Recently a friend asked me about the YHWH yud hey vav hey
Some translate as Yaweh.
Seen as Jehovah in Bible and is translated as Lord.
He asked me about the meaning of the name.
He asked if it is a picture of Jesus?
It is more than just He was He is and Is to come.
The actual Hebrew letters have meanings.
Hey means behold.
Yud means hand.
Vav means nail.
The name of God can be found in The Priestly Blessing, (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. Birkat Kohanim), also known in Hebrew as Nesiat Kapayim, (lit. Raising of the Hands)
It is based on a scriptural verse: "They shall place My name upon the children of Israel, and I Myself shall bless them."[2] It consists of the following Biblical verses (Numbers 6:24–26):
יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה, וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ
("Yivorekhekhaw Adonai v'yishm'rekhaw ...)
May the LORD make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you -
יָאֵר יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וִיחֻנֶּךָּ
("Yo'ayr Adonai pawnawv aylekhaw vikhoonekhaw ...)
May the LORD lift up His face unto you and give you peace -
יִשָּׂא יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם
("Yisaw Adonai pawnav aylekhaw v'yasaym l'khaw shalom.")
These hands, as in the en:Priestly Blessing, are divided into twenty-eight sections, each containing a Hebrew letter. Twenty-eight, in Hebrew numbers, spells the word Koach = strength. At the bottom of the hand, the two letters on each hand combine to form יהוה, the name of God.
The position of each hand in this image forms the Hebrew letter shin ( ש ), the first letter in en:Shaddai ( שדי ), the name of God that refers to Him as a protector.
There are other meanings for the letters, but the ones presented here today are traced back to Ancient pictographic Hebrew.
Nail, tent peg, add, hook, to secure, connect, Messiah for “vav.”
Look, Behold, The, Reveal, breath, man for “hey”.
Arm, hand, work, thrust, deed, make, throw, worship for “yud”,
A “yud” looks like an arm and hand, while a “vav” looks like a nail with an open tob like a small y, and the hey looks like a man with his hands raised.
Getting back to my friend’s question:
Could we see this as a picture of Jesus?
It certainly looks like one.
"Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail" - is a doctrine imposed upon The Tetragrammaton in search of identifying Jesus where no such identificaion exists.
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Hebrew letters "yodh, he, waw, he" of Moses' day looked like this:
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...and because Hebrew at that time was "pictorial" - each letter could carry different meanings (just as the writer above lists).
So - the four ancient letters of The Tetragrammaton (yodh, he, waw, he) COULD be the "name" - "Throw" - "Breath" - "Tent-Peg" - "Look" - which obviously doesn't serve the agenda of the Trinitarian doctrine being used to come up with "Behold Nail, Behold Hand" which seeks to prove Jesus is represented where he isn't in The Tetragrammaton!!
Remember that Jesus himself always directed worship to _his God_ and Father (compare Mt 4:10, referencing Deut 6:13 with the words "It is written...) where the Tetragrammaton יְהוָ֧ה (Yahweh) aopears) plus referring to his Father as "...the only true God" (Jn 17:3), something he never laid claim to, and that he was returning to _his_ God and Father and his gathered _apostles'_ God and Father as he announced to them before his ascended (Jn 20:17).
In summation - trying to extract an identification of Jesus from The Tetragrammaton is the work of a man-made doctrine unknown to the Hebrews and Christians prior to The Coucil of Nicea designed to divert the absolute and exclusive worship of God the Father away from Him by maintaining the Son He sent and taught everything he was to do and say is co-equal and co-eternal with _his God_ and father and therefore for him to be worshipped as is _his God_ and father !! It's a false doctrine. Free yourself from it.
Submitted with respect
(there are several typos I didn't catch before entering that I cannot correct because there is no "EDIT" feature offered - so please overlook - and thanks !! :)
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