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The Aleph Tav Project

Ancient study with Torah scrolls and golden light

The Aleph Tav Project

Exploring the Hebrew Scriptures Through Their Ancient Letters

From the pictographic meanings hidden in every Hebrew letter to the covenant patterns woven through the Torah, we use interactive tools and original research to uncover what has been there since the beginning.

Read the Torah

Example Word Decodings

בראשית𐤁𐤒𐤀𐤔𐤉𐤕

Bereshit (In the Beginning)

The Son of the house, the Head of God, consumed by His own hand on a cross

אב𐤀𐤁

Av (Father)

The strength of the house

אם𐤀𐤌

Em (Mother)

The strength of the waters

בן𐤁𐤍

Ben (Son)

The house of the seed

תורה𐤕𐤅𐤒𐤄

Torah (Instruction)

The sign secured by the head who reveals

How the Torah Decoder Works

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Navigate

Browse any verse in the five books of the Torah

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Click a Word

Tap any Hebrew word to decompose it into its root consonants

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Decode

See Paleo-Hebrew pictographs, letter meanings, and generated interpretive sentences

Latest from the Project

Pictographic analysis represents one interpretive lens for Hebrew words. Scholars debate the validity of reading pictographic meanings into fully alphabetic Hebrew text. This app presents these readings as enrichment and study aids, not as replacement for lexical definitions.