The Hebrew word “shalom” has meaning that is deep and rich. Peace, completeness, prosperity, safety, contentment, health, blessing, and rest are all apportioned to the meaning of this remarkable word.. The ancient Hebrew spelling of “shalom” is interesting because it speaks only indirectly about these multiple meanings, but reveals something very profound about apprehending “shalom”.
Keep reading – God’s message continues.The Hebrew word “Shabbat”, what we call “the Sabbath” in English, means: “to rest”. The ancient Hebrew word picture unfolds its meaning profoundly and even “prophetically”. Shabbat is spelled “sheen”-“beit”-“tav”.
Click to continue – there’s more encouragement ahead.The modern Hebrew word for repent is ‘shoov, spelled “sheen”-“beit” (“vet”, the secondary form of “beit”) In ancient Hebrew script the letter “sheen” is represented by teeth and means “to destroy”. The “beit” in Hebrew represents a tent or a house. So a literal reading of “sheen”-“beit” would be “to destroy the house”!
Continue – this devotional isn’t done blessing you.Yesterday, we began identifying the ancient Hebrew alphabet and exploring the potential symbolic meanings of its letters. The last letter, “Tav”, as we saw, strongly resembles a cross. Today, we’re going to look at how “Tav” is spelled in ancient Hebrew. The phonetic spelling of “Tav” is Tav (T)-Vav (V). Now the ancient letter, “Vav” strongly resembled a commonly used tent peg, and then, later, a common nail. So the spelling of “Tav” contains a cross and a nail.
Click to continue – there’s more encouragement ahead.Our sojourn in America has been a series of divine appointments. When we were in Nashville, we were introduced to the ancient Hebrew alphabet; letters which were originally written much like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics in the time of Moses. In this written language it was often possible to derive the meaning of a word, because each letter was a symbol, which had its own particular meaning and significance.
Don’t stop now – more truth and grace await.As we enter into day 16 of Operation Protective Shield, we read how a “ceasefire” is proposed by different countries in order to settle the conflict. However, it’s not a ‘true’ peace they want to achieve, but just a pause in the violence. A ceasefire in the eyes of Islam is called a ‘hudna’, which is understood as a time to regroup and rearm before rising to its ultimate victory. So how does one truly achieve peace?
Click here for the rest – and let God minister to you.As we continue our studies in Ancient Hebrew word pictures, let’s look at the symbols representing the word “Father”. The letters which compose this word are “aleph” and “beit”. The “aleph” was originally illustrated as an ox head, which denotes strength, power and a leader. “Beit” is the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and its ancient symbol represents a tent and illustrates a home, dwelling, and family. So the ancient word for “Father”, “Av” literally describes the leader of the house, or the leader of the family.
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