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from what I know, the Hebrew language is very different from ours (american). They looked at things as verbs, not nouns. For instance (light example), what we call a door, they would have called a swinger. But wait, it gets better. It was either Male, or Female. Can you guess how they would have detirmened it's gender? You guessed it... Does it swing IN, or does it swing OUT.
When words were formed, they were formed by the idea of what a letter represented. Today, the letter T holds virtually no meaning other than maybe it's place in the alphabet. In the ancient Hebrew language, a word was formed by the combining of meanings derived from the letters. It's actually kind of neat how this works! Anyway, enough of my boring you all. Check this out!
From http://www.biblicalbabyname.com
DAVID is from the Hebrew, meaning BELOVED (Kolatch, Alfred J. 1984. The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names. Middle Village: Jonathan David. 65).
Variant spelling – DAVYD - DOVID
Biblical name – David, son of Jesse, was tending sheep when he was called to be anointed by Samuel to be the second king of Israel succeeding Saul to the throne (1 Samuel 17: 12).
The letters featured in this piece are DALET VAV DALET. Taken together, and reading from right to left, they spell DAVID.
Each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a special meaning and a story to tell. Here a few brief ones about the letters on this painting.
DALET is the 4th letter of the alphabet, has a numerical value of 4, means DOOR and makes a sound like the D in Delight. The DALET has the shape of an open door.
The conjunction of the two letters GIMEL and DALET indicates issuing forth…, GIMEL giving and DALET receiving (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:244b).
VAV is the 6th letter, has a numerical value of 6, and is constructed of a single vertical line. VAV means HOOK and makes a sound like the V in Victory. When used as a vowel, VAV can sound like a long `o’ or a long `u.’ Translated it means AND. It is the GREAT CONNECTOR. VAV appears in the Four Letter name of God.
The first word in Torah is Bereshit. It means IN A BEGINNING. If you divide BERESHIT into BARA and SHEET, it means HE CREATED SIX (sheet is 6 in Aramaic). Six what? The 6 days in which creation was completed? The 6 Sephirot represented by the VAV - HESED, GEVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD, YESOD? Six directions - east, west, north south, up and down? The letter VAV itself? (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 30).
YUD is the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has a numerical value of 10. YUD makes a sound like the Y in Year. YUD is a simple point. It is the smallest letter in the alphabet and yet is frequently associated with the very large concept of EMANATION, the highest level in the Four World paradigm of Kabbalah.
YUD has the important job of being the first letter of the Tetragrammaton - YUD HEY VAV HEY. Zohar states that, in this context, the YUD represents the head of all creatures (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 3:130).
In the Sephrotic tree the YUD symbolizes WISDOM - the stage of concealment which precedes its development into a state of expansion in UNDERSTANDING. It is then contained and represented in the letter HEY. (Zalman, Shneur. 1981. "Igeret Hateshuvah." Likkutie Amarim Tanya. Brooklyn: Kihot. 359).
If you would like a great chart on the Hebrew Alphabet with all of thier root meanings and associated numercical values, check this site out
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org
When words were formed, they were formed by the idea of what a letter represented. Today, the letter T holds virtually no meaning other than maybe it's place in the alphabet. In the ancient Hebrew language, a word was formed by the combining of meanings derived from the letters. It's actually kind of neat how this works! Anyway, enough of my boring you all. Check this out!
From http://www.biblicalbabyname.com
DAVID is from the Hebrew, meaning BELOVED (Kolatch, Alfred J. 1984. The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names. Middle Village: Jonathan David. 65).
Variant spelling – DAVYD - DOVID
Biblical name – David, son of Jesse, was tending sheep when he was called to be anointed by Samuel to be the second king of Israel succeeding Saul to the throne (1 Samuel 17: 12).
The letters featured in this piece are DALET VAV DALET. Taken together, and reading from right to left, they spell DAVID.
Each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a special meaning and a story to tell. Here a few brief ones about the letters on this painting.
DALET is the 4th letter of the alphabet, has a numerical value of 4, means DOOR and makes a sound like the D in Delight. The DALET has the shape of an open door.
The conjunction of the two letters GIMEL and DALET indicates issuing forth…, GIMEL giving and DALET receiving (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:244b).
VAV is the 6th letter, has a numerical value of 6, and is constructed of a single vertical line. VAV means HOOK and makes a sound like the V in Victory. When used as a vowel, VAV can sound like a long `o’ or a long `u.’ Translated it means AND. It is the GREAT CONNECTOR. VAV appears in the Four Letter name of God.
The first word in Torah is Bereshit. It means IN A BEGINNING. If you divide BERESHIT into BARA and SHEET, it means HE CREATED SIX (sheet is 6 in Aramaic). Six what? The 6 days in which creation was completed? The 6 Sephirot represented by the VAV - HESED, GEVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD, YESOD? Six directions - east, west, north south, up and down? The letter VAV itself? (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 30).
YUD is the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has a numerical value of 10. YUD makes a sound like the Y in Year. YUD is a simple point. It is the smallest letter in the alphabet and yet is frequently associated with the very large concept of EMANATION, the highest level in the Four World paradigm of Kabbalah.
YUD has the important job of being the first letter of the Tetragrammaton - YUD HEY VAV HEY. Zohar states that, in this context, the YUD represents the head of all creatures (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 3:130).
In the Sephrotic tree the YUD symbolizes WISDOM - the stage of concealment which precedes its development into a state of expansion in UNDERSTANDING. It is then contained and represented in the letter HEY. (Zalman, Shneur. 1981. "Igeret Hateshuvah." Likkutie Amarim Tanya. Brooklyn: Kihot. 359).
If you would like a great chart on the Hebrew Alphabet with all of thier root meanings and associated numercical values, check this site out
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org
