FINDING THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HEBREW LETTER ALEPH:
First I'm going to tell you my conclusions at the beginning and then show you how I got there. I believe that the spiritual theme of the Aleph includes the following types, symbols:
GOD, the Godhead or God the Father
UNITY or ONENESS with God, made possible by Christ to those who were ELECT in Him by the "VEIL" of his body(Hbr 10:20), whose flesh was crucified so that we might enter the Holy of Holies and not DIE. This is the first "LIGHT" of our salvation, that we are saved from DEATH and joined to LIFE in Him.
ALEPH has come down to us as the letter A. In Greek it is alpha. The ancient original letter was exactly like our "A" only up-side-down. It was a picture of an ox head. One of the reasons that they know the letters are Semetic* in origin is because ONLY in the the Semitic language does the the word aleph (and also the names of all the other Hebrew letters) have meaning. Aleph is also the Hebrew WORD for OX. There are also other Hebrew words that are very similar and come from the same ROOT. Below are several links to alphabet charts showing the ancient letters and there modern dirivatives.
*Semitic - of the descendents of SHEM the son of NOAH
www.ancient-hebrew.org/5_home.html
www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm
www.phoenicia.org/pics/evolchar.gif
www.phoenicia.org/tblalpha.html
www.mazzaroth.com/Chapter...riting.htm
The Hebrew letter ALEPH also doubles for the number 1. If you would look at a Hebrew book that uses Hebrew page numbers, at the bottom of page one would be the letter ALEPH, not a 1.
After looking at several books, and charts like the ones posted above, I looked at the concordance dictionary for the ROOT and all cognate words related to the word ALEPH.
The actually idea of the root is to "associate with, or team with"........hence the OX, as it was used only in a "team". By looking at the meaning of the other words from this ROOT, sleph, you can see ideas that are based on this thought are:
STRENGTH in unity..........
SHARING, teaching, learning
STRENGTH in numbers
The governor or chief person (STRONG or AUTHORITATIVE person, and also because alpeh has a value of 1, 1st)
I then read through every word in the Concordance that began with the letter ALEPH. This particular letter has a very LARGE number of words, the one thing that stood out to me is all the important names who were FIRSTS, FATHERS, etc. in the OT that begin with this letter:
ELOHIM (God) sp. aleph/lamed/hey/yod/mem ALHYM (our FATHER)
ADAM - FATHER of man
ABRAHAM - FATHER of Israel
AARON - FATHER of all priests
The Hebrew word for FATHER is AB(V)* - ALEPH/BET
Bet is also the WORD for HOUSE, therfore, AB (father) is the STRONG one (aleph) of the HOUSE (bet)
*the Hebrew letter Bet can have 2 sounds.........B and V
We know from scripture(Gen 17:5) that Abraham means "father of many nations"
"dam" in Hebrew is the word for BLOOD (adama is RED EARTH) .........ADAM was the blood father of all men:
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth......
The first word to begin with ALEPH is GOD(Elohim)
The FIRST word in all of scripture is the word b'rashyt (in the beginning). It is spelled in Hebrew B-R-A-sh-y-t.
The FIRST action taken is the word BaRA (created), spelled in Hebrew B-R-A
The FIRST 3 actions in scripture are
1. B-ara ( He created) BRA (He-Jesus Heb 1:2, 11:3)
2. R-achph (Spirit MOVED)
3. A-mar (God SAID)
THREE times this secquence of B-R-A(bet/resh/aleph)
Son in Hebrew is B-ar
Spirit in Hebrew is R-uach
Father in Hebrew is A-v
B-R-A........Son, Spirit, Father
REVIEW OF CONCLUSIONS I eventually reached as to the SPIRITUAL MEANING of the letter ALEPH......
GOD, especially the Godhead(trinity) and God the Father
UNITY or ONENESS with God, made possible by Christ to those who were ELECT in Him, made possible by the "VEIL" of his body(Hbr 10:20), whose flesh was crucified so that we might enter the Holy of Holies and not DIE. This is the first "LIGHT" of our salvation, our STRENGTH in UNITY or ONENESS with GOD... that we are saved from DEATH and joined to LIFE in Him.
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The ROOT of the word "ALEPH" is Strong's #502..."alph"
Its basic meaing is to "ASSOCIATE WITH", especially as that association gives STRENGTH(as in a team, or strength in numbers)
Other words from this root are Strong's #503,504,505,441
NOW, this will at first seem a little confusing, but hopefully I can explain it........
The CHARACTER for the letter ALPEH means 1
The CHARACTER with a little dash above it means 1000
(if you look at one of the charts that show the number values of the letters, you will see that the letters run out after 900, so 1000 starts again with the letter aleph)
The WORD for one is "achad" (sp. aleph/chet/dalet)
The WORD for a thousand is ALEPH(or eleph) (even though the character aleph means one)
Both "achad" and "aleph" have this idea of ONENESS in UNITY
Strongs #258 - 'achad - to unify, collect (one's thoughts): go one way or another
Strongs #259 - echad - a numeral from #258; properly united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first: a , alike, alone, altogether, and.......together
Strongs #502 - aleph - to associate with
Because the CHARCATER aleph is used for both 1 and 1000 (with the mark above), and they both have this idea of ONENESS, UNITY, ASSOCIATION....they are seen as RELATED.
This shows up in several scripture verses. Here is just a sample:
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Isa 30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Isa 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation:
The principle if "FIRST MENTION" has long been recognized as a legitimate tool for scriptural interpretation.
As stated in the last post, the first use of the LETTER ALEPH is the 3rd letter of the very first word in all of scripture in the thrice repeated bet/resh/aleph ..BRA, declaring 3 times the Trinity...BAR, RUACH, AB....Son, Spirit, Father
The first word to BEGIN with aleph is ELOHIM is the Hebrew term for God. A better translation would be the ALMIGHTY.
Here's the Hebrew etemology for Elohim:
(I have shortened some of these, you can read full definitions in a Strong's Concordance of the Bible)
Stong's #
430 - ELOHIM - plural of 433.....gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used (In the plural, with the article) of the Supreme God
433 - ELOAH - (singular of Elohim) ....from 410...a diety or The Diety: - God
410 - EL - short form of 352....strength, mighty....especially the ALMIGHTY (but used also of any diety) God (god);mighty one, strong, power.
352 - AYIL - from the same as 193; properly strength, anything strong; spec a chief (politically); also a ram(from his strength; a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree: -mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
...and FINALLY we get to the ROOT of all these words:
193 - UWL - from an anused root meaning to TWIST, i.e. (by implication) be strong; the body (as being rolled together); also powerful: - mighty, strength.
The first use of aleph used as a WORD in itself is in Gen 20:16. It is here used in its meaning of "a thousand" (which is also its most common use in scripture)
Gen 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Gen 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a THOUSAND(ALEPH)[pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was reproved.
Now, I'm going to quote from John Gill's commentary on this verse. (for anyone who is not familiar with Gill, below you'll find a little blurb) I use him, because he is revered by almost everyone as one of the most thorough and knowledgable commentators there is, and he also very knowledgalbe with all the Jewish souces, which have been often helpful in this particular study of the letters.
from John Gill's commentary on this verse:
.....it seems best to refer this to the gift of the thousand pieces of silver, and read the words, "behold, this is to thee {h} a covering of the eyes"; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; for the words are a continued biting sarcasm on Sarah; as Abimelech twits her with calling Abraham her brother in the preceding clause, so in this he tells her that he had given him so much money to buy her a VEIL(covering of the eyes) with, and to supply her with veils from time to time to cover her eyes, that nobody might be tempted to lust after her, and that it might be known she was a married woman; for in these countries married women wore veils for distinction.....
In Middle Eastern society a married woman is to be "veiled" at all times. Only her HUSBAND may remove it. This is as it is with the Chruch, the bride of Christ..We are to be veiled at all times(married to Christ) and only Christ may remove that veil.
we are to be for Him only. He is also the way THROUGH the veil to the Holy of Holies. Only Christ can remove the blinders on our eyes that we may know the Father and understand spiritual things:
2Cr 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
2Cr 3:14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
Another use of the alphabet in scripture is what are called "accrostic" passages, the most well known being Psalm 119. In most Bibles it shows the heading of each section according to the letters of the alphabet. There is a section for each letter. What you CAN'T see, is that in the Hebrew, each verse of that section begins with that letter. For instance, in English the "A" section would be like this:
vs. 1. Always happy is the man who.........
vs. 2. Always happy are they that.....
vs. 3. Also, they......
vs. 4. As thou has commanded us.........
etc., etc.
Psalm 119 is not the only chapter that is arranged like this. It is just the longest and most well known. There are several others. One that you might be familiar with is the 22 verses in Proverbs 31:10-31 about the "virtuous woman". Verse 1 starts with a word that begins with an aleph (A), verse 2 with a bet, and so on, all the way through the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Lamentation 1,2,3, & 4 the same (chpt 3 has 3 verses for each letter). Psalm 112 is about a righteous man, and is alphabetically arranged every HALF verse. There are several others. More often than not, when I looked at the verses for each of the letters, they would loosely or overtly reflect what I found to be the spiritual meaning of that letter.
In the case of the chapters I mentioned in Lamentations, which are JUDGMENT on Israel, they would reflect the exact opposite..........as in the case with the ALEPH, instead of LIGHT, or STRENGTH IN UNITY and ONENESS with God, the judgment was "DARKNESS, WEAKNESS, ALONENESS", and DISASSOCIATION." (see Lam 1:1, 2:1, 4:1 and 3:1-3....these are all the "aleph" verses describing Israel's judgment.
In the case of the ALEPH verse of the virtuous woman, the word "virtuous", if you look it up in the Strongs (#242 means "STRENGTH or MIGHT".
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While working on this study, I ran across the following site:
www.mayimhayim.org/AlephBetMystery.htm
It contends that the 22 verses in the NT which contain the word "MYSTERY" the very SUBJECT of the mystery correspond to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. As I looked at these for myself when I did each of the letters, I found nearly the same conclusions. Not only do they correspond, but in the exact order in which the verses are found in the NT!
The alpeh, being symbolic of GOD, the GODHEAD, etc,.... the first verse in the NT containing the word "mystery" is Mark 4:11:And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of GOD......
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Another thing I looked at was a name given to Jesus for the meaning of each of the letters and how that related to the seven feasts. I already gave the verse for aleph in my very first post when I listed ALL of the verses. It is the verse about being "like a lamb or OX that is brought to the slaughter", which relates both to the pictoral meaning of the AELPH, an OX AND to the 1st feast of Passover.
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One of the LAST things I looked at was the gematria of the word ALEPH. For anyone that is not familiar with that term, it is the SUM of the number values of each letter that makes up a word. (like the 666 being the 'mark' of the beast) Other words which add up to the SAME gematria are believed to be spiritually connected. One would think there might be several such words, but this is not the case. Sometimes it was difficult to come up with ONE such word. It is because of the 3 letter ROOT system of the Hebrew. There just aren't that many possibilities to look for. So, to come up with the gematria of the word "ALEPH" spelled in Hebrew: aleph/lamed/pey, you add together:
the number value of aleph which is 1
the number value of lamed which is 30
and the number value of pey which is 80
1 + 30 + 80 = 111
Now, not only is 111 very suggestive of the GODHEAD in its THREE-IN-ONENESS, one of only THREE words that has the same gematria is the word "misveh" sp. mem(40)/samech(60)/vav(6)/hey(5).....40+60+5+6 = 111. It means VEIL!!!
The first time it is used is in Ex. 24:33 where Moses veiled his face after coming down from being with God.
The other two words with a gematria of 111 also have a similar meaning of something wonderful and mysterious, or something hidden or dark.
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All of these things together COULD be just coincidence....but when you see how letter after letter keeps having these same "coincidences"...........well by the time I got to the 5th letter, I was thoroghly convinced that God had intended to reveal His Son and His work of salvation even in the very letters of the words that tell the story.
That's enough for ALEPH, I'll try to start on BET Wednesday..
P.S. Please, if any of you see something else, please add to this post!! Everytime I explain this I find something else!!
in Yeshua............YY
First I'm going to tell you my conclusions at the beginning and then show you how I got there. I believe that the spiritual theme of the Aleph includes the following types, symbols:
GOD, the Godhead or God the Father
UNITY or ONENESS with God, made possible by Christ to those who were ELECT in Him by the "VEIL" of his body(Hbr 10:20), whose flesh was crucified so that we might enter the Holy of Holies and not DIE. This is the first "LIGHT" of our salvation, that we are saved from DEATH and joined to LIFE in Him.
ALEPH has come down to us as the letter A. In Greek it is alpha. The ancient original letter was exactly like our "A" only up-side-down. It was a picture of an ox head. One of the reasons that they know the letters are Semetic* in origin is because ONLY in the the Semitic language does the the word aleph (and also the names of all the other Hebrew letters) have meaning. Aleph is also the Hebrew WORD for OX. There are also other Hebrew words that are very similar and come from the same ROOT. Below are several links to alphabet charts showing the ancient letters and there modern dirivatives.
*Semitic - of the descendents of SHEM the son of NOAH
www.ancient-hebrew.org/5_home.html
www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm
www.phoenicia.org/pics/evolchar.gif
www.phoenicia.org/tblalpha.html
www.mazzaroth.com/Chapter...riting.htm
The Hebrew letter ALEPH also doubles for the number 1. If you would look at a Hebrew book that uses Hebrew page numbers, at the bottom of page one would be the letter ALEPH, not a 1.
After looking at several books, and charts like the ones posted above, I looked at the concordance dictionary for the ROOT and all cognate words related to the word ALEPH.
The actually idea of the root is to "associate with, or team with"........hence the OX, as it was used only in a "team". By looking at the meaning of the other words from this ROOT, sleph, you can see ideas that are based on this thought are:
STRENGTH in unity..........
SHARING, teaching, learning
STRENGTH in numbers
The governor or chief person (STRONG or AUTHORITATIVE person, and also because alpeh has a value of 1, 1st)
I then read through every word in the Concordance that began with the letter ALEPH. This particular letter has a very LARGE number of words, the one thing that stood out to me is all the important names who were FIRSTS, FATHERS, etc. in the OT that begin with this letter:
ELOHIM (God) sp. aleph/lamed/hey/yod/mem ALHYM (our FATHER)
ADAM - FATHER of man
ABRAHAM - FATHER of Israel
AARON - FATHER of all priests
The Hebrew word for FATHER is AB(V)* - ALEPH/BET
Bet is also the WORD for HOUSE, therfore, AB (father) is the STRONG one (aleph) of the HOUSE (bet)
*the Hebrew letter Bet can have 2 sounds.........B and V
We know from scripture(Gen 17:5) that Abraham means "father of many nations"
"dam" in Hebrew is the word for BLOOD (adama is RED EARTH) .........ADAM was the blood father of all men:
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth......
The first word to begin with ALEPH is GOD(Elohim)
The FIRST word in all of scripture is the word b'rashyt (in the beginning). It is spelled in Hebrew B-R-A-sh-y-t.
The FIRST action taken is the word BaRA (created), spelled in Hebrew B-R-A
The FIRST 3 actions in scripture are
1. B-ara ( He created) BRA (He-Jesus Heb 1:2, 11:3)
2. R-achph (Spirit MOVED)
3. A-mar (God SAID)
THREE times this secquence of B-R-A(bet/resh/aleph)
Son in Hebrew is B-ar
Spirit in Hebrew is R-uach
Father in Hebrew is A-v
B-R-A........Son, Spirit, Father
REVIEW OF CONCLUSIONS I eventually reached as to the SPIRITUAL MEANING of the letter ALEPH......
GOD, especially the Godhead(trinity) and God the Father
UNITY or ONENESS with God, made possible by Christ to those who were ELECT in Him, made possible by the "VEIL" of his body(Hbr 10:20), whose flesh was crucified so that we might enter the Holy of Holies and not DIE. This is the first "LIGHT" of our salvation, our STRENGTH in UNITY or ONENESS with GOD... that we are saved from DEATH and joined to LIFE in Him.
..........
The ROOT of the word "ALEPH" is Strong's #502..."alph"
Its basic meaing is to "ASSOCIATE WITH", especially as that association gives STRENGTH(as in a team, or strength in numbers)
Other words from this root are Strong's #503,504,505,441
NOW, this will at first seem a little confusing, but hopefully I can explain it........
The CHARACTER for the letter ALPEH means 1
The CHARACTER with a little dash above it means 1000
(if you look at one of the charts that show the number values of the letters, you will see that the letters run out after 900, so 1000 starts again with the letter aleph)
The WORD for one is "achad" (sp. aleph/chet/dalet)
The WORD for a thousand is ALEPH(or eleph) (even though the character aleph means one)
Both "achad" and "aleph" have this idea of ONENESS in UNITY
Strongs #258 - 'achad - to unify, collect (one's thoughts): go one way or another
Strongs #259 - echad - a numeral from #258; properly united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first: a , alike, alone, altogether, and.......together
Strongs #502 - aleph - to associate with
Because the CHARCATER aleph is used for both 1 and 1000 (with the mark above), and they both have this idea of ONENESS, UNITY, ASSOCIATION....they are seen as RELATED.
This shows up in several scripture verses. Here is just a sample:
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Isa 30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Isa 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation:
The principle if "FIRST MENTION" has long been recognized as a legitimate tool for scriptural interpretation.
As stated in the last post, the first use of the LETTER ALEPH is the 3rd letter of the very first word in all of scripture in the thrice repeated bet/resh/aleph ..BRA, declaring 3 times the Trinity...BAR, RUACH, AB....Son, Spirit, Father
The first word to BEGIN with aleph is ELOHIM is the Hebrew term for God. A better translation would be the ALMIGHTY.
Here's the Hebrew etemology for Elohim:
(I have shortened some of these, you can read full definitions in a Strong's Concordance of the Bible)
Stong's #
430 - ELOHIM - plural of 433.....gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used (In the plural, with the article) of the Supreme God
433 - ELOAH - (singular of Elohim) ....from 410...a diety or The Diety: - God
410 - EL - short form of 352....strength, mighty....especially the ALMIGHTY (but used also of any diety) God (god);mighty one, strong, power.
352 - AYIL - from the same as 193; properly strength, anything strong; spec a chief (politically); also a ram(from his strength; a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree: -mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
...and FINALLY we get to the ROOT of all these words:
193 - UWL - from an anused root meaning to TWIST, i.e. (by implication) be strong; the body (as being rolled together); also powerful: - mighty, strength.
The first use of aleph used as a WORD in itself is in Gen 20:16. It is here used in its meaning of "a thousand" (which is also its most common use in scripture)
Gen 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Gen 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a THOUSAND(ALEPH)[pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was reproved.
Now, I'm going to quote from John Gill's commentary on this verse. (for anyone who is not familiar with Gill, below you'll find a little blurb) I use him, because he is revered by almost everyone as one of the most thorough and knowledgable commentators there is, and he also very knowledgalbe with all the Jewish souces, which have been often helpful in this particular study of the letters.
from John Gill's commentary on this verse:
.....it seems best to refer this to the gift of the thousand pieces of silver, and read the words, "behold, this is to thee {h} a covering of the eyes"; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; for the words are a continued biting sarcasm on Sarah; as Abimelech twits her with calling Abraham her brother in the preceding clause, so in this he tells her that he had given him so much money to buy her a VEIL(covering of the eyes) with, and to supply her with veils from time to time to cover her eyes, that nobody might be tempted to lust after her, and that it might be known she was a married woman; for in these countries married women wore veils for distinction.....
In Middle Eastern society a married woman is to be "veiled" at all times. Only her HUSBAND may remove it. This is as it is with the Chruch, the bride of Christ..We are to be veiled at all times(married to Christ) and only Christ may remove that veil.
we are to be for Him only. He is also the way THROUGH the veil to the Holy of Holies. Only Christ can remove the blinders on our eyes that we may know the Father and understand spiritual things:
2Cr 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
2Cr 3:14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
Another use of the alphabet in scripture is what are called "accrostic" passages, the most well known being Psalm 119. In most Bibles it shows the heading of each section according to the letters of the alphabet. There is a section for each letter. What you CAN'T see, is that in the Hebrew, each verse of that section begins with that letter. For instance, in English the "A" section would be like this:
vs. 1. Always happy is the man who.........
vs. 2. Always happy are they that.....
vs. 3. Also, they......
vs. 4. As thou has commanded us.........
etc., etc.
Psalm 119 is not the only chapter that is arranged like this. It is just the longest and most well known. There are several others. One that you might be familiar with is the 22 verses in Proverbs 31:10-31 about the "virtuous woman". Verse 1 starts with a word that begins with an aleph (A), verse 2 with a bet, and so on, all the way through the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Lamentation 1,2,3, & 4 the same (chpt 3 has 3 verses for each letter). Psalm 112 is about a righteous man, and is alphabetically arranged every HALF verse. There are several others. More often than not, when I looked at the verses for each of the letters, they would loosely or overtly reflect what I found to be the spiritual meaning of that letter.
In the case of the chapters I mentioned in Lamentations, which are JUDGMENT on Israel, they would reflect the exact opposite..........as in the case with the ALEPH, instead of LIGHT, or STRENGTH IN UNITY and ONENESS with God, the judgment was "DARKNESS, WEAKNESS, ALONENESS", and DISASSOCIATION." (see Lam 1:1, 2:1, 4:1 and 3:1-3....these are all the "aleph" verses describing Israel's judgment.
In the case of the ALEPH verse of the virtuous woman, the word "virtuous", if you look it up in the Strongs (#242 means "STRENGTH or MIGHT".
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While working on this study, I ran across the following site:
www.mayimhayim.org/AlephBetMystery.htm
It contends that the 22 verses in the NT which contain the word "MYSTERY" the very SUBJECT of the mystery correspond to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. As I looked at these for myself when I did each of the letters, I found nearly the same conclusions. Not only do they correspond, but in the exact order in which the verses are found in the NT!
The alpeh, being symbolic of GOD, the GODHEAD, etc,.... the first verse in the NT containing the word "mystery" is Mark 4:11:And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of GOD......
.................
Another thing I looked at was a name given to Jesus for the meaning of each of the letters and how that related to the seven feasts. I already gave the verse for aleph in my very first post when I listed ALL of the verses. It is the verse about being "like a lamb or OX that is brought to the slaughter", which relates both to the pictoral meaning of the AELPH, an OX AND to the 1st feast of Passover.
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One of the LAST things I looked at was the gematria of the word ALEPH. For anyone that is not familiar with that term, it is the SUM of the number values of each letter that makes up a word. (like the 666 being the 'mark' of the beast) Other words which add up to the SAME gematria are believed to be spiritually connected. One would think there might be several such words, but this is not the case. Sometimes it was difficult to come up with ONE such word. It is because of the 3 letter ROOT system of the Hebrew. There just aren't that many possibilities to look for. So, to come up with the gematria of the word "ALEPH" spelled in Hebrew: aleph/lamed/pey, you add together:
the number value of aleph which is 1
the number value of lamed which is 30
and the number value of pey which is 80
1 + 30 + 80 = 111
Now, not only is 111 very suggestive of the GODHEAD in its THREE-IN-ONENESS, one of only THREE words that has the same gematria is the word "misveh" sp. mem(40)/samech(60)/vav(6)/hey(5).....40+60+5+6 = 111. It means VEIL!!!
The first time it is used is in Ex. 24:33 where Moses veiled his face after coming down from being with God.
The other two words with a gematria of 111 also have a similar meaning of something wonderful and mysterious, or something hidden or dark.
...................
All of these things together COULD be just coincidence....but when you see how letter after letter keeps having these same "coincidences"...........well by the time I got to the 5th letter, I was thoroghly convinced that God had intended to reveal His Son and His work of salvation even in the very letters of the words that tell the story.
That's enough for ALEPH, I'll try to start on BET Wednesday..
P.S. Please, if any of you see something else, please add to this post!! Everytime I explain this I find something else!!
in Yeshua............YY
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