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-352425-85725The Ten Commandments?How Many? We find the “The Ten Commandments” written to us in Exodus Chapter 20 and Deuteronomy Chapter 20. We also find reference to “The Ten Commandments” in Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and 10:4. It is important to understand the primary Hebrew word for commandment is mitzvah (Strong’s H4687). The word mitzvah is found nearly 200 times in the scriptures and is almost always translated as commandment. This is the word used when we think/speak of an instruction about what we should or should not do. If you do a word study with your Strong’s Concordance you will find the word translated as words in Exodus 20:1 and translated as commandments in Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and 10:4 is Strongs’s #H1697 – devar. Devar is defined by Strongs as: a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing;. Take note: it is not a commandment according to Strong’s. Devar conveys the meaning of a matter/issue in the sense of a young married couple deciding on where to live. In other words, they have an issue/matter to decide. The word devar in and of itself is not good, bad, right or wrong, but just a thing/matter/issue to consider and act upon or in regard to and in the matter (no pun intended) of the Ten Commandments/Matters is a matter/issue for us to consider and act upon each and every day. The Strong’s definition is correct, but is only a starting point, it does not give us the full understanding/meaning of the word. Remember, we are seeking a deeper understanding of the scriptures, that is a Hebraic/Hebrew Roots perspective. It is from the Ancient Pictographic Hebrew that the original/underlying meaning is seen. The word devar is spelled ??????. Reading right to left is Dalet, Bet, Resh (Hebrew is read right to left). If you look at a Hebrew manuscript or an Interlinear Bible you will see that the first letter of the Bible (in the first word in Genesis 1:1) is the letter Bet (the first letter in the Hebrew below, going left to right) and can be seen below: ??????????? ?????? ???????? ??? ??????????? ????? ?????????Let’s take the letter Bet back to its “Hebrew Roots”.54864004171950033242252667000 In modern Hebrew the letter Bet is written like this: . However, modern Hebrew is not how Hebrew was originally written. Hebrew has gone through several changes over time. Prior to today’s modern Hebrew, the letter Bet was written in what is called the Late Hebrew as .320040019939000 Prior to the “Late Hebrew” the Bet was written as in Paleo Hebrew. 37909501651000 And before the Paleo Hebrew, the letter Bet was written as in the early or Pictographic Hebrew. This earliest writing or picture of the letter Bet is a picture of a floor plan of a house, or more precisely, a tent. It just so happens that the Hebrew word for house is ?????? and is pronounced as “beyt” or “bet”. So, we see that the Bible starts with a House. That is, the creation account is the story of building a house. This house is YHVH’s house or the House of God (Bethel in English, ??????? or beyt el in Hebrew).13906503943350036195039433500 Of course, it is not only the letter Bet that was written as a picture in the early Hebrew, all the other Hebrew letters were as well. Two more letters that are very relevant to our study are the Dalet and the Resh .723900300355 The Dalet is a picture of a door, or more precisely a tent door flap, just like the door flap on your tent you camped out in this summer. This letter can convey several meanings such as movement (a tent door flap moves back and forth as you enter or exit the tent), hang, dangle, entrance, and can also mean weak or poor as a person that walks around with their head hanging down. 2714625273685002379980312420004772025844550046196258445500 An example of a word using the Dalet is: ????, this would be written as I in Paleo Hebrew and in the Pictographic Hebrew would be . Now, before you get frustrated with the above, lets put the three forms of the word in a chart:4495800853440000410527585534502686050844867524765008439150 ???? Modern Hebrew Paleo Hebrew Early/Pictographic Hebrew The point of looking at these letters in this way is to actually see the Hebrew Language and even the individual letters convey a meaning to us. We cannot see this in our English translations, or in the modern Hebrew writing/language/manuscripts.5286375148590000 So now, back to our new word above. We have introduced a new letter and that is the second letter in the word above (remember Hebrew is read right to left). It is the letter Mem . The letter Mem is a picture of waves on the water. Some of the meanings of this letter are liquid, water, chaos, sea, mighty and massive, from the size of the sea and chaos from the storms of the sea. So, if we put the letter Dalet (movement) and Mem (liquid) together to form a word we get the word for the back and forth movement of a liquid and the word is Blood or in Hebrew it is Dam as in A-dam or Adam.30670503409950 The last letter for us to look at is the letter Resh . The letter Resh is a picture of a man’s head and would be written as follows:249555039770054505325145415390525135890 Modern Hebrew Paleo Hebrew Pictographic Hebrew This letter can convey the meaning of: head, beginning, chief (as in hierarchy or authority), top, man, among others. An example of a word using/showing the meaning of the letter Resh is ???, Strong’s H7227. The word is rav and translated into English as: many, great, captain, and mighty among other words. The Strong’s definition includes; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality), also: captain, elder, exceedingly, great(-ly, man, one), master, mighty, The real/original meaning of this word is derived from the Resh – (captain, abundant rank, mighty) and the Bet- (house). In other words, it means the Authority of the House.Now lets go back to our word, Devar (as in the Ten Words, not commandments) and look at this word in its Hebrew forms/writing:All of the following are the same word and all are spelled (right to left) Dalet, Bet, Resh44481757810546577251066800048768006858028575004953000266700030480249555020955 ?????? Modern Hebrew Paleo Hebrew Early Hebrew So, by looking at the Early/Pictographic Hebrew we can see the following:Dalet = Door or entranceBet = HouseResh = Chief, captain, mighty The three letters combined give the foundational meaning of: The entrance to the house of the authority/captain/or mighty one.Did you see that!!?Do you see what “The Ten Commandments” really are? They are the entrance, the door to enter The House Of God, The House the Bible is written about. Don’t be misled into thinking the “Ten Commandments” are just a list of do’s and do not’s. There are commandments contained in the “Ten Words/Devarim” and if you count them you will find more than ten. “The Ten Commandments” are actually “The Ten Matters” and are the set of issues/matters that are of the most importance to the Creator and therefore to you. Until someone with more authority than the Creator comes along to change the way to enter His house, let us not try to figure out a different way to enter His house, nor listen to someone that tries to tell us this door is an old door that was for other people and now has now been closed and now we enter His house by some other entry way. No, let us simply abide by His instructions and enter into His house in the manner He says to enter it. Let us not be as the wedding guest in Matthew 22:9-14Les Collinsworth,Modern HebrewThe Scattered 153* This article was taken from our February, 2018 Newsletter. It is separated out and included here with our other articles because we feel the material is important and realize that everyone may not receive and/or read the newsletter.** All of the Paleo and Pictographic Hebrew Letters are from the Ancient Hebrew Research Center, ................
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