Read – Jot & Tittle

The “jot” (or “yod”) is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet:

The word printed above is the Hebrew word for God (“Elohim”). It is the word that Moses wrote
in Genesis 1: 1-“In the beginning created the heaven and the earth.” Find the smallest letter in
this word and circle it. You have just circled a “jot” (yod).
The “tittle” is a very small mark that helps you to tell the difference between two Hebrew letters
that look almost the same.

Written above are 6 Hebrew letters grouped into three groups of two letters each. In each group
the two letters look very much alike. In each group, one of the letters has a small part added to it which
distinguishes it and makes it different from the other letter.  this is called a “tittle.”

We have something similar to this when we write English letters in script. If we don’t dot the “i”
it could look similar to an “1” . If we don’t cross the “t” it could look similar _to an “l” . If
Jesus were speaking to us today in English, He might say it this way, “Every dotting of the ‘1’ and every
crossing of the ‘t’ in the Word of God will be fulfilled.” Every letter and every word in the Bible is
important and is true. We need to understand God’s infallible Word, believe it and live it!