Template:Hebrew meaning
Letters with meanings
Over 700 years after Jesus was proclaimed king in Judea someone began to create the Masoretic version of the Old Testament with vowel points and cantillation marks.
Hebrew is said to be a “poor” language because it has a relatively small number of words compared to other languages (85,000[1] vs. 600,000 in English[2]).
Because of this, many words must necessarily have more than one meaning and you must translate a word according to the context in which it occurs. Fortunately, Hebrew letters represent meanings.
To add a letter or delete it or just change it's location actually alters the meaning and in essence creates a new unaccounted word meaning.
A Chinese “logograph” or "ideogram", is a single grapheme which represents a base word, which is a meaningful unit of language. While Chinese characters are often thought of as overly complex, in fact they are all derived from several hundred simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical. Combinations of these ideographs are used to form more words and ideas.
This combining of ideas with symbols actually effects our thinking.
One consequence of this form of writing is that the pronunciation of the language is not tied to letters. The sound of the words may change drastically over a period of time.
Japanese and Chinese writing may be comprehensible to both cultures, but their spoken language bears little or no commonality.
Symbols of Meaning
Scriptural Hebrew dates back to Abrahamand has some connection or origin with Sandskrit. As Moses used it we can see that it was set down as a written language. It should not be confused with what has been called “Paleo-Hebrew” which some will say is nor Hebrew at all, but a Hamitic language of the Canaanites. Then there is the Ashkenazic Hebrew, Ladino Hebrew, and Arabic Hebrew. "Words are the symbols of ideas" but in Hebrew the letters are also symbols of both the meaning and metaphor.
Hebrew uses only a few dozen basic symbols which construct three letter base words. Meanings may become more complex or changed by adding different letters or placing them in different orders within the base word.
We must always realize that flesh and blood, letters and symbols cannot reveal the truth of God’s kingdom. It is Revelation of the divine spark that comes from God that will truly reveal His name.
Knowing God is about knowing Him in our hearts and minds because we let him in there. He makes a connection in us between realms of existence. Right now we have fallen to this realm of flesh and things.
Things like language and letters and forms are of the world. The Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed has made that connection for us and sends a spirit of that connection which we must receive into the darkness so that there is light.
- ↑ The academy of the Hebrew language estimates 45,000 words, in addition to 30,000-35,000 word compositions (school in Hebrew is book-house בית-ספר, for example), which totals the estimate in 75,000-80,000 meaningful expressions of either words or word compositions.
- ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary records about 600,000. The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989, contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries.