21:01:13Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-02T23:53:42Z

Victor Porton:

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-02T23:51:42Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; padding: 4px; font-size:200%">'''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/6 Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

2020-04-02T23:51:04Z

Victor Porton:

Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. <span style="background:red; paddding: 4px; font-size:200%">'''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/6 Donate]'''</span> <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

User:Victor Porton

2020-03-24T00:34:53Z

Victor Porton:

Victor Porton is the creator of this site.

*[http://books.portonvictor.org/end-of-gospel/ End of Gospel] (book)
*[http://books.portonvictor.org/nt-commentary-online/ New Testament Commentary by a Mathematician] (book)
*[http://books.portonvictor.org/repent/ How to repent of sins] (interactive webpage)
*[http://books.portonvictor.org My Christian sermons]
*[http://portonvictor.org Homepage]

<hr>

I tried to apply [[Theology:Spaces Hypothesis|Spaces Hypothesis]] to start of Genesis (1:1-5:2). As it failed (and took too much time for the research), I decided now to try to apply Spaces Hypothesis only to proper names.

The next verse to translate: [[Tanakh:Genesis 8:1]], next word to analyse: [[Tanakh:Genesis 8:12]].

<hr>

I am also reading Bible in AKJV (American King James Version). I stopped at Numbers 3:40.

User:Victor Porton

2020-03-09T21:48:03Z

Victor Porton:

Project:Donate

2020-02-21T15:56:39Z

Victor Porton:

We need your donations. Click the below to donate online any amount of money with either PayPal, credit card, or directly from your bank account:

'''[https://gogetfunding.com/bible-study-without-vowels-project/ DONATE]''' (PayPal or credit card)

Or you can send BitCoins to <code>1M3NGxeKmJv8ESLnVtGrUixPeLCRCjZRwu</code> or Ethereum <code>0x36A0356d43EE4168ED24EFA1CAe3198708667ac0</code>

Your donation may be used to:
* pay for hosting, the domain, and other Internet services
* advertise this site (as to submit it into Web directories, make press-releases, etc.)
* hire organization personnel and set infrastructure for reliable continued operation of the organization

Our current needs:
* The site runs on a [[User:Victor_Porton|site founder's]] private server, this costs him $24/month, please reduce his burden.
* $12.49/year for withoutvowels.org domain.
* a good press release distribution, may cost $983 one-time
* search engine optimization ([http://www.searchberg.com searchberg.com] offers this service for $100 one time setup fee plus 3-4 months for $399/month. [http://online-sales-marketing.com/ The Spectrum Group Online, LLC] White Hat SEO pricing starts at $2000 a month.); [http://www.kleinburd.com/ KLEINBURD] and [https://semalt.com Semalt] are a yet another companies who do SEO.
* a reliable backup system (it can be done with BackupPC program on a separate server, a 30GB server at DigitalOcean costs $10/month). Another alternative (instead of BackupPC) is to extend our hosting to 60GB (in order to be able to host more backups on our own server) and use Google Drive for backing backup (this also costs additional $12/month (plus possibly $1.99 to increase Google storage)) '''Nevermind, I have made a backup system using free services only.''' (however, additional longer and more reliable backup may be possibly constructed and this needs money)
* continuing the topic of backup: We need to switch to 60GB package (+$12/month) in order to set so called master/slave replication for MySQL. Without it, my existing backup solution intercedes with normal functionality of the site so that the site is paused for about 30 sec (not measured exactly) every day.
* Our server sometimes crashes. We need $5/month to make it monitored once per minute by [https://binarycanary.com Binary Canary] service. For phone notifications we need $20/month (instead of $5/month). Alternative: https://www.pingdom.com/pricing

==Calculation of press release price==

Here is a calculation of the price of the press release service we target to attain (an one-time payment, not recurring):

'''Price decreased''' need to recalculate.'''

* $389 - [https://www.christiannewsservice.com/com-virtuemart-menu-manufacturers/services/cns-platinum-detail "CNS – Platinum"] package cost
* Press Release Writing Services - $149
* excess of 375 word limit - yet unknown as the PR is not yet written
* Audio News Release & Placement - $150
* International Religious Media Outlets - $125
* Conservative U.S. Media Outlets & Newswires - $95
* Christian Media Outlets - $75
* Times Square Billboard High Res Photo - $350 (very expensive, we probably should not order this option)

So, the expected sum (without ''Times Square Billboard High Res Photo'') is $983.

===Press release points===

These are possible PR stress points (in no particular order):

* Site for studying Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) without vowels.
* Without vowels it is: 1. easier to study; 2. has more different meanings what is important for understanding God's word.
* The site is a wiki that is can be edited by anyone wanting to contribute, you are free to express your opinion on Hebrew Bible and write articles on various topics related with the Bible.
* The site is not-confessional and welcomes all religions (Christians, Jews, Mormons, etc.) and even atheists.
* We need more students and translators. We need volunteers and donations.
* The site contains an easy tutorial of ancient Hebrew without vowels.
* This site is created with a pretentious purpose to collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible.
* The primary reason for creating this site is the belief that Tanakh is the word of God and it should be studied in all senses possible.
* This press release should call the reader to study ancient Hebrew (without vowels) and become an active translator.

==Is it worth to buy SEO?==

Discuss whether it is a good package or an over-cost.

Should we buy SEO at all? because there are too little total Google search for such keywords as "Old Testament", "Hebrew Bible", and even "Bible".

For example (2015 Dec 1) Google requests (using AdWords keyword planner):
* Old Testament - 33100 requests per month
* Hebrew Bible - 22200 requests per month

Even if we get first position for these two keywords, [http://marketingland.com/new-click-rate-study-google-organic-results-102149 it is 31.24% CTR].

Thus (in the assumption of first positions, which seems unrealistic for [[User:Victor_Porton|me]]), we get (33100+22200)*0.3124 = 17275 additional visits per month.

Please discuss if it is worth money. "The Spectrum Group Online, LLC" is definitely an overcost. searchberg.com can be discussed.

[http://www.affordableseofl.com/seo-tampa-service/ An another SEO company prices.]

==Donation campaigns at external sites==

We also collect donations at the following sites:
* [https://onetoday.google.com/ Google One Day] giving fund
* [https://pledgie.com/campaigns/30548 pledgie.com]
* [http://www.guidestar.org/profile?id=47-4097210 GuideStar]

We also should sign up for [https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/ PayPal's Giving Fund]. For this we need a bank statement or a voided check (and for this we need to open a bank account first).

==See also==

* [[Project:Volunteer|Volunteer]]
* [[Project:Contribute|Help the project]]

Project:Donate

2020-02-21T15:56:22Z

Victor Porton:

We need your donations. Click the below to donate online any amount of money with either PayPal, credit card, or directly from your bank account:

'''[https://gogetfunding.com/bible-study-without-vowels-project/ DONATE]''' (PayPal or credit card)

Or you can send BitCoins to <code>1M3NGxeKmJv8ESLnVtGrUixPeLCRCjZRwu</code> or Ethereum 0x36A0356d43EE4168ED24EFA1CAe3198708667ac0

Your donation may be used to:
* pay for hosting, the domain, and other Internet services
* advertise this site (as to submit it into Web directories, make press-releases, etc.)
* hire organization personnel and set infrastructure for reliable continued operation of the organization

Our current needs:
* The site runs on a [[User:Victor_Porton|site founder's]] private server, this costs him $24/month, please reduce his burden.
* $12.49/year for withoutvowels.org domain.
* a good press release distribution, may cost $983 one-time
* search engine optimization ([http://www.searchberg.com searchberg.com] offers this service for $100 one time setup fee plus 3-4 months for $399/month. [http://online-sales-marketing.com/ The Spectrum Group Online, LLC] White Hat SEO pricing starts at $2000 a month.); [http://www.kleinburd.com/ KLEINBURD] and [https://semalt.com Semalt] are a yet another companies who do SEO.
* a reliable backup system (it can be done with BackupPC program on a separate server, a 30GB server at DigitalOcean costs $10/month). Another alternative (instead of BackupPC) is to extend our hosting to 60GB (in order to be able to host more backups on our own server) and use Google Drive for backing backup (this also costs additional $12/month (plus possibly $1.99 to increase Google storage)) '''Nevermind, I have made a backup system using free services only.''' (however, additional longer and more reliable backup may be possibly constructed and this needs money)
* continuing the topic of backup: We need to switch to 60GB package (+$12/month) in order to set so called master/slave replication for MySQL. Without it, my existing backup solution intercedes with normal functionality of the site so that the site is paused for about 30 sec (not measured exactly) every day.
* Our server sometimes crashes. We need $5/month to make it monitored once per minute by [https://binarycanary.com Binary Canary] service. For phone notifications we need $20/month (instead of $5/month). Alternative: https://www.pingdom.com/pricing

==Calculation of press release price==

Here is a calculation of the price of the press release service we target to attain (an one-time payment, not recurring):

'''Price decreased''' need to recalculate.'''

* $389 - [https://www.christiannewsservice.com/com-virtuemart-menu-manufacturers/services/cns-platinum-detail "CNS – Platinum"] package cost
* Press Release Writing Services - $149
* excess of 375 word limit - yet unknown as the PR is not yet written
* Audio News Release & Placement - $150
* International Religious Media Outlets - $125
* Conservative U.S. Media Outlets & Newswires - $95
* Christian Media Outlets - $75
* Times Square Billboard High Res Photo - $350 (very expensive, we probably should not order this option)

So, the expected sum (without ''Times Square Billboard High Res Photo'') is $983.

===Press release points===

These are possible PR stress points (in no particular order):

* Site for studying Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) without vowels.
* Without vowels it is: 1. easier to study; 2. has more different meanings what is important for understanding God's word.
* The site is a wiki that is can be edited by anyone wanting to contribute, you are free to express your opinion on Hebrew Bible and write articles on various topics related with the Bible.
* The site is not-confessional and welcomes all religions (Christians, Jews, Mormons, etc.) and even atheists.
* We need more students and translators. We need volunteers and donations.
* The site contains an easy tutorial of ancient Hebrew without vowels.
* This site is created with a pretentious purpose to collect all possible translations and all commentaries for the entire Hebrew Bible.
* The primary reason for creating this site is the belief that Tanakh is the word of God and it should be studied in all senses possible.
* This press release should call the reader to study ancient Hebrew (without vowels) and become an active translator.

==Is it worth to buy SEO?==

Discuss whether it is a good package or an over-cost.

Should we buy SEO at all? because there are too little total Google search for such keywords as "Old Testament", "Hebrew Bible", and even "Bible".

For example (2015 Dec 1) Google requests (using AdWords keyword planner):
* Old Testament - 33100 requests per month
* Hebrew Bible - 22200 requests per month

Even if we get first position for these two keywords, [http://marketingland.com/new-click-rate-study-google-organic-results-102149 it is 31.24% CTR].

Thus (in the assumption of first positions, which seems unrealistic for [[User:Victor_Porton|me]]), we get (33100+22200)*0.3124 = 17275 additional visits per month.

Please discuss if it is worth money. "The Spectrum Group Online, LLC" is definitely an overcost. searchberg.com can be discussed.

[http://www.affordableseofl.com/seo-tampa-service/ An another SEO company prices.]

==Donation campaigns at external sites==

We also collect donations at the following sites:
* [https://onetoday.google.com/ Google One Day] giving fund
* [https://pledgie.com/campaigns/30548 pledgie.com]
* [http://www.guidestar.org/profile?id=47-4097210 GuideStar]

We also should sign up for [https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/ PayPal's Giving Fund]. For this we need a bank statement or a voided check (and for this we need to open a bank account first).

==See also==

* [[Project:Volunteer|Volunteer]]
* [[Project:Contribute|Help the project]]

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

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Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. '''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/6 Donate]''' <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

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2019-08-03T04:36:22Z

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Site for researching all meanings of Hebrew Bible. '''[https://crypto4ngo.org/project/view/5 Donate]''' <div style="float:right"><addthis /></div>

Grammar:Tutorial/Definite article

2019-07-15T14:51:44Z

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The definite article ה added as a prefix to a noun is similar in sense to the English definite article “the”.

The most important functions of the definite article are individualization and generalization.

; Individualization :
: a) denoted a unique thing. Example: השמש (the Sun);
: b) a thing was already mentioned before;
: c) it is clear what is meant from the situation or the context.

; Generalization
: The article is inserted before a noun denoting a whole class of things. Example: [[Hebrew:האדם|האדם]] (“a man” meaning the mankind).

Grammar:Tutorial/Grammatical number

2019-07-15T14:51:03Z

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There are three numbers: singular, plural, and double.

The following is a rule (but there are many exceptions from this rule):
*The plural of a feminine noun ending with ה is formed by replacing ה with ות.
*The plural of a noun ending with ות is formed by replacing ות with יות.
*The plural of a noun ending with ית is formed by replacing ית with יות.
*The plural of a noun ending with ת but not with ות or ית is sometimes formed by replacing ת with ות, but this case has many exceptions.
*The plural of some nouns (especially masculine) ending with ה is formed by replacing ה with ים.
*The plural of the rest nouns (mainly masculine) not ending with ה is formed by adding ים at the end of the word.

Because the rule above has many exceptions, it is possible to identify whether the plural of a given noun ends with ות or with ים only by consulting a dictionary.

The plural of the word [[Hebrew:בית|בית]] (“house”) is [[Hebrew:בתים|בתים]]. The plural of the word [[Hebrew:איש|איש]] (“man”) is [[Hebrew:אנשים|אנשים]].

Double number forms are the same as plural. But double number means two things instead of an indefinite plural number.

Accordingly [[Grammar:Cites#lambdinrus|this book]] only the following words have double number:
*names of measures and numbers;
*words denoting pair-things (such as hands of a man).

Hebrew:כרעה

2019-07-14T13:35:08Z

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''[[TODO]]: This entry does not conform to our dictionary pattern.''

Verb; ({{Strong|7462}});
* to tend a flock

Noun Masculine; ({{Strong|7463}});
* companion
* friend of the King

Noun Feminine; ({{Strong|7465}});
* female associate
* attendant of maidens

Verb; ({{Strong|7466}});
* breakage
* broken
* to shatter

Hebrew:עדרו

2019-07-14T13:35:00Z

Victor Porton:

''[[TODO]]: This entry does not conform to our dictionary pattern.''

From [[Hebrew:עדר|עדר]]

Verb; ({{Strong|5737}});
* to help
* to hoe or dig
* to be lacking, fail

Proper Name Masculine; ({{Strong|5738}});
* Eder

Noun Masculine; ({{Strong|5739}});
* flock
* herd

({{Strong|5740}});
* a flock
Noun Pronoun?(Pr) Masculine;
* a Merarite Levite in the time of David
Noun Pronoun?(Pr) Location;
* a town in the extreme south of Judah on the border of Edom
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Not sure I understand this Suffix:
ו (see also נו, הו):

3rd person, plur. perfect
3rd person, plur., masc. imperfect (י□□□ו)
2nd person, plur., masc. imperfect (ת□□□ו)
plur., masc. imperative (□□□ו)
noun with 3rd person, sing., masc. pronoun suffix (his).

(from [[Grammar:Quick]])
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