What is a "Bone Day"? Is this term in the Bible? If not, why would I think it means anything?
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Do you see these Jews praying while leaning upon and caressing stones in a wall hewn and carved they could just as well be the tables of stone from the mountain Sinai upon which Moses had carved out the Ten Words given him of God to carve out?
In vain will you ask these Jews about the "Bone Day". In December 2010 I asked a rabbi of theirs, Rabbi, said I, You are a rabbi aren't you? Yes, I am a rabbi, answered he.
Asked I, Sir, please then tell how do you say in Hebrew -- You know Hebrew I know, of course. How do you say in your language, 'this', 'that', 'the very one'? I didn't tell him "selfsame", because at that time, that word which is a specific KJV word, has not yet occurred to me as such.
So the rabbi wrote down on a piece of scrap paper for me something like 'hi', 'ha', 'hu'. (I still have the piece of paper.) I looked at it, and said to him, Please write the Hebrew letters for me? So he wrote next to the transcribed sound of each word, the Hebrew symbols, one symbol for each English sound of more than one letter. I was puzzled and a bit amused, because I knew nothing of Hebrew.
Now began my long struggle to 'decipher' the Hebrew symbols and find them in the Hebrew lexicon. I had an interlinear of Genesis and Exodus, and went through every word and letter of the texts which have "the day", "that day" etcetera. You will appreciate the task I took on if you look up these terms in Young's Analytical Concordance. After months of the hardest study of my life, I slowly began to see something strange in the long lists of these phrases in Young's, How many times when a "day" is specifically "this / that day", there was some tragic, often death related connotation about it somewhere in the context.
It was this idea of suffering and death which caused me to notice an English phrase connected with the passover more specifically; it was "the selfsame day". I had to find out why the KJV calls it so, and it was back to square one for me and again go through those lists of "the day", "this day" and "that day" in Youngs: all in vain. Meantime I learned a few more Hebrew symbols, and, comparing Young's and the Concordance / Lexicon, like a jet of lightning it struck me, in Young's, the transcription, 'etsem you' -- in the Lexicon, 'gheh-tsem yom' which in some texts in the KJV of the phrase is translated "selfsame day" -- the Hebrew 'etsem'-'bone' plus Hebrew 'yom'-'day'.
At this stage this amateur Hebrew linguist had become the laughingstock of quite a few respected Jewish, Hebrew scholars. No Christian Hebrew scholars had any idea about what I was concerned. But I was sure of myself and was sure there is much, much more about this matter to be discovered. I was proven right--'dead' right!
TBC if you so desired.
