The Ancient Hebrew Language and Alephbet
Chapter Five



Chapter 5 - Practical Biblical Application


    The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with the tools and resources to read the Bible with a Hebraic understanding and see the text through the eyes of the ancient Hebrew who wrote it.

    Let us begin by looking at the Hebrew word /q.n/qen 46 meaning "nest" as found in D'variym47 32.11;

...like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young.

    The first letter of this parent root is a /q/quph. The original picture for this word is and is a picture of a setting sun and has the meaning of "drawing together" as the light draws toward the sun when it sets. The second letter is a /n/nun. As detailed earlier, the ancient form of this letter is , a seed or offspring. The Hebrew parent root / /q.n/qen is seen by the ancient Hebrews as "the drawing together48 [of materials] for the seeds (or eggs)".

    A child root derived from the parent root /q.n/qen is /q.n.h/qanah, usually translated as "create" or "creator" as in Bereshiyt 14.19;

...and he blessed Abram, saying "blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth".

    The dictionary49 defines "create" as "to cause to exist; bring into being". This definition is an abstract idea foreign to the ancient Hebrew who saw God as a bird gathering materials to build a nest (the earth) for his chicks (his children).

    A second child root derived from the parent is /q.n.a/qana' usually translated as "jealous" as in Shemot 34.1450 ;

Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    The dictionary51 defines jealous as "fearful or wary of being supplanted, esp. apprehensive of the loss of another's affection". This negative idea of jealousy is not reflective of God's character. When the word is understood in its proper Hebraic setting we see that God is like a bird that guards and protects his chicks in the nest from the enemy.

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