Learn and understand God's revelation through the lens of the originally given context: the Hebrew one.

Hebraikos is a Greek term that appears only one time in Scripture! In Luke 23:38 the author specifically states that the inscription "This is the king of the Jews." had been written in Latin, Greek and Hebrew!
Interestingly most translations don't make that distinction - maybe because it is thought of as a minor detail with not much importance. But the opposite is the case!The Father in heaven decided to reveal himself to a people he created by his own hand. He formed Israel, chose it as a light to the nations and as the place and people from whom his precious Son, the Savior of this world Yeshua/Jesus, would come forth as a holy offspring.Paul explains this over and over in Romans, how this order never has changed: to the Jews first and then to the Greek (which is synonymous for all Gentiles/ Non-Jews). But he also explains to us how and why - by God's own will - the revelation had been kept from the Jews.This inscription, that had been placed above a crown of thorns, shows us the never changing will of a Holy Creator God: Jesus, the lamb slain for our atonement was, is and will be the king of the world - Jews and Gentiles included! But it is time for us to recognize the original order again. Learn and understand God's revelation through the lens of the originally given context: the Hebrew one.Hebraikos is a call to no longer ignore the fact that we had almost two millenia of recognizing and understanding Jesus in a Greek and Roman Christian manner - with all the good and bad that came along with it. It's time to understand that there had been a third language from the beginning!

Maybe you are wondering why there is a four digit number in our logo. First of all: it has nothing to do with a year or time statement.
If you read through the first of our posts, you already learned about "hebraikos". One of the ways the Greek and Hebrew words of the Bible are organized (as a tool for studying it) is the Strongs Concordance.
Hebrew words are marked with H####, words in Greek with G####. If you look up G1444 you will find the word “Hebraikos".
You are probably wondering why it is important for us to implement this number! A good question to ask for sure!
Ancient Hebrew and Greek are both alphanumeric languages. Which means the letters have numerical value. For example aleph=1, bet=2 and so on. The same goes for the Greek letters. So for the writers of the ancient world it was completely normal to interchange numbers and letters for better understanding. (Which does not mean we read numbers into the Biblical texts! But we dive into this topic at some point for sure!)1 in Hebrew equals the letter Aleph, the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It derives from a form that showed the head of a bull.The no. 1 of and before all things, the head and leader is God. 4 in Hebrew is equaled by the letter dalet. Dalet also means door!
God is the one who is before every door there ever was, is and will be! We see this in Scripture, for example in Isaiah 22, in John 10 or Revelation 3: there is only One who holds the keys to all doors and is the door himself.
We don't read things into the Word of God - it's quite the opposite actually what we are aiming for! But it shows us how the Creator of the universe is before, in and above all things! How he has eternal authority we don't have.
1444 is our house number, if you will. It's his house where we want to be all the days of our lives. And it is him who rests on the threshold filling the whole house with his glory!

Hebraikos is a place to learn how to read the Word in its proper context — the Ancient Hebraic and Ancient Near East context. Hebraikos is the collaborative effort of two Bible and language nerds — Carolin Schubert (@diggingtodwell) and Rinka SyCip (@reluctantwatchman) who got connected on Instagram because of these very reasons Hebraikos was born.