Africans and Europeans Are the True Israelites: Israel Shall Finally Be Restored

By Embaye Melekin

“…Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six, 666.” (Revelation 13:18)

I was born on 06/16/1956 (666.) I am destined, ordained, blessed and bestowed by the Lord to reveal the truth and to be an instrument in restoring the ancient Kingdom of Israel to its past glories as God’s covenanted people. The Kingdom of Israel had always existed in our midst but was lost and concealed from our knowledge for many centuries while we multiplied in various regions of the world.
It is now the time for the Lord to restore the Kingdom of Israel as his precious and anointed people of God. God shall ultimately graft back all the Israelites worldwide to their original tree and they shall all identify themselves as the covenanted people and heirs to the blessings of God
This book is a testament of God and I wrote it with the aspiration and revelation of the Lord. The Lord and his blessed Son, Jesus Christ, shall be worshipped and revered by the entire Israelites all over the world when they come to the knowledge of the truth and to the knowledge of themselves.
I have proven that Africans and Europeans are indeed the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and are the covenanted people of God. Both blacks and whites shall rise and grow together and they shall both be the blessed people of God from henceforward.
This is the end of time when the whole world shall be renewed and would be led by an entirely new perception as the authenticated Israelites. This book has established that task. It is the era when Satan shall be tied down for a thousand years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: May 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984595171

Embaye Melekin

I am an Eritrean by origin residing in Toronto as a citizen of Canada. Conversation with God is my seventh book and probably my last. I am a Catholic by religion but have various religious affiliations in my family. I learnt how to communicate with God since my childhood but only recently did I become so committed and knew the benefits of his guidance. I was always ostracized and condemned and even admitted to a mental hospital for merely saying that I spoke to God. I am a divorced father of three, two of whom are autistic kids and wonderful children. I came to Canada from Nigeria where I resided as a refugee for a total of fifteen years. I left Eritrea in 1975 to avoid the escalating war at the time and have never returned since then because of the brutal regime that controls the country.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 Abraham’s covenant with God

CHAPTER 2 The Hebrew People and their language

CHAPTER 3 Additional Old Testament Hebrew words

CHAPTER 4 New Testament Hebrew words

CHAPTER 5 Mary and Jesus

CHAPTER 6 Who are the Gentiles?

CHAPTER 7 Who are the Jews?

CHAPTER 8 Are the Arabs Gentiles?

CHAPTER 9 Are the Asians Gentiles and the children of Abraham?

CHAPTER 10 Are Africans Israelites?

CHAPTER 11 Was Jesus a Jew?

CHAPTER 12 Who were the lost sheep of Israel and the Samaritans?

CHAPTER 13 The Gospel of Matthew

CHAPTER 14 The Gospel of Mark

CHAPTER 15 The Gospel of Luke

CHAPTER 16 The Gospel of John

CHAPTER 17 The Acts of the Apostles

CHAPTER 18 Letters of Paul

CHAPTER 19 The Prophets on the Gentiles

CHAPTER 20 Israel in prophecy

CHAPTER 21 Brief history of Eritrea

CHAPTER 22 Israel in the Holy Bible and the African Bible

CHAPTER 23 The New World Order

CHAPTER 24 Proof that Europeans are Israelites

PREFACE

In this book Bible names and their meanings in Tigre are tabulated to ascertain that Tigre is the Hebrew that was spoken by the ancient Israelites. This language that is exclusively spoken in Eritrea is the closest languages to Hebrew that the original Israelites spoke. The Language the present-day Babylonian Jews speak, Aramaic, is mostly a Babylonian language and has little semblance to the original Hebrew language of the ancient Israelites.

Tigre is the closest to Hebrew, followed by Tigrigna and then Amharic. According to Eritrean histories, the Israelites came to our regions around 600BC, as also verified and authenticated by the records of the African Bible, the Book of Mormon, and Tigre has been spoken ever since then. It is another indication to show that Africans are the descendants of Manasseh and thus, authentic Israelites.

Almost all the words and names in the Bible have their authentic meanings interpreted in Tigre that depict their true intended representations and interpretations.

Africans and the black race are intended to know their true history and origins at God’s appointed time. They shall remain ignorant of their true identities and shall be a lost people until then. Fortunately, the time has come for those prophecies to be fulfilled now. Not only Africans but also Asians, Europeans, Arabs and the Jews shall know their true identities also. It shall now be the era of all the prophecies being fulfilled as they were written in the African Bible, and the Holy Bible, and that is what I have accomplished in this book.

I have also done great strides in this book to identify the Europeans as true Israelites. All Europeans shall declare their nations as an extension of the original Kingdom of Israel due to the affinity their languages share with Tigre which is the modern Hebrew language.

The following are some biblical names and their meanings in the Tigre language. The contents shall unravel the black race as descendants of Manasseh and therefore authentic Israelites and also expose and identify the history of the Gentiles, the white race, and even the Jews. The contents of this book shall be of tremendous benefit and to the comprehensive understanding of the contents of the African Bible, and the Holy Bible fully.

CHAPTER ONE

ABRAHAM’S COVENANT WITH GOD

The Bible is the word of God and all the authors of the book wrote their narrations with the inspiration of God. The Bible is full of prophetic predictions and all the forecasted renditions have either been fulfilled or shall be executed and accomplished in the future. Many able scholars have critically studied the uncountable verses of the Bible and have postulated their various theories, presumptions and even speculations and published and preached their perceived notions throughout the Christian world in particular.

Many of the prophecies and a large portion of the Bible are subject to varied interpretations and many have hypothesized diverse analysis and understandings over the past many generations. Christian theologians have established a pattern of beliefs based on the Bible that have been established as the doctrines of the faith over the many centuries. Such dogmas have become the established creeds and system of beliefs among most of the Christian churches and faith throughout the world.

The Catholic Church was the initial prognosticator of the Christian dogma and was the sole custodian of the interpretation of the contents of the tenets of the Bible for many centuries. However, with the split and separation of the Protestant Church alternative theories and interpretations of the Bible began to emerge espoused by various denominations. As a result, varied beliefs and church traditions began to take root and the Bible was interpreted by various Christian entities in accordance with their understandings of the Bible and to sometimes carve separate identities for themselves.

Today, the numerous and diverse Christian denominations have gone their separate ways and preach the tenets of the Bible according to their own comprehension, discernment, perception and conception and some even going astray. The evangelicals in particular that have sprouted all over the world and they preach and adhere to their varied form of the Christian faith and have become the primary instruments to the diverse interpretation of the Bible.

The contemporary Christian church is fractured and the Bible is subject to particularized interpretations and elucidations and the various denominations adhere and hold fast to their own versions of Bible understandings. Particular verses in the Bible are given varied interpretations and explanations to suit the code of beliefs upheld, endorsed and advocated by the numerous denominations in the Christian world. Presently, Christians all over the world establish their own unique churches that propagate their own versions of Bible truths. Pentacostalist churches are springing up consistently promoting a diverse doctrine of the Christian faith and preach especially the Gospel according to their own understanding and convictions.

It is a farfetched ambition to aspire for a singular church that represents the entire Christian faithfuls. That era was eradicated when the Catholic Church abrogated its dominance among all Christians and splintered into numerous denominations. The trend continued unabated in recent centuries and the fracturing of the Christian faith still continues till date. Numerous churches proliferated mostly led by charismatic preachers and church leaders. Even though the Catholic and Orthodox churches still command the largest Christian adherents in the world their memberships have been dwindling in the past century in particular. The trend of the propagation and explosion of smaller churches with restricted memberships seem to be the future of the Christian faith.

In today’s world the Bible has become a book with disparate interpretations and subject to individual conjunctions and varied perceptions. Any ambitious preacher could establish a church and espouse personal understandings of the Bible and entrench it as its fundamental doctrine of such churches. Such churches are proliferating, mushrooming and burgeoning everywhere in the world. Even though most of these churches have some fundamental similarities in the manner of their interpretation of the Bible they still, however, preach diverse ideas that make them unique and gives them distinctive characteristics that makes them different from the other churches. As a result, the Bible is preached subject to personal interpretations and there is no central organ of Christianity that dictates the accurate interpretation and analysis of the Bible.

The Most misconstrued aspect of the Bible propagated by the various Christian entities is pertaining to the fate of ancient Israel. The Bible provides some versions of the eventual destiny of ancient Israel but not sufficient information to make educated deductions. Many of the prophetic passages pertaining to Israel are unfortunately misconstrued by various theological scholars and preachers. As is seemingly documented in the Old Testament of the Bible the destiny and fates of the ten tribes of Israel ended with the conquest of the Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in around 722 BC.

The Old Testament of the Bible tells us that the Kingdom of Israel with its capital at Samaria was besieged by the Assyrians for some time and was eventually conquered. Ultimately, according to the records of the Bible, the ten tribes of Israel were exiled and dispersed among the nations and thus terminating their existence as a people in the region. The records also tell us that the land previously occupied by the ten tribes of Israel was re-occupied by other foreign entities and thus ending the existence of the ten tribes of Israel in the region. Unfortunately, no details of the war that supposedly raged between Israel and Assyria are enumerated in the Bible. No numbers of casualties that were incurred are tabulated in the Bible and lacked information of precisely how many Israelites were dispersed among the neighbouring nations.

Many research oriented scholars have attempted to make sense of the sudden disappearance of the entire Kingdom of Israel. The vanishing of the ten tribes of Israel from the annals of the Bible records directly contradicted the oath and covenant the Lord entered with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Lord saw the entire Israel as the pearl of his eyes and consistently vowed to protect the people of Israel to the end. Why then did the Lord abandon Israel to its final extermination and to be a nation no more, or did he?

It is apparent that none of us could find substantive responses from the texts of the Bible to some of our passionate and burning questions. The Bible is sometimes ambiguous and is silent on some of the issues that we crave for definite answers. As a result we are forced and obliged to make our own inferences and conjectures to fill in the gaps in our own varied faiths. Such presumptions and suppositions open the Bible to varied and even sometimes erroneous interpretations. For example theories abound as to the whereabouts of the ten tribes of Israel and even if they presently exist at all. Similarly, varied opinions prevail to determine if Jesus was indeed a Jew or not.

The Bible is a complex book enumerated and narrated by various authors who were bestowed with God’s inspirations. For those who study the Bible critically and wholeheartedly they could identify the solutions to their vital questions if they possess the ability to interlink the scattered and diversified verses in the entire Bible. The Bible is not comparable to a fiction book where all the answers are readily available in every chapter. In many instances the reader of the Bible would have to rely on some randomly inscribed verses throughout the Bible to prove and establish a fundamental truth. The prophetic verses in particular are subject to diverse, wide-ranging and mottled interpretations and could lead to falsified assumptions and conclusions if not appropriately scrutinized and adequately understood.

The Bible is a complex book and in some instances we are forced to make our own summations predicated on our own personal assumptions and postulations. Sometimes we have to play guesswork to satiate our curiosities and cravings for the ultimate truths. As a result of our quest for the truth Christians have established suppositions and theories to answer some of the challenging issues contained in the Bible which lack substantive explanations. Some of the hypothesis formulated by the various churches and distinguished preachers have become the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Such presumptions, inferences and deductions have been made for lack of substantive clarity from the texts of the Bible.

Prominent among the misconceptions theorized by the entire Christian faith pertains to the issue and accurate identities of the Gentiles. There is no definite information in the texts and passages of the Bible that unambiguously and categorically discern the explicit identities of the Gentiles. Hence, it is widely acknowledged and universally accepted within the Christian world that the term Gentile depicted in the Bible is in reference to all non-Jews members of the human race.

The obvious misconceptions upheld by the entire Christian communities regarding the Gentiles have rendered the Bible as a baseless and ambiguous document that lacked clear authenticity and definite and truthful information. Bestowing the blessings and the sacred covenants the Lord entered with Israel exclusively to the Jews have grossly diminished the importance of the tenets of the Bible. All non-Jews have been denigrated to believe and accept that they are lesser human beings in the eyes of God and that the Lord only catered exclusively for the Jews. Such a damaging misconception, erroneous belief and fallacy had negatively impacted the non-Jews members of the human race and especially within the Christian faith.

Confining Israel to the Jews only has tacitly, unenthusiastically and adversely impacted faithful Christians to a large extent. Non-Jews have been made to accept their fate as secondary members of humanity in the eyes of God. Christians felt less valued by the Lord. The many covenants the Lord entered with Israel in all the Old Testament texts are inaccurately and unjustifiably perceived by Christians not to be applicable to them also.

The Jews have adamantly, incisively and astutely maintained that they are exclusively the only authentic Israelites for many centuries. They had relegated the Gentiles in particular as fringe benefactors of the blessings of the Lord that he rendered upon the people of Israel throughout the Bible recitations. They successfully imparted and upheld such a bogus notion mainly because the identities of the Gentiles are not accurately, explicitly, unequivocally and unambiguously defined in the texts of the Bible.

An overwhelming portion of the Old Testament texts in particular are dedicated to Israel and their journeys under the tutelage of the Lord. Israel enjoys a special status in the eyes of God. The Lord promised to guide and guard Israel to the end. The blessings and the covenants the Lord entered with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were to be fulfilled upon the Israelites and their future generations. The Lord blessed Abraham that his descendants shall be numerous and shall encompass the earth. Obviously that promise and covenant would be rendered false if we are to assume that the Jews are the only descendants of Abraham.

The insignificant numbers of Jews compared to the world population are remotely what the Lord intended, proposed and projected when he made his promise to Abraham. If we are to believe and accept the covenant the Lord entered with Abraham as the ultimate truth then significant numbers of the world population must trace their origins to Abraham.

The Lord entered into a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and his words are documented in the Bible. Since the passages and contents of the Bible are inspired by the Lord then we must accept them as the ultimate truths and endorse them wholeheartedly, unreservedly and unconditionally.

And behold, the word of the Lord came to Abram, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them; and he said unto him, So shall your seed be. (Genesis 15:5-6)

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abraham fell on his face and God talked with him saying, As for me, behold my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of many nations I have made thee.

And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee…..And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations."(Genesis 17:2-9 KJV)

The blessings of the Lord unto Abraham are very apparent, unambiguous and abundant. The seed of Abraham are blessed to be numberless as the stars in heaven. As we read and analyse the verses of the Bible we are expected to accept the facts detailed in the book as the ultimate truths. We cannot pick and choose those we assume to be plausible and discard those that sow scepticism and doubts in our minds. If Abraham’s seed were foretold to be plentiful and exceedingly abundant in numbers then we should accept and acknowledge them as the basic facts that must have been accomplished fully.

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard thee; Behold I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation, But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. (Genesis 17: 19-21 KJV)

The Bible is tabulated in great details and very succinct, explicit and extremely unambiguous and unequivocal in its clarifications. Compared to other religious books, like the Koran, the Bible narrations are very blunt and straightforward that cannot be skewed to misinterpretations. Here we are told that Abraham would be blessed with two sons each bestowed with his own blessings. Ishmael was to be the father of a great nation but the ultimate blessings shall be upon Isaac that Sarah would ultimately bear for Abraham.

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast has done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, as the sand which is upon the sea shore and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22:15-18 KJV)

The Lord continued to bless Abraham and his seed. Abraham passed the test of God and was willing to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, to appease the Lord and obey his instructions. It is evident that the seed of Abraham were predestined to be uncountable in numbers. And since the Bible is the word of God the prophetic messages should be accurate and fulfilled according to the manner they were predicted. To authenticate and solidify his blessings the Lord further renewed his covenant with the seed of Abraham also in subsequent narrations of the Bible. God spoke to Isaac and also Jacob and repeated the same blessings that he bestowed upon Abraham and also upon them.

And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of; Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these countries. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, (Genesis 26:2-4 KJV)

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 28:12-14 KJV)

The blessings of Abraham were to be extended to Isaac and Jacob who would ultimately become the forefather of the Israelites. It is of paramount importance that all Bible scholars and Christian preachers of all the denominations strive to link ancient Israel with contemporary inhabitants of the earth. Until such a time that we are able to identify all the descendants of Abraham the passages of the Bible shall continue to be an enigma and a mystery and subject to various types of interpretations, innuendoes and allusions.

The Bible is filled with all forms of verifiable attributes and features that could be linked constructively to substantiate and identify the ancient Israelites and all the children of Abraham in today’s world. The prophetic messages pronounced by the Lord must be indisputable and their unquestionable, irrefutable and incontrovertible fulfillments must be as certain, guaranteed and definite as the rising sun in the morning. As long as we are unable to identify and certify the fulfillments of God’s promises and covenants we shall remain blind and disoriented and shall delve into very shallow understandings of the tenets of the Bible.

Today, overwhelming segments of the various Christian denominations wrongly attribute the existence of ancient Israel in our contemporary world to the Jews exclusively. All of them have relinquished their roles and duties to critically scrutinize, dissect and wholly analyze the tenets of the Bible and pray for the guidance of God to lead them to the appropriate conclusions indented in the word of God. They have all abandoned their obligations to teach and preach the ultimate truth and portray, reveal and openly expose the true messages of the Bible accurately and without falsehood, deception and personally concocted fabrications.

As a result, instead of preaching and upholding the singular message contained and conveyed in the Bible various denominations have sprung up sermonizing and lecturing their own version of their misconstrued interpretations. Several Christian sects have misled their memberships and sometimes espoused theories bordering into fictitious summations and largely misconstruing the sacred, sacrosanct and pertinent messages of the Bible.

Apart from our woeful failures to adequately and effectively identify the descendants of Abraham and ancient Israelites in our present world we also have negated and neglected the blessings of Jacob unto his grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh. The blessings of Jacob to his grandsons were inspired by the Lord and his prophetic messages were certain to be fulfilled.

The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. (Genesis 48:16-20 KJV)

Our quest to identify the heirs to our patriarch Abraham’s descendants must be the paramount obligation to ascertain the Bible as the word of God. Abraham is the most prominent personality in the Bible with whom God entered the most significant covenants that affect the entire humanity. Until we identify, verify and authenticate all of Abraham’s distinct descendants we shall continue to play guesswork to explain the tenets of the Bible passages. Abraham is the most significant and noteworthy individual in whom the entire world is blessed and the promises of the Lord entirely and wholly fulfilled

From the tenets and doctrines of the Bible we should strive to contrive and discover the various segments of the human race and how they are constructively linked to our ancestor Abraham. That is the challenge that all the scholars of the Bible must focus on. The Bible is vast in knowledge and encompasses various aspects of human experiences. But and above all the Bible identifies the different segments of the world population and the source of their origins and how they are linked to Abraham. The ultimate pursuit in our endeavour to segregate the various descendants of Abraham should be to duly synthesise and amalgamate all our findings to arrive at authentic, genuine and verifiable conclusions. Our final findings must be valid, realistic, accurate and truthful that will past any test of ardent and fervent scrutiny.

Our mission and pursuit should be to trace and track down all the descendants of Abraham and where they are located today in our contemporary world. In the process we should incontrovertibly, indisputably and without the shadow of a doubt identify and distinctly distinguish and ascertain who the Gentiles, the remnants of the house of Israel and the Jews are from the passages of the Bible. Once we successfully segregate and isolate these important entities in the Bible we could conveniently link them to the Europeans, Asians and Africans and how they evolved as the seed of Abraham.

The Bible contains vast knowledge and information most of which are disregarded by many Bible scholars and preachers. Even more, some of the Bible passages are misconstrued by such Bible researchers to fit into their skewed narratives. The Bible should be read in its true context and its messages taken literally without reading unfounded meanings into its contents. Vast part of the Bible is straightforward for the understandings of even a simple mind. However, many of those who propose to be authorities in Bible studies have misled the Christian communities and imparted their own personal interpretations of the holy book. As a result, vast portions of the Bible have been rendered insignificant and their valuable messages have been drastically diminished.

The most distorted and misrepresented aspect of the Bible is pertaining to the origin and subsequent relocation of the Gentiles. Preachers in the various Christian denominations and Bible scholars and experts have falsely assumed and fallaciously and misleadingly concluded that the Gentiles are all the human beings on earth that are not Jews. Obviously, there are no such information in the annals of the Bible to substantiate such bogus and fabricated claims. The Bible identifies the Gentiles as a particular segment of the human race upon which certain prophecies were to be fulfilled exclusively upon them.

This book is primarily focused on indefinitely and unambiguously identifying the Gentiles and who they specifically are in today’s world. And I shall attempt to do so quoting the relevant Bible verses to substantiate and authenticate my valuable claims. I shall wholly rely on the passages of the Bible to ascertain and establish my final conclusions. In the process, I shall wholly identify and unravel the origin of the remnants of the house of Israel and the true identities of the Jews as Israelites or not. Lastly, I shall attempt to discover the true origins of the Europeans, Africans and the Asians and how they are linked and related to our ancestor Abraham.

CHAPTER TWO

THE HEBREW PEOPLE AND

THEIR LANGUAGE

The Bible tells us that Abraham was a Hebrew and he and his descendants spoke the Hebrew language. According to the Bible the Hebrew language was spoken from the time of Abraham and by his subsequent generations and up to the time of the era of Jesus Christ. Today, the only people who claim to speak the Hebrew language are the contemporary Babylonian Jews but the facts prove otherwise. It could be verified appropriately from the records of the Bible that Abraham was a Hebrew

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. (Genesis 14:13 KJV)

It could also be verified that descendants of Abraham were also called Hebrews. For example, Joseph was identified as a Hebrew when he refused to sleep with the wife of his master who tried to seduce him. Joseph run out of the house and left his garment behind that his master’s wife used to get him imprisoned.

And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth. That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: (Genesis 39: 11-14 KJV)

We also affirm that the Israelites continued to be called Hebrews until the time of Moses. The Israelites served as slaves to the Egyptians for more than four hundred years and during that time never lost their identities nor abandoned their Hebrew language. The Lord God of the Hebrews was always with them and preserving them as he had promised his loyal servant. Abraham.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. (Exodus 3:16-18)

And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. (Exodus 10:3 KJV)

We see repeatedly the Lord referring to his covenanted children of Israel as his own. The Lord called himself the God of the Hebrews while Moses and Aaron negotiated with Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go and to serve their God. This clearly shows that the Hebrew people, the Israelites, spoke the Hebrew language from the time of Abraham to the time of their liberation from their slavery in Egypt. Similarly, we see documentations in the Bible that the Hebrew Israelites remained united and one people until the time of Samuel the prophet;

And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal. (1Samuel 13:3-4)

Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. (Jonah 1:8-9 KJV)

However, very little of Hebrew is mentioned after the split of Israel into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in the south. Hebrew continued to be spoken by the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah until Israel was defeated by the Assyrians and dispersed into the nation. Similarly, the Kingdom of Judah was defeated and exiled to Babylon where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin who were taken as captives had to adopt Aramaic as their primary language. Aramaic was the language spoken by the Babylonians where the captives of the Kingdom of Judah were exiled for more than seventy years.

Similarly, the Hebrews as a people is never stated in the New Testament of the Bible with the exception of Paul identifying himself as a Hebrew. Paul also indicated that he spoke Hebrew and the people that inhabited Jerusalem and its environs also spoke and understood the language as is indicated in the Book of Acts.

But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect saying (Acts 21:39-40 KJV)

Other than that no more emphasis are made to identify the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the other cities in Judah as Hebrews. Paul spoke both Hebrew and Aramaic, a Hebrew dialect that was spoken by all the Babylonia Jews. The Gentiles that lived in Jerusalem and the other districts of Judah exclusively spoke Hebrew, the language of the original Israelites. However, the Jews spoke Aramaic the language they brought along with them from their exiles in Babylon. Aramaic was the language of the Babylonians as the records of the Bible indicate.

From the time of Abraham the Israelites spoke Hebrew as their primary language. This assertion could be authenticated from the meanings of their names. Every name mentioned in the Bible could only have interpretation in the Hebrew language. None of the names could adequately be interpreted in Aramaic, the language the Jews spoke and the language they inherited from their exile in Babylon.

Today the authentic Hebrew language is spoken exclusively in Eritrea. God in his own wisdom preserved the Hebrew language in Africa. Eritreans were never ever conquered by outside invaders for more than two thousand and six hundred years. As a result, Eritreans have been able to preserve their Israeli heritages and language for that period of time. If anyone desires to observe the traditions, cultures and language of ancient Israel one should visit the churches and monasteries in Eritrea and even Ethiopia. Hardly much has changed for the past two thousand and six hundred years. Eritrea and Ethiopia have unique cultures and traditions that were distinctive to ancient Israel.

Above all the Tigre language spoken exclusively in Eritrea is a carbon copy of the Hebrew language, the authentic language of the ancient Israelites. The language the contemporary Jews speak is predominantly Aramaic with tints of the Hebrew language. As a result the Jews could not find and interpret the meanings of Bible words and names in the language they speak. However, all the names and words in the Bible have complementary meanings in Tigre especially and the language spoken exclusively in Eritrea. For example, all the names of the twelve children of Israel have the exact meanings their mothers pronounced them to have.

And so also all the other meanings of the names in the Bible from the time of Adam to the time of the slavery of Israel in Egypt have Hebrew names with their equivalent meanings in especially the Tigre language. Hence, there is no doubt that especially Tigre is the exact replica of the Hebrew language, the authentic language of ancient Israel.

Below are a list of names and words contained in the holy Bible and their interpretations and equivalent meanings in Tigre especially. Such words and their corresponding meanings in Tigre authenticate the fact that the Tigre is the contemporary Hebrew language, the bona fide language of ancient Israel. The language the contemporary Jews speak is predominantly and for the most part Aramaic, the language they imported from their seventy to a hundred years of exile in Babylon. It is primarily the reason why the Jews cannot explain and interpret the prominent words and names in the Bible in the language they presently speak.

Below are some of the Hebrew names and words and their interpretations in Tigre which accurately depict the exact meanings indicated in the Bible. The meanings of these words cover the period of time from the era of Adam to the time of the slavery of the Israelites in Egypt. These meanings could not be coincidences for their meanings are all interpreted accurately and as authentically from the annals of the holy Bible.

(1) BIBLE

The name Bible is an English word but has similar meaning in Tigre and Tigrigna which are similar languages which are the contemporary Hebrew language. B-ible could mean By-what I say or By-prophesy. Ible is derived from ibleka or ibleki which mean I say to you in the Tigre language.

I have proven that many English words have the same meanings in Tigre. For example, the word fight with all the letters pronounced have the same meaning as the English interpretation.

I change the h in the English language and all the words in the Bible by y. Hence, the word fight will be changed to figyt and means flogging each other in Tigre which is the authentic Hebrew languages.

(2) GENESIS

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1).

Genesis is the first book of the Bible and starts with the creation of the universe. Genes is a Tigre word which means designed or created. Hence, Genesis means creations and represents the exact meaning of the book as depicted in the Bible. God created the heaven and earth and all that exists in the universe within six days and rested on the seventh day.

(3) MAN AND WOMAN

And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And he took one of the ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. (Genesis 2:21-23)

As I indicated earlier that many English words have the same meanings in Tigre and Tigrigna which are Hebrew. The word man pronounced as maan simply means creation or creator depending on the context it is used. Our Lord Jesus Christ repeatedly called himself, the Son of Man, which means the Son of the Creator or the son of God for Jesus spoke Hebrew.

Woman is another English word that has Tigre meaning. Wo-man means and-creation. As a result, man and woman mean creation and creation since man was created first and woman was created next.

(4) ADAM AND EVE

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. (Genesis 3:20)

Adam in both Tigre means human beings but with different pronunciations it could have other meanings. For example, A’dam means inviter which is contrary to what the Bible tells us. According to the meaning of his name, Adam invited Eve to partake in the consumption of the forbidden fruit, which agrees with the version of Islam.

Addam, on the other hand has an entirely different meaning. Addam means intransigent, obstinate and could also imply a sense of plotting.

In Tigre, the letter v is rarely used in words. Hence, the v is replaced by w wherever it exists. And so, the name Eve becomes Ewe, which simply means Yes.

According to the meaning of the names of Adam and Eve, one did the invitation and the other responded in the affirmative. Adam invited and Eve said, yes. This is contrary to what is written in the Bible. Eve invited Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. However, in the Koran Adam invited Eve to partake in eating the forbidden fruit.

(5) CAIN AND ABEL

"And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare, Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.

And the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. …. And Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." (Genesis 4: 1-8)

Names and words containing el are common in the Bible. El or Al simply means most high or are reference to God. Hence, Abel or Ab-el means Father-most high or Father-God. Abel was favoured by God and is depicted in the meaning of his name.

Similarly, the meaning of Cain, also represents his actions and the lack of favour from God. Cain, pronounced as K’ayin, means evil one or wicked. He committed a wicked deed by killing his brother, Abel.

Anybody who kills another person for leisure should be sentenced to death. That is the commandment of God. Such killers are slotted to go to hell for they do the work of the devil and are the properties of Satan. Shedding the blood of the innocent is an unpardonable sin in the sight of the Lord and there is no forgiveness for it.

(6) NOAH

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the land which the Lord hath cursed. (Genesis 5: 28-29)

When the h is changed to y the name Noah becomes Noay. Noay, pronounced as Noway, means herds implying the increase in wealth. Hence, the birth of Noah to his family was a wish for prosperity under the bad situation that existed.

Make you an ark of gopher wood, rooms shall thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of. The length of the art shall be three hundred cubits, the breath of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits. (Genesis 6:14-15)

Similarly, the name Noah or Newah simply means Long or Tall probably in comparison to the length and width of the ark that he built

(7) BABEL

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth. And they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11: 7-9)

B-ab-el means By-father-most high or By-father-God which depicts the act of God against the people who built the tower. Similarly, B-a’bel means By-storm.

(8) ABRAM AND SARAI

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get you out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make thy name great; and thou shall be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curse you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed….And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls they had gotten in Haran and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (Genesis 12: 1-5KJV)

A’bram in the Tigre languages means skinny or emaciated or poor. On the other hand Ab-ra’m means Father of-destruction. Both meanings of his name do not represent the blessing the Lord had on Abraham and his family.

Sarai or Tsarai is another name that does not conform with the blessings of the family. Sarai, simply means my enemy or my antagonist or my adversary in Tigre.

(9) BETHEL AND EGYPT

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Haion on the east: and there he build an alter unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was grievous in the land. (Genesis 12: 8-10KJV)….

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him Bethel.(Genesis 35:15)….. "And he (Jacob) built an alter, and called the place El beth el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother." (Genesis 35:7KJV)

Beth-el or Elbeth el means The house of-the most high or the house of-God, in Tigre. And since there are no words in Tigre containing the letter p it is replaced with b. As a result, Egypt is written as Egybt. The name Egybt means Adorned. On the other hand, if the g in Egybt is pronounced as the g in gun, then the meaning