In Biblical Hebrew, there is a mood not found in English, the cohortative. In the beginning--a period of remote and unknown antiquity, hid in the depths of eternal ages; and so the phrase is used in Proverbs 8:22 Proverbs 8:23. Genesis 1:26 does not prove the man made doctrine of the Trinity that was not a part of church teaching until it was approved starting with the Council of Nicea where only two being were recognized in the so-called Godhood – Yehovah and Yehoshua, so at that time God was Binitary.
In Genesis 1:26, both the verb "make" (asah) and the noun "image" (tselem) are in the plural. Genesis 1:26 - ויאמר אלהים נעשׂה אדם בצלמנו כדמותנו וירדו בדגת הים... - Then God said, man in Our image, according to Our... - Interlinear Study Bible It is, however, the world that was familiar to the ancient Hebrews for whom the inspired account of Genesis was originally composed.
Let us. א וַיְהִי רָעָב, בָּאָרֶץ, מִלְּבַד הָרָעָב הָרִאשׁוֹן, אֲשֶׁר הָיָה בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם; וַיֵּלֶךְ יִצְחָק אֶל-אֲבִימֶלֶךְ מֶלֶךְ-פְּלִשְׁתִּים, גְּרָרָה.
Listen to this Chapter in Hebrew. The plural pronoun “Us” is most likely a majestic plural from the standpoint of Hebrew grammar and syntax. Together, these two letters spell the word lev (לב), which means ‘heart’ in Hebrew.
Psalm 100:3 Know you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and …. 26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.” The word "image" is translated from the Hebrew tselem, and it means"shape, resemblance, figure, shadow. God--the name of the Supreme Being, signifying in Hebrew, "Strong," "Mighty." The phrase "in our image" is all one word in Hebrew (btselemnou). The first word in the Torah is Bereishit (בראשית), which begins with the letter bet (ב), while the last word in the Torah is Yisrael (ישראל), ‘Israel,’ which ends with the letter lamed (ל).
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Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth." They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, [ b ] and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
Genesis 1:26-30 New Living Translation (NLT) 26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings [ a ] in our image, to be like us.
Genesis 1:26 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB). 29 Also the appointment of food. 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. This mood is to be contrasted with the imperative.
Genesis Chapter 26 בְּרֵאשִׁית. ” It is called the traditional translation because it has been the dominant rendering of Genesis 1:1 since the Greek Septuagint, the first major translation of the Hebrew Bible (into Greek), produced by Jewish scholars in the third century BC. 1:1 When Hashem began. א וַיְהִי רָעָב, בָּאָרֶץ, מִלְּבַד הָרָעָב הָרִאשׁוֹן, אֲשֶׁר הָיָה בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם; וַיֵּלֶךְ יִצְחָק אֶל-אֲבִימֶלֶךְ מֶלֶךְ-פְּלִשְׁתִּים, גְּרָרָה. Following each of the six words below is a listing of the ways each Hebrew word has been translated, beginning in 1530 with Tyndale’s translation of Genesis. "There is nothing abstract in it. Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to …. Genesis 1:1, 2.THE CREATION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. In Gen 1:26, we have: King James 2000 Bible Young's Literal Translation 1:26 And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.` 27: Modern Hebrew
Job 35:10 But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;. This same word is used in Genesis 5:3:.