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3 Hebrew Words for Peace, Grace and Hope

Shalom, hen and tikvah — three Hebrew words for what God gives you

Hebrew & Bible

Full guide: 5 min · 4 chapters · 5 Hebrew words

Three of the most beautiful words in the Hebrew Bible describe something you receive rather than something you achieve. Shalom, hen, and tikvah — usually rendered peace, grace, and hope — each carry more than the English can hold. Hebrew has a way of folding an entire worldview into a single root. Read these three slowly, and verses you have known for years begin to open differently.

Each word here comes with the same four things: what it means, how it reads with Christ at the center, a verse worth memorising, and something to do with it this week.

The chapters

  1. 3 Hebrew Words for Peace, Grace and Hope
  2. 1. Shalom — שָׁלוֹם [sha-LOM] — Peace
  3. 2. Hen — חֵן — Grace
  4. 3. Tikvah — תִּקְוָה [tik-VAH] — Hope

Hebrew in this guide

henחֵן shalomשָׁלוֹם shalom lekhemשָׁלוֹם לָכֶם tikvahתִּקְוָה yeshuaיֵשׁוּעַ

Scripture it opens

Genesis 43:27-28 Luke 24:36 Isaiah 9:6 Ephesians 2:14 John 14:27 Genesis 6:8 John 1:16 Ephesians 2:8-9 Jeremiah 29:11 Romans 5:5 Hebrews 6:19 1 Peter 1:3 Romans 15:13

How it reads in the app

The same guide, opened in IsraelForYou: tap any Hebrew word and its meaning rises from below, with the verses it lives in.

A cracked clay vessel, an olive branch, and Jerusalem stone at sunset 3 Hebrew Words for Peace, Grace and Hope

Three of the most beautiful words in the Hebrew Bible describe something you receive rather than something you achieve. Shalom, hen, and tikvah — usually rendered peace, grace, and hope — each carry more than the English can hold. Hebrew has a way of folding an entire worldview into a single root. Read these three slowly, and verses you have known for years begin to open differently.

Each word here comes with the same four things: what it means, how it reads with Christ at the center, a verse worth memorising, and something to do with it this week.

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