The Word Tanakh

The Word Tanach (Old Testament)
The Tanach is made up of 3 sections of 39 books.

First section being the Torah (Laws) or first five books
*Bereisheet (Genesis, “In the beginning”)

Sh’mot (Exodus, “Names”)
Vayikra (Leviticus, “And He called”)
B’Midbar (Numbers, “In the Wilderness”)
D’varim (Deuteronomy, “Words”)

Second Section the Nevi’im (Prophets)
*Yahoshua (Joshua, “Yah is Salvation”)
*Shophetim (Judges, “Judges”)
*Shemu’El 1&2 (Samuel 1&2, “Heard El”)
*Melachim 1&2 (Kings1&2,”Sovereigns”)

YeshaYahu (Isaiah, “Salvation of Yah”)
YirmeYahu (Jeremiah, “Exultation of Yah”)
YehezqEL (Ezekiel, “Strength of EL”)
Dani’EL (Daniel, “Judgment of EL”)
Hoshea (Hosea, “Salvation”)
Yo’EL (Joel, “Yah is EL”)
Amos (Amos, “Burden”)
ObadYah (Obadiah, “Servant of Yah”)
Yonah (Jonah, “Dove”)
Mikhah (Micah, “Who is like Yah?”)
Nachum (Nahum, “Comfort”)
Ḥavaqquq (Habakkuk, “Embrace”)
TsephanYah (Zephaniah, “Treasured of Yah”)
Ḥaggai (Ḥaggai, “Festive”)
Z'kharYah (Zechariah, “Remembered Yah”)
Mal’akhi (Malachi, “My Messenger”)

The third section is Kethuvim (Writings)

Tehillim (Psalms)
Mishlei (Proverbs)
Iyyov (Job, “Hated”)
Shir Ha'Shirim (Song of Songs)
Ruth (Ruth)
Eikhah (Lamentations, “How”)
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes, “Convener”)
Hadassah (Esther, “Myrtle Tree”)
Ezra (Ezra, “Help”)
N'chemYah (Nehemiah, Consolation of Yah”)
Divrei Ha'Yamim 1&2 (Chronicles 1&2, “Annals of time”)
Where does the Name Tanakh comes from?
Many people believe the word Tanakh means First Covenant. This is not true, the word for Covenant in Hebrew is “Brit” as also used for the Brit Chadasha (New Testament) and the Abrahamic covenant is actually called Brit bein HaBetarim.
The word Tanakh is actually an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the the three sectors
(T)orah, (N)evi’im and (K)ethuvim – TaNaKh - T-N-K in English ( ת-נ-ך Tav-Nun-Kaf in Hebrew).

Very interesting to note as well is the word British, the word for man in Hebrew is “Ish” and woman is “Isha”. Brit means Covenant. British mean “Man of the Covenant” and yet the British people think they have no ties with Yisra’el. Mmmmm Think again!