Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
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<strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong> <strong>Language</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Alphabet</strong><br />
staff <strong>and</strong> is representative of authority as well as a yoke 39 .<br />
A team of oxen yoked together pulled a cart or plow. To<br />
train the younger oxen, an older more experienced ox as<br />
the leader was yoked to the younger. The Hebraic<br />
meaning of la / al is a "powerful leader". The <strong>Ancient</strong><br />
<strong>Hebrew</strong>s saw themselves yoked to God who taught them<br />
how to walk a proper life.<br />
Creator<br />
The second word, Creator, is the <strong>Hebrew</strong> word hnq qaneh<br />
derived from the Parent Root !q / qen meaning a nest. The<br />
pictographs for this word are . The first pictograph is<br />
the sun at the horizon where light is gathered. The<br />
mnemonic meaning of this letter is a gathering together.<br />
The second picture is a seed. The combining these letters<br />
mean a "gathering together for the seeds". Before the bird<br />
lays her eggs she gathers material together to build a nest.<br />
The Child Root / hnq has the meaning of acquiring<br />
the materials for the nest. The <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong>s saw God<br />
as a bird 40 that builds a nest, the heavens <strong>and</strong> the l<strong>and</strong>, for<br />
his children.<br />
The Hebraic underst<strong>and</strong>ing of this verse is that God<br />
brought together the heavens <strong>and</strong> the earth as the nest for<br />
his children he could nurture <strong>and</strong> care for them as a<br />
39 Isaiah 9.4, through <strong>Hebrew</strong> parallelism, describes the yoke as a<br />
"staff on the shoulders". The wooden staff used by the shepherd to<br />
guide the sheep toward a location. The yoke, also made of wood, was<br />
also used to guide the oxen toward a location. Both the shepherd's<br />
staff <strong>and</strong> the yoke perform the same function.<br />
40 See Deuteronomy 32.9-12<br />
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