🌘EXODUS 6:3🌒

[inavalan]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Literal meaning of each letter:
Ox,Behold,Nail,Behold


P.S. These literal meanings are probably abbreviated and there are probably more in-depth versions.

I just googled and I read that the first character is actually "hand", not "ox" ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ox%2...CNail%2CBehold

Looking at the hand, looking at the nail ...?

[sky]

Originally Posted by inavalan

I just googled and I read that the first character is actually "hand", not "ox" ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ox%2...CNail%2CBehold

Looking at the hand, looking at the nail ...?

Behold my hands and look where the nails were...

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Literal meaning of each letter:
Ox,Behold,Nail,Behold

P.S. These literal meanings are probably abbreviated and there are probably more in-depth versions.

You are aware that Paleo Hebrew is simply the Phoenician alphabet appropriated by the ancient Jews when they began to write because they needed an alphabet that would fulfill the single purpose of replicating the sounds of the spoken language?

Originally Posted by inavalan

I just googled and I read that the first character is actually "hand", not "ox" ...https://www.google.com/search?q=Ox%2...CNail%2CBeholdLooking at the hand, looking at the nail ...?

Ha,
I forgot about the Google machine.
I pulled my info from a piece of paper I copied off a wonky website way back in the days of dial-up and AOL.
But I still enjoy pulling it out and changing my perspective.


P.S. Aw yeah, I see my paper has hand also.Must have just been operator error.

Originally Posted by RabbiO

You are aware that Paleo Hebrew is simply the Phoenician alphabet appropriated by the ancient Jews when they began to write because they needed an alphabet that would fulfill the single purpose of replicating the sounds of the spoken language?

I know next to nothing of Phoenicians or where the Paleo Hebrew language came from.
I only know a little about any language but that seems to describe how things are spread and adopted.
It still blows my mind how interesting the Hebrew language is.
Only knowing the English language I find it fascinating to try and have a better understanding of a
time and place and original language scripture was written from,to gain a different perspective.

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

I know next to nothing of Phoenicians or where the Paleo Hebrew language came from..

Paleo Hebrew is not a language. It is simply an alphabet.

Originally Posted by RabbiO

Paleo Hebrew is not a language. It is simply an alphabet.

Thanks.
Yes, I see my error.
So the ancient Paleo Hebrew script/alphabet the Hebrew's used was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
So the modern Hebrew script/alphabet , did that come from somewhere else or did the Hebrew's create it?

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Literal meaning of each letter:
Ox,Behold,Nail,Behold


P.S. These literal meanings are probably abbreviated and there are probably more in-depth versions.

'Literal meaning' is not the same as a transliteration.

Let me explain.

In Thai, Free is written as ฟรี.

If you go to see how the word is pronounced, it sounds almost like our word for 'free'. The reason for this, is that Thai did not have a word for 'free' so they used their alphabet to come up with a word that sounded like our word for 'free'!

Back to ฟรี.

ฟ means teeth and makes the sound "f".
The Thai letter ร means boat and makes the sound "r" (transliterates into our language as).

The character sitting above ร is a vowel that sounds like 'ee'.

When you put these sounds together, ฟรี sounds to us like 'free'.

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Thanks.
Yes, I see my error.
So the ancient Paleo Hebrew script/alphabet the Hebrew's used was borrowed from the Phoenicians.

So the modern Hebrew script/alphabet , did that come from somewhere else or did the Hebrew's create it?

They borrowed another alphabet.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by BigJohn

EXCERT


One of the most controversial scriptures found in the Bible is Exodus 6:3. In the King James Bible it reads:

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

When I first read this, I believed for a long time that the Tetragrammaton, as reflective in this verse by the usage of the word Jehovah, had not been used till the Exodus.