The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English [Paperback]

Isaac E. Mozeson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

This landmark dictionary proves that English words can be traced back to the universal, original language, Biblical Hebrew. "Genesis II" supports a 'Mother Tongue' thesis, and the Bible also claims that Adam named the animals. This may seem difficult to accept, but then why do the translations of the following animals' names: Skunk, Gopher, Giraffe and Horse actually have corresponding meanings in Biblical Hebrew, such as: Stinker, Digger, Neck and Plower! The book features overwhelming data suggesting that the roots of all human words are universal, and that words have related synonyms and antonyms that must have been intelligently designed (perhaps by the designer of life himself!) The current hypothesis that language evolved from grunting ape-men may seem like the flat earth theory after reading this book. The 22,000 English-Hebrew links provide surprising evidence, and open new worlds of understanding, once we consider that all of these similar words could not be coincidences.

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"The Word is a challenge to linguists. The parallels traced seem far beyond the range of coincidence."

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THE WORD is a unique reference text that traces most English words back to their ultimate origin in Biblical Hebrew. More than ten years of original research reveals a bold new vision of the superbly engineered dynamics of human language.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561719420
• ISBN-13: 978-1561719426
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,313,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Hebrew

More About the Author

BIO -



Isaac Elchanan Mozeson was born in Vancouver in 1951, lived briefly in Kibbutz Saad, Israel, and grew up in Plymouth and Brookline, Mass. He taught English at universities like Yeshiva College (where he got his B.A.) and New York University (where he completed doctoral studies).
He moved from Teaneck, New Jersey in 2010 to Israel. Stay in touch, and receive blogs via Facebook or Twitter. Archived Posterous blogs are at www.edenics.net The premier Edenics site is www.edenics.org

Mozeson published a monograph and anthology
of Jewish-American poetry, reviewed books for Jewish newspapers, Publishers Weekly, and Judaica Book News, and authored books on Jewish history, Israeli oral history and a dictionary of urban slang.

Since The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English (1989), he has founded the new field of "Edenics" - documenting with a team of global researchers how Biblical Hebrew is the human language program gifted to Modern Humans at Eden, then diversified at The Tower of Babel.

That data is now twice as large, appearing in a CD dictionary. This isn't at Amazon, but lightcatcherbooks.com A multi-volume 1000-page paper dictionary is planned for 2012 or so. A download may be at Kindle, where my collected poems are, and where a Bible translation and various language booklets should appear.

In April 2011 the new edition of The Origin of Speeches came out. 2 1/2 chapter of all new material is included. Unlike Darwin's The Origin of Species, we see a world of meaning and purpose, of divine design, at the tip of our tongues.

Edenics video-lecturea in more languages will be added to the English, Spanish, French and German that we had in 2010. These are available at live events, and at www.edenics.org or www.lightcatcherbooks.com Other resources include audio CDs.


Brilliant Digital Entertainment is behind 2 Edenics web games which may be played at www.edenics.net A search function allows one to access a large percentage of our data base.

Mozeson had lectured extensively before a life-threatening Heat Stroke in the Galilee, Israel in 1997. Using this narrated slide show and projecting from the extensive data base available on CD, he hopes to make up for lack of clear speech as you discover the SaFaH BeROORaH of Beresheet 11 and Zephania 3:9.

Mozeson was invited to address the nascent Sanhedrin in Jerusalem in 2007. Other recent international appearances include an Aish HaTorah conference in Toronto, an outreach center in London and the University of Barcelona. Other Edenics presenters are available in several regions.

The new generation will get to choose to accept the word DORMANT coming from Latin dormir (to sleep) or Edenic (Pre-Hebrew) RaDaM. Is the pristine, original "sleep" word DRM or RDM?

All linguists think that words are evolved chimp chatter. Edenics suggests that the ancestor of Latin, then French, dormir got scrambled at a neuro-linguistic incident recalled by the Mayans and Chinese, and referred to elsewhere as The Tower of Babel. RaDaM means "sleep" because the first designed molecule of meaning, Resh-Daled/RD means "to go down" as in ROOT, which grows downward) and the 2nd, Daled-Mem/DM element means "silence" (as in DUMB).

Wake up! Discover that human language demonstrates immense design.
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30 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Word is a once in a lifetime find., July 8, 1999

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This review is from: The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English (Hardcover)

As I read the first page of The Word, I was thrilled to learn that someone had DISCOVERED the hypothesized Indo-European roots to our modern languages! Almost every language can trace some of its roots to this once dead, but now resurrected language, but in English, 95% of our language is demonstrably traceable directly or indirectly to Hebrew. Even some Amer-Indian words have more than coincidental resemblance to Hebrew. How could scholars have missed the connection? Could it possibly be antisemitism within the ranks of the 19th century German linguists, who introduced the science of etymology to the world? Isaac Mozeson is scholarly, yet entertaining as he traces language roots through the developing sciences of linguistics and etymology. And those who love Scripture and linguistics have a double treat in store.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but very questionable, July 20, 2003

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Vadim Cherny (Odessa Ukraine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English (Paperback)

The book is certainly interesting and worth reading, offering fresh insights into the English etymology. However, it's analysis is definitely not without flaws.

> Some imagination is required to find lip/nose images in Hebrew letters, corresponding to their pronounciation, although the suggestion is daring. Besides, old Phoenician Hebrew letters are quite different.

> If we consider possible wide substitutions, like R-L-N-(M) and work with three basic vowels (or even no vowels at all), add letters' reversal and omission, many three-letter roots are likely to coincide strictly by chance. The odds are only enhanced by the ambiguity of Latin transliteration and sometimes variant writing in Hebrew. Author also feels free to choose the suitable spelling either of modern or ancient English. Allow for the meaning to be not exactly the same, but related, and quite a lot of English words would find their equivalents in the much smaller Hebrew dictionary. Given such assumptions, it's overall plausible to find about a quarter of active English words related to Hebrew roots.

> Common linguistic approach is to analyze transformation of the groups of words, not of the single words. This book apparently lacks such analysis either for phonetical groups or those related by meaning. For example, it stresses the origin of giraffe and skunk words, but not of the animals comprehensively.

> Although the author traces similarities from Hebrew, this is not self-evident. Both Hebrew and English may inherit it from a source language, be it theoretical IE or actual bablit.

> Some very important hypothesis are not elaborated upon. Thus, the author asserts phonetical relation of Hebrew synonyms and antonyms. This is a bold assumption, and would take more than a single pair of words to convince a reasonable person.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Substantial Evidence, November 23, 2006

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K. Eliassi "Read Island" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English (Paperback)

This book is simply amazing. It is much more than a dictionary that reveals English has roots in Hebrew (or "Edenics" as the author likes to call it). But more importantly it reveals that other languages have potential roots in Hebrew. It provides actual words as evidence and gives details of roots and concepts. Linguists will undoubtedly hate this book because it dismisses half of their theories. After reading this book, you will begin to wonder and believe that all languages originated from one. Just like all people originated from one family. As time developed languages evolved and differentiated, but a careful inspection can potentially unmask their origin. This is what the author has done with English words originally believed to have etymologies of Latin. The author provides so much evidence (and those familiar with Hebrew can attest) that the reader must either provide alternative explanation or accept the theory. I have started to analyze some Farsi words and have already established the connection of countless words to Hebrew (Even words that are not believed to be of "Arabic" etymology). Scientists and linguists who have formed their ideology and must protect their theories will undoubtedly deny these points until a future time where more brave and advanced scientist all start to see how all languages must have originated from one language (that being Hebrew). Isaac Mozeson is a revolutionary and his theories will one day be accepted.