The way I describe this to people is that the words attached to Hebrew letters are a bit like those attached to letters in the NATO alphabet - _only_ the beginning sound is relevant, the meaning of the word never is. "NATO" in the NATO alphabet is November Alfa Tango Oscar, but none of those words or concepts have anything whatsoever to do with NATO.
Attributing the phonetic alphabet to NATO completely threw me, given that it predates NATO and doesn't depend on NATO involvement. The British police and the RSGB use it, and neither organization has anything to do with NATO, good grief
@@creamwobbly NATO was pretty involved in its creation, but yes arguably "ICAO alphabet" would be more accurate. However for better or worse, NATO alphabet is the name I've encountered most often so that's what I called it!
Tuna are deep-water fish, and the deep waters are associated with Leviathan, the chaos dragon of pre-Israelite Canaanite religion. QED, tuna are creatures of the Leviathan, and are therefore evil/chaos creatures. You’re welcome.
Or like hieroglyphs, which worked at least vaguely similarly, and which are a source for the Hebrew letters similar to how Chinese is the source for the Korean syllabic script. But in any case, they lost the original meaning in the derivation process - unlike the case of Japanese, where they kept a lot of the original meanings.
It's honestly not that unbelievable given the origin of the semitic alphabet, but again, many kabbalic or other Jewish/Christian traditions that use the structure of words to read spiritual meaning into them are doing the same thing they often do with scripture: reading meaning into text that the original authors never intended.
@@KaiHenningsen kinda, but I was thinking more of the radical symbols and compound words in Chinese specifically. Like the glyph for forest is three trees as a single glyph or 冰 (bing - ice) containing the symbol 水 meaning water. In Chinese it’s perfectly reasonable to recognize 水 and assume that the word or phrase has something to do with water. Korean doesn’t use Chinese symbols in hangul, the sometimes mix hangul with the older system of hanja but that’s slowly being replaced.
@@lnsflare1 So, you want me to get started? Have you not been following along? It is Seven Doves, or Seven Dodo's underfoot of Pillar 18 of Gobekli Tepe, or the Seven Panthers of Lascaux cave art. I've done a lot of research and practically every omnipotent is from there. You know why? Because that is the radiant of our most recent visitor The Taurid Meteor Stream.
“To make it interesting” - so much this. It’s a 2000+ year old source text that has been studied, dissected, recapitulated, reorganized, debated, annotated, abridged, retranslated and cannoned in hundreds of languages and cultures. Of course there are always new historical and linguistic discoveries but apologetics has nearly wrung the context and historical meaning out of the old girl, always searching for some wild new interpretation that will drive clicks or tithes and offerings.
Not to make it more interesting: this is where I disagree with Dan. They are trying to make the bible more *significant* because it has basically lost most of its relevance to us today.
@KarmaMechanic613 No, more significant. Pseudo-significant. They are injecting an artificial significance into scripture in order to prop up the feebleness of bible-based theology.
@@KarmaMechanic613what other motivation do you think fits? Lying about religious texts to make them fit your narrative is kind of what this channel is here to discuss, but there are other reasons.
@BigBri550 I will cast my jaded dice and add this: New social media and its outlets have opened rich avenues of revenue clicks for competing streamers and youtubers looking to build a lucrative pool of eyeballs and subs. Constantly tossing out half-truths, intentional misreadings, arguments from incredulity, appeals to ignorance, et. al. becomes a full-time vocation in a competitive market of "silo-thinking."
Just like WTF doesn’t *mean* “a strong alcoholic beverage makes you dance in one style and then another” (whisky tango foxtrot) we just use words to represent letters. Pictographs->Letters is the other way around, but the concept is there
There's an analogy here to Operational Medicine: many patients do some in-depth research then want to advise a surgeon or practitioner on a "better" therapeutic path. While on an extremely rare moon an eager patient might toss out a possible novel idea, the overwhelming cases require the interdisciplinary, multi-level understanding forged from almost a decade of rigorous learning and practice/collaboration, i.e., a trained, educated medical doctor. So yea, earning your Ph.D. and the pursuant intensive language training demands the kind of rigor you just can't reproduce from that gaming chair at home!
This kind of thing is so helpful. Dan, if you can start breaking down Hebrew into bite sized portions for those of us attempting to learn our on own that would be super helpful. Thanks so much.
Apparently in archery one commits a synn by missing the target. When I was into archery missing an easy shot was accompanied by a lot of swearing. Maybe that's when the synning occures. 😡
2:30 my takeaway: the Semitic word for house “BAIT” is practically identical in pronunciation and spelling to “baita” which is the name of the traditional wooden houses in the Italian Alps. Can’t be a coincidence. Probably same ancient Indo-european root? Very curious.😊
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family not the Indo-European language family. That being said, it's possibly a loan-word.
Yeah but in english translations of the bible god say 'I am'. Do you realise that 'I' is phonetically the same as a physical 'eye'. Also the letter 'A' is usually taught to children by association with the word 'Apple' and the letter 'm' by association with 'mum'... so 'I am' in it's deepest, most spiritual sense means 'to bear witness to the apple of the mother' or the apple that eve (the mother of all) ate of! Think about it people, it obvious!!!
@3:50, I think the reason they assocuate "Nun" with multiplying is because in Aramaic it means "fish", and in the Bible fish are seen as a sign of fertility (as in Genesis 48:16, especially in Rabbinic interpretation). So Rabbinic tradition sees any mention of the word "Nun" to do with increase or fertility. Doesn't make it less inaccurate, but does mean the spurious word associations don't come out of nowhere.
The most interesting from a sociological and/or historical point of view is the existence of a Christian movement which proposes to teach biblical Hebrew through ideological glasses... If someone wants to learn Hebrew, I strongly advise researching who and how teaches this language.
This does make me more interested in the potential classification of "sin" in regards to the original Hebrew texts. The church certainly on the face of it makes it sound like all sin is "equal" but they seem to arbitrarily deem some sin as worse than others in practice.
In the Hebrew Bible different types of actions have different punishments prescribed and different methods of expiation. It’s worth noting that sins ranged from big stuff like murder to things like not properly wearing tassels on your clothes. Some sins were punishable by death: murder, of course, but also things like lighting a fire on the Sabbath but other sins could be expiated by sacrifice. It’s also worth noting that sins were almost entirely defined as practical violations of the law, there were relatively few “belief” related sins in the Hebrew Bible; there are a lot of ethical laws, however, and violating those would definitely be considered sinful.
All I'm getting is that there were multiple different Hebrew Words, probably with different shades of meaning and connotations, that all got smushed into one word, oversimplifying, and dumbing stuff down is never a good sign
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Since Latin characters come from the same Egyptian hieroglyphics as Hebrew, you can do this same spurious etymology with random English words. For example, the characters in "RU-vid" are hook-eye-hook-mark-hook-house-window. As long as we're free to make up whatever interpretations we want, we can fabricate a meaning like "something that keeps the eye hooked to characters on a screen in your house".
The “TOTALLY MIND BLOWING” coincidences and hidden meanings people want to see to prove themselves right and/or clever are second only to overly-cute folk etymologies on my list of things that just irritate me to no end.
Dan's brain contains an almost infinite amount of knowledge about language, the bible and religion. I also imagine that his T-shirt collection would need a warehouse to house them.
Is the moral of the creator's story "Don't watch too much baseball, and never, ever look at hot girls!"? Knowing OrthoBOX Christianity, I'll humor myself with that assumption.
Nahash is the Hebrew for "Snake"? That blew my mind considering from what I learned, Aaron's Staff, the one with the Bronze Snake on top of it was named "Nehushtan" which sounds rather similar. Also if Im not mistaken the Nehushtan Staff bears striking resemblance to the Caduceus as well.
1john 3:4-6 Whosoever committeth sin trasgresseth also the law: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
It would be a little like if we used the images we associate with each letter in grade school as a script. I. E. An apple instead of A, a ball for B, a cat for C, a dog for D, etc. A word spelled that way wouldn't have its meaning changed by the images used.
I might be reading a bit too much into what you said at 0:23 but are you suggesting that the concept of sin as it is commonly understood today is a post-Biblical innovation?
"Sin" is a word that exists exclusively in English (and at most, other languages with similar roots or that have borrowed the word) and never existed in the Hebrew or Greek that the Bible was written in. Dan is saying the word "sin" is used to describe multiple Hebrew words with different meanings and therefore loses some of the nuance of the original text.
The actual commandments are more important than Hebrew. After the Torah was translated into Greek as the Septuagint, it is permitted to learn Torah in one's own language from a proper translation.
I have heard there is no historical evidence of the exodus from Egypt (Moses version). The fact that the Jewish script evolved from hieroglyphs suggests there was a significant connection between the two communities. I am curious about the historical consensus.
They were next door neighbors and Egypt was the largest power in the world, while the peoples living in the Levant were fairly small city states and nomads, there was tons of trade and heavy influence of the Egyptians on the area and there was a several hundred year period where Egypt actually controlled the area and its likely that the power vacuum left by their departure from the area is what led to the consolidation of power of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel and all the others mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
The evolution of Egyptian to Hebrew doesn’t help the case for the Exodus much because it very well could have been other Semitic peoples which then intermingled which then later intermingled with a group which became the Israelites. I don’t know of any scholars who argue the evolution of Egyptian to Hebrew is evidence for an Exodus. At the same time, there is lots of evidence for a historical Exodus. I think the evidence is too ambiguous to prove it happened exactly like it was described, though. There are other ways to explain the evidence like a very small group coming out of Egypt and no historical Moses. You can check out Inspiring Philosophy’s historical exodus series who cites a number of scholars on the topic if you are interested.
And I feel I should point out that the word 'sin'... has a history completely independent of Christianity and Judaism. Rooted in ancient European languages circa 3000bce. And it's meaning is simply 'guilt' And this is true for other notions in western culture like 'Bless' (cleanse with blood) and 'holy' (Whole/unified/complete).
Interesting that Christians love to talk of many different notions of love but only one notion of sin. Also fun to watch the Confident White Guy Making Stuff Up and the Confident White Guy Acting Amazed In Response.
The creator you're referring to sounds like someone who would make his mistakes accidentally on purpose, ignoring actual facts because they get in the way of his sh-, um the stuff he's saying. :-)
Nevertheless, some of the connections these people have drawn (jeff benner comes to mind) are fun coincidences AND they can serve to keep people interested in the language long enough to learn the aleph bet
The script. Just like the English script descended from the Roman (or Latin) script, but English has nothing at all to do with Latin except for a few loan words.
Dan, if you can correct them so well then why not ALSO give us the answer. Ive noticed that you seem to correct but never give a real answer following your correction, which isnt helping anyone here
Whoa, whoa there Danny boy, you are getting ahead of the game, there. First off the script is protosinaitic. What is protosiniatic? It’s essentially a vernacular script used by shopkeepers and tradesmen. Is it a phonetic script? Essentially but it does not need to be. As we learn from the Akkadian, a cuneiform character could either represent a sound or a word. The cuneiform for certain gods sounded often nothing like what the characters would present. The second problem here is that the Egyptian hieroglyphs were already being used phonetically in the cortisan texts. The function of protosiniatic was to make the hieroglyphic language, which was used for monumental inscriptions and courtly materials, easier to write on a variety of media (like papyrus or shop materials) and by people who were not skilled craftsmen for the court. To give an idea of what is going on here, we need to use our imaginations. 4500 years ago the Sumerians (well the Marians, mixtures of Mar.tu and Sumer) end up on the coast of Syria. Through a set of misadventures 400 years later the Sumer II/Ur III began a settlement colonization through the Levant, and by 19th century BCE Amorites traders had outposts in the Eastern Delta. This was not uncommon, people had trading quarters and outposts among other peoples. The kuraAraxes (S. Protoindoeuropeans) culture had a colony on the Galilee, Uruk traded with Tell Shem Shara. People wanted to trade. We can look at the trading Empire of Ur III as projecting itself with force, depositing lucrative trading colonies, which attracted the favor of local people, and then it could contract. Which is good because UrIII was replaced with the Ilan/Larsa period of dominance. Ur retained however major colonies at Haran. Why did the Hyksos grow in power. . . .trade. And where were they trading through? Gaza. So Israel Finklestein thinks that protosinaitic was invented in Gaza. It was probably used as a transitionary script for people familiar in trade with cuneiform. I think the script comes from artisans in the upper kingdom, but it doesn’t matter, it quickly found its way to Gaza where along the coast it was popular and appears to have spread into Arabia. For the audience Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. Most appear to be alphabetic in nature (several are clearly aleph-forms) but others fit a more hieroglyphic role. This is best described as a mixed stylistic approach. These date to 1850BCE to 16th century BCE so these represents changing styles with respect to time. The Earliest inscriptions were not protosinaitic, these tended to dominate later. Wadi el-Hol inscriptions. Take on a form more consistent with alephbeth script. Date from approx 1850 BCE. Something to think about here while we are coming up with reasons to denigrate Gaza’s people, that by the DNA are evidently a unique ethnicity. The people that Israel is trying to extinguish may have invented the alphabet form that we, Greeks, Aramaics, Hebrew, even Arabic used to write in. Since the 1920s the Zionist have been trying to paint the Palestinians as second class people. Something the history of the region does not bear out upon. The Gaza population is not of Greek or Egyptian origin, though certainly both have contributed, they might represent the Hyksos that settled in the region rather than in Avaros. But more than likely these people represent the early expansion of Afroasiatic and part of the oldest Neolithic pastoral societies on Earth. This is suspected because Ovid populations domesticated in the Levant rapidly appeared along the coast of the southern Mediterranean and made their way to Iberia.
God gave Adam and Eve one prohibition, saying, But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:17). They did eat thereof, and Romans 5:12 speaks of it: Whereof, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. To rescue us sinners from sin and death, God sent mankind a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son. Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man (yet without sin--Hebrews 4:15) as he was born of a virgin but conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, bore mankind's sin in his own body upon the tree and was raised from the dead the third day, all in accordance with the scriptures, that we might receive the forgiveness of sins through faith in him (see 1 John 4:14, Matthew 1:18-25, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4). For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23). Apart from faith in Jesus Christ, men perish, suffering God's wrath (see Luke 16:19-31, Revelation 20:14). It is not God's will that any perish, but that all come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9).
@@sdlorah6450 Do you honestly think that you are helping or hurting your cause by trying to witness to viewers of this channel? Because I'll lay it out for you nice and clear. Your tactic is NOT effective, at all, and your tone-deaf proselytizing does more to turn folks away than you probably realize. If that is your goal, congratulations. If not, change your approach.
@@sdlorah6450 I don't think it is "harsh." I'm telling you that your approach is ineffective, lazy, and laughably insulting. You can meet people where they are at, with sincerity, honesty, empathy and humility, or you can continue to copy-paste passages and think you are doing "the lord's work". The choice is yours, but I assure you, what you are doing now is only feeding your own ego and turning people away. Consider it a challenge to do better.
@@funkatron101 People read and heed written warnings every day about many things; much harm is prevented in the process. The gospel goes out every day in many ways--broadcasts, through service, programs, literature, Bible distribution, social media, etc., and thank God it does.
@@danjohnston9037 Dan is very big on how a word was used. Why aren’t you using his philosophy on that then? Note: I just looked up the origins are scapegoat. I was not using it in that terminology. lol
@@infiniti28160 Incorrect. Copy-paste: "The word mortgage comes from the Old French word “morgage”, which directly translates to “dead pledge”. (The prefix of the word, “mort”, means dead, while the suffix, “gage”, means pledge.) Although the word sounds a bit morbid, there is a reason for it! "Between 1628 and 1644, Sir Edward Coke published a four-part series of legal treatises called The Institutes of Lawes of England. Seen as a foundational document of common law, this writing has been cited in 70 different cases decided by The Supreme Court of the United States, including the landmark case of Roe v. Wade. Referencing mortgage, Coke said, “And it seemeth, that the cause why it is called mortgage is, for that it is doubtful whether the feoffor will pay at the day limited such sum or not: and if he doth not pay, then the land which is put in pledge upon condition for the payment of the money, is taken from him for ever, and so dead to him upon condition. And if he doth pay the money, then the pledge is dead as to the tenant.” "In other words, a mortgage deal is finished (or “dead”) when either the debt is paid or the payment fails." Morgage of course arises from Latin roots as does much of Old French. But it does not mean pledging upon something dead. Never has. Never will.
What difference does it make anyway. There is nothing you will learn from the Hebrew or the Greek that will give you anymore information about the Lord Jesus Christ, salvation, Biblical history, faith, or doctrine that I can't learn reading the AV. In fact, every one of you that has been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ will one day come to the realization that the AV is superior to every text but until then you will continue to rob yourself of truth that will only be found in the AV.
