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In Hebrew, the word for truth, emet (אֱמֶת), contains the first, middle, and the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, indicating that truth encompasses all things and endures from the beginning (א) to the end (ת)..
בראשית ברא אלהים
את השמים ואת הארץ
Genesis 1:1 Hebrew Text Analysis
"science of meaning in language," 1893, from French sémantique (1883); see
semantic (also see -ics). Replaced semasiology (1847), from German Semasiologie (1829), from Greek semasia "
signification, meaning."
semantics | Origin and meaning of semantics by Online Etymology Dictionary
"in linguistics, 1866, from Greek sema"
sign" (see
semantic). Compare
pheme, etc.
"early 13c., "gesture or motion of the hand," especially one meant to communicate something, from Old French signe "
sign, mark," from Latin signum "identifying mark, token, indication, symbol;
proof; military standard, ensign; a signal, an omen; sign in the heavens, constellation...
According to Watkins, literally "standard that one follows," from PIE *sekw-no-, from
root *sekw- (1) "to follow." But de Vaan has it from PIE *sekh-no- "cut," from PIE
root *sek- "to cut" He writes: "The etymological appurtenance to seco 'to cut' implies a semantic shift of *sek-no- 'what is cut out', 'carved out' > 'sign'." But he also also compares Hebrew sakkin, Aramaic sakkin "slaughtering-knife," and mentions a theory that "both words are probably borrowed from an unknown third source...
"...to set a mark upon, mark out, designate; mark with a stamp; distinguish, adorn;" figuratively "to point out, signify, indicate," from signum "identifying mark, sign" (see
sign (n.)). Sense of "to mark, stamp" is attested from mid-14c.; that of "to affix one's name" is from late 15c..."
sign | Origin and meaning of sign by Online Etymology Dictionary
"The
Aleph is a letter which began in the Paleo-Hebrew as a depiction of an ox head. This ox head, when turned to point upward, is the modern capital “A” of our alphabet. This symbol conveys the power found in the horns of the ox, and its subsequent authority. However, there is nothing wasted in the Hebrew; even the spelling of the letter Aleph (אלפ), has its own intrinsic meaning.
The ox head became the symbol of leadership and in meaning is distinguished from the letter resh (ר), from which the word rosh (as in Rosh Hashanah) is derived. Rosh denotes the first leader – the chief. The Aleph denotes the heavenly primacy; that is to say, the first position in all things. The modern
Aleph (א) again is so very interesting, in that it depicts the whole of the concept in the revealing of the Ayn Sof – the infinite who occupies infinite dimensions infinitely – to mankind. In its essence, the modern Aleph has a yod (י) above and a yod (י) below, divided yet connected by the mediator vav (ו) we call ben Elohiym (Son of Elohiym). The letter Aleph then depicts the yod (the right hand of Elohiym), the yod (the left hand of Elohiym) and the vav (the mediator ben Elohiym – HAMASHIACH). It is of some consequence that the yod on earth (the hand of Elohiym on earth) is connected to the yod in the heavens (the hand of Elohiym in the heavens) by means of the vav, which means the nail. Behold the nail (ה then ו), behold the hand (ה then י)."
The term Aleph (Aleph-lamed-phe) means in its essence the oxhead, the shepherd’s staff, and the mouth or voice. Aleph as spelled out means the
voice of the chief shepherd (or divine shepherd). It is also of some interest to those who follow the geometry of Hebrew, that this construction of the modern Aleph as yod-yod-vav, leaves in its wake a gematria of 26, which is the divine gematria of the tetragrammaton we transliterate as YAHUAH (again, יהוה). Fascinating, isn’t it?...
We have almost answered the question concerning the
Tav. Consider that the
tree is called in Hebrew עֵץ `(etz); and that a
branch (נצר netzer) shall grow out of the
roots of Yishay (Jesse)(Yesha’yahu 11:1); and that the town of Natsareth (נצרת Netzerath) is the place of the
Branch, and that נצר netzer means the
seed of the
tree, and that YAHUSHA was marked on the cross (which Kepha (Peter) refers to as a
tree (etz) Kepha Ri’shon 2:24) as the Natsariy (נצרי), that therefore his followers might be known as the Natsariym (נצרים).
The Tav, the two crossed sticks, the two crossed
trees, ultimately, is Yisrael...
...In the beginning, Elohiym created eth – the Aleph Tav. The Aleph Tav preceded the creation of the heavens and preceded the creation of the earth! Because the
Aleph is the first letter, and the Tav the last, it is equally true that the word eth also means Aleph through Tav (and all points in between). In short, the Aleph Tav represents every
Word (omer) of ELOHIYM...
...Yahuchanon 1:1-3
In the beginning was the
Word, and the
Word was with
את ELOHIYM, and the
Word was ELOHIYM. 2 The same was in the beginning with
את ELOHIYM. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not...
I leave you with the parting words of Yahuchanon in the Chizayon of YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH:
Chizayon 22:13-14
I am the Aleph Tav; the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life (etz chayim), and may enter in through the gates into the city."
What is the Aleph Tav?
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The Aleph and Tav in the Hebrew Scriptures