The Image of God - Part 2 of 2

[@pianolounge]

:) yet again! Wonderful video! Very insightful, I liked your break down of the text to bring us Shadow. The way you explain hebrew, it gives more meaning and sense to the words than our english words. You're doing us a very big service, It's well appreciated!

[@littleamigos]

I really enjoyed this 2 part lesson. I especially liked your alternate rendering of "taking God's name in vain". The Jews took this to the extreme and made it so that even uttering the divine name was a bad thing. Thanks again for your great videos!

[@ancienthebreworg]

Thank you for the encouragement Lypur, glad you and others are enjoying the videos.

[@Ogram1000]

This by far was an eye opening experience.

[@ancienthebreworg]

The terms image and likeness are not referring to the outside (the form and appearance), but rather the inside of the person (the character of the person.)

[@ancienthebreworg]

The use of a plural for a singular is not unique to this word alone. Here is an example. Ex 21:6 - then his lord will make him draw near... The word for "his lord" is adonanav which literally means "his lords." However context implies there is only one lord. If you wanted to view the word et as a preposition then it should be translated "and he created elohiym with man in his own image." In contrast, "for man" would in Hebrew be "leadam" where the prefix "le" means "for."

[@ancienthebreworg]

Some scholars have shown that all 3 letter roots come from a 2 letter root and in my book, The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible, I show this relationship between 3 letter roots from 2 letter roots and each root and word derived from one 2 letter root are related in meaning. One very frequent 3 letter root derived out of a 2 letter root is formed by placing the letter nun in front of the 2 letter root and this new root is usually very closely related in meaning to the 2 letter root. Cont....

[@Johnathon10]

I can’t imagine this information not being of the _utmost_ importance!

[@ancienthebreworg]

While on the surface it may look like this is a possible translation of this passage. However, the problem is the word "et." This word identifies the direct object of the verb, which is ha'adam (the man). Therefore, the man is what was filled (created) and Elohiym has to be the subject of the verb (the he in the verb vai-yiv-ra). In your tranlsation you have the "elohiym" as the object of the verb and this can't be.

[@acerimmeh]

Excellent Jeff, the alternate rendering has alot more depth to it. Thanks mate :-)

[@ancienthebreworg]

When the vav is used as a prefix (at the beginning of a word) it always means "and." When the letter vav is used as a suffix (at the end of a word) it is always the third person possessive prnoun "his." This is just basic Hebrew grammar. The letter hey has even more uses. 1. as a prefix - the 2. as a prefix - is (as in a question) 3. as a suffix - unto 4. as a suffix - her 5. as a suffix to a verb - she

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah How do you know that the letter yud is pronounced as a Y?

[@likesachiweandsakuwaha]

I would love to meet this man in person!

[@ancienthebreworg]

@ghostdancer1984 Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. I have to agree with you, Hebrew is very mind blowing, and I have been hooked on it for many years.

[@ancienthebreworg]

The Kidney is the seat of emotion on Hebraic thought. I am only speculating here, but I believe the liver was the seat of honor to the Ancient Hebrews. This is based on the fact that the word for honor comes from the same root as the word for liver.

[@ancienthebreworg]

@davegooley Thanks, and yes, you are correct. The problem being modern translations approach the text from a Greco-Roman Western perspective instead of a Hebrew Eastern one.

[@shanewalsh7388]

Awesome teaching! Love it! Where can I learn more? God bless

[@ancienthebreworg]

The real issue here is that our modern Western culture applies specific context to words. For instance, in our culture the heart is related to emotion and the brain to knowledge. But in the ancient Hebrew culture the heart is related to knowledge and the kidneys to emotion. If we are going to read the Bible from the perspective it was written in, we must define each word according to its Hebrew perspective and not a Modern western one.

[@ancienthebreworg]

@WaysOfMan Actually, פרח is related to פר, as are פרץ פרד פרס and few others. Don't take my word for it, see Rabbi Mattityahu Clark's book the Etymolligical Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew where he uses Rabbi Samson Raphel Hirsches works. I do not see שקר in the Deut or Exodus passage. In fact this verse is identical in both books and they both use שוא.

[@akikusashintaro9088]

According to BDB the Liver is the seat of emotions not the kidney. Same root and meaning as sorrow, angry, stubborn, heavy, honour, distress, burden etc. There are various Asian languages that still refer to the liver for emotions.

[@OGxsixela]

So awesome

[@ManaMunch]

Being that elohiym is plural, it could mean the oath to his teachings, which are more than one, by doing so, we are aligned with him (his shadow) and thus, in the correct path (tzadik) and not lost (rasha). What do you think about this? (by being filled with his shadow, we do not have any part outside of it. Having a part outside of him/his teachings, would mean we are partly lost and not in the right path)

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah Yes, I really asked that, but you didn't answer the question. Sure we pronounce names and words with a Y all the time, but how do you know that the letter Yud was always pronounced with a Y, and not a W or F? How do you know? What evidence can you use to "prove" the yud was always pronounced with a Y?

[@ancienthebreworg]

Thank you and I agree with you. This is why independent study is so important, are we going to trust what the Bible says or what our religious leaders are telling us it says?

[@barneyroberts668]

Yahshua breathed on the disciples.The common misconception is that they receive the Holy Spirit at that point however the Holy Spirit had not yet been given the Christ had not yet been glorified. Furthermore Acts chapter 2 says all of them the hundred and twenty in the upper room received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah Pronunciation of Hebrew and translation of Hebrew are two very different things, don't confuse them or assume they are one and the same thing.

[@ancienthebreworg]

I noticed in my post the end has "Cont..." and evidently my second post wasn't uploaded, but I don't remember what I was attempting to show with that post LOL :-) No, I am not disagreeing with you, but I do think that your viewpoint was limited. The Hebrew language is very dynamic with many different levels and I am trying to point out that we need to understand the dynamic nature of the Hebrew language and not look at it from a western perspective.

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah It is not only in a personal message to you or anyone else, I have and do tell many that I do not believe Yahweh was the original pronunciation, I believe it to be Yihweh, but this is solely based on the traditional grammatical pronunciation of Hebrew, which over time changes. Therefore, it is likely that I am wrong and maybe you're right, or maybe everyone is all wrong. How can anyone know exactly how the name was pronounced with 100% certainty? Can you?

[@roderickd.thornfoundationa5702]

Global Impact Ministries In Exodus 3:15 , YHWH ELOHIM says I AM /YHWH is My SHEM/APPELLATION/NAME FOREVER/for ALL ETERNITY/ to ALL GENERATIONS/for ALL INFINITY/FOREVERMORE !!!!!!!

[@ancienthebreworg]

Thank you Yuri :-)

[@jenna2431]

This really also makes you think about what Yeshua said about calling your brother a fool and Whom you might actually be insulting with that.

[@ancienthebreworg]

I would agree with this, I like it.

[@richardrussell9182]

Thanks Jeff!!! Awesome!!! Reading the comments on the name brings to thought revelations 19:12,13. The charactor translation fits perfectly instead of name. Also when I read in the name of, I also assume in the authority of. I guess Yah is tired of asumptions and only desires a personal relationship and true acts of neighborly love.

[@099749]

Thankyou for this film, could we not understand from this that, God in a sense breathed his character into man, a character of life? A character of life given to a shaddow?

[@099749]

ok, so would it read like God breathed into man his character of life? I mean God is. so God is life or is existence. It's like gods character is existence. Something else I noticed is that the breath also destroys, Isaiah 40 "grass withers and the flowers fade". Do you know what changes the breath, to bring life or death? or maybe better said do you have any idea why there is this change in function? Just to say it appears to me to be two different types of breath.

[@TalkProphetic]

So let me get this straight the Hebrews mistranted bara Eloah as bara Elohim? Plural? Mistranslation?

[@Mansouralfaransyy]

Shalom SaLeM, behind "shadows", it means "form" (outline) and yes, Here the darkness of the shadow is not in this meaning. These forms are from Eloh-of-all.

[@ancienthebreworg]

Do you mean the "elohiym the man?" If so, grammatically that would be impossible as "the man" is identified grammatically as the object of the verb (the one the action of the verb is imparted on), not "elohiym." Grammatically, the word elohiym must be the subject of the verb (the one doing the action).

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg I'm a truth seeker so with that:The Hebrew Heh can never be a vowel letter in the middle of a word." Gesenius Hebrew Grammar p. 56. That being said, the second character in the tetragrammeton is a Heh so the letter before that would need to be the Vowel Y and not the consonant H or W.

[@ancienthebreworg]

You're welcome.

[@ancienthebreworg]

@SawanYHWH LOL, TY :-) and as an avid Trek Fan, I can sure appreciate the humor.

[@jerelmercurio4754]

It seems as though shadow could also be a blueprint inside us. As a few other verses such as CORII also indicate. Name falsely I've heard of as letting his name be brought to the dust by not using it. Understanding the verse of not taking the name in vain ( lies ) aka do not accept another name, he has one name forever and any other is a lie.

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg I know what both mean, translation conveys the MEANING into a new language and pronounciation is how you speak the word! Again are you telling me you cannot pronounce a 4 letter word but there a literally 100 plus words with the exact lettering and you are able to pronounce those words but not the Tetragrammeton? I.E. Judah/Yahuwdah have the same letters with an addition of the delet or "d" as the Tetragrammeton but you are unable to pronounce even close?

[@TheThrone4ever]

I have a question what bible would you recommend? I've been seeing a lot of people put down the King James Version but not one can give me a good unbiased bible. The bibles I have been looking at are Hebraic roots version; One New Man and another one that is just KJV that replaces God for El, Lord for YHWH, and Jesus for Yahshua. Which would you go for?

[@jdparamount92]

TheThrone4ever I can tell you upfront, having read the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, not to read the KJV. Regarding linguistics and etymology as well. The Voice, the Message, and the Holman Christian standard are fine, but personally, it seems that translators have been rather lazy in translating the sacred text because of one reason or another, like tradition, for example.

[@roderickd.thornfoundationa5702]

YHWH ELOHIM says I AM /YHWH is My SHEM/APPELLATION/NAME FOREVER/for ALL ETERNITY/ to ALL GENERATIONS/for ALL INFINITY/FOREVERMORE !!!!!!!

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah One other thing... I have found that on the internet there are two kinds of people, dissenters and truth seekers. Truth seekers use open dialogue and discuss both sides of the issue. The dissenters on the other hand have an agenda and a closed mind. Do you know which one of these you are?

[@ancienthebreworg]

Thank you, glad you're enjoying them. I agree, the idea that pronouncing the name is forbidden is very unbiblical. Interestingly, there are verses that say "proclaim the name YHWH" and Judaism has twisted this and now would read that verse as "proclaim the name HaShem, but don't ever say YHWH."

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah Again, you are confusing pronunciation with translation, we can translate the text, but can really pronounce it as it was pronounced 3,000 years ago? I think you are not getting the hint. The point is, we only know how to pronounce any letter by "tradition," and "traditions" do change. We will NEVER know how Hebrew was pronounced 3,000 years ago, unless we find a 3,000 year old tape recorder or mp3 recording.

[@macmac1625]

Jeff A. Benner lol

[@roderickd.thornfoundationa5702]

Jeff A. Benner You said that Shem which is translated into English as " Name " , also in Hebrew thought is known to mean " Breath" too ? Wow ! So where does being " DIVINELY Inspired " , or " ELOHIM Breathed " leave us ? Wow !!!!!! The ENITRE Word of YHWH ELOHIM is " ELOHIM BREATHED " , or DIVINELY INSPIRED , so the Hebrew word " SHEM" or also translated into English a " NAME " , means that the entire Word of YHWH ELOHIM exists, and is quickened (made ALIVE ) by the DIVINE/Most HALLOWED SHEM/NAME/DEITY/PERSON/CHARACTER of Adonai YHWH ELOHIM the Everlasting Father !!!!!!!

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah If I were to use Yihweh in my videos, no one would know what I was talking about as no one know what Yihweh is. Also, I am not so arrogant to believe that Yihweh is with certainty how the name was pronounced and could very well be wrong, so why be so militant about it? I can gaurentee that Hebrew was pronounced very differently than it is today, but we have no way of know how Hebrew was pronounced. We only rely on tradition.

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah You still haven't answered the question.

[@WaysOfMan]

Equating שם with the root letters נשמ seems as smart as saying פר comes from פרח. Also שוא is used in Deut. not Ex. In Exodus it actually does say שקר. As I'm sure you know two similar words will never mean the exact same thing in Hebrew. So שוא will not mean 'false' since that is שקר. Rather, since saying something falsely is using your words unproductively (Ex. 23:7), it can be said that you have spoken in vain.

[@ancienthebreworg]

Nothing more than a difference of opinion between lexicons :-)

[@cciukraine434]

I am not being sarcastic, I just want to know your opinion. Do you think the Jews who spoke Hebrew on a daily basis understood the language so poorly that they made a decision based on Exodus 20:7 not to pronounce the Tetragrammaton at all?

[@Meshack]

Vladimir Shevchenko It’s not that they didn’t understand Hebrew, it’s that Jews didn’t want people taking God’s name Yah or Yahweh and doing horrific things in the name of God. He’s saying the same thing basically

[@jesusprince33]

So that's mean the shadow is the holy spirit of Yahweh

[@ErezGeva2]

I wanted to quoting a famous song by Zelda. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_(poet). The song was written in 1974 and show how modern Hebrew, Israelis think about "name". לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתַן לוֹ אֱלֹהִים וְנָתְנוּ לוֹ אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתְנוּ לוֹ קוֹמָתוֹ וְאֹפֶן חִיּוּכוֹ וְנָתַן לוֹ הָאָרִיג, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָתְנוּ לוֹ הֶהָרִים וְנָתְנוּ לוֹ כְּתָלָיו, ... לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָתְנוּ לוֹ חֲטָאָיו וְנָתְנָה לוֹ כְּמִיהָתוֹ, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָתְנוּ לו שׂונְאָיו וְנָתְנָה לוֹ אַהֲבָתוֹ, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָתְנוּ לוֹ חַגָּיו וְנָתְנָה לוֹ מְלַאכְתוֹ, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָתְנוּ לוֹ תְּקוּפוֹת הַשָּׁנָה וְנָתַן לוֹ עִוְרוֹנוֹ, לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתַן לוֹ הַיָּם וְנָתַן לוֹ מוֹתוֹ. he.wikipedia.org/wiki/לכל_איש_יש_שם Now replace נשמה were you see שם. Another point to mention is the Holocaust memorial place in Israel is named יד ושם

[@WaysOfMan]

@ancienthebreworg What you are doing is taking the sentence "I want to eat cookies" and saying that it really means "I want to eat any cooked foods". Cookies may have some etymological relation to cooked foods because they are related, not because they are interchangeable. In reference to what you say at 2:26 into the video: When bringing Ex. 20:6 you refer to verse 12 when you had really meant Deut. 5:16. That is שוא and שקר by witness.

[@kdcruz75]

from reading strong's concordance .and blacks law dictionary .my intuition tells me that the book of genesis is a description of the creation of HUE_MAN the creation of a slave entity to till the land ..it seems to me a description of how the feudal system was set up .. for example in teh blacks law dictionary : marriage is defined as the incorporation of the woman's business into the HUSBAND's (ie house bonded slave) ..the daughter , becomes the side business of the family ( = slaves)

[@ancienthebreworg]

@FollowerofYahuwah I have never in any of my videos claimed to know how Hebrew was pronounced 3,000 years ago, like you. I only claim to know how to translate the text (as best as I can, but I still admit it isn't perfect). You are still confusing pronunciation and translation and assuming they the same thing and you still haven't answered my question.

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg Look heres my last comment, my question to you was if you know Yahweh is incorrect and you believe it, until otherwise proven different, to be Yihweh; why do you speak the name Yahweh in you videos rather than lets say Yihweh? That was all I wanted to know, knowingly saying the wrong name and making an educated guess is two different things.

[@stanlyprincemca]

Tham means red in Tamil language

[@debracarey2129]

Aleph Tav et. First and Last. In Greek, Alpha and Omega.

[@Alxndr21]

Interesting the truth of the statement, there is no other God. Interesting that worshiping an image is directing attention away from what IS in YOU. Interesting that not living in vain(falsely) means your life has purpose. Interesting that not resting in HIM produces seeking after of other things. Interesting that hating your parents is hating yourself. Interesting that murder is destruction of what is like you. Interesting that adultery is becoming one with what is not of you. Interesting that stealing is taking what is not of you. Interesting that speaking untruth with His breath in your mouth is divisive. Interesting that desiring what is someone else's is hating what you have. AND MOST INTERESTING: That if you do not look to the beginning of WHO YOU ARE, you begin to act in all the ways you are not.

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg Did you really just ask that question? There are 137 Israelite names with "yah", and there is also the word Halleluyah. You yourself said the FALSE name Yihweh had the Yud acting as a Y, I guess you are starting to question yourself!

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew English Lexicon. In Arabic, Jehu was pronounced "Yahu". See Hastings Dictionary of the Bible. All this evidence and more, suggest that "Yahu" was used at the beginning of names. Really we could go back and forth BUT the fact you even pronounce the name as starting with a Y speaks volumes! Again if there is such uncertainty then how do you claim to be able to pronounce and translate correctly, now you answer!

[@tigerwabbit3809]

Personally, I would interpret this as: "And our Creator filled homo sapiens sapiens bodies with a soul containing his holy spirit." (Before the fall). My interpretation could be totally absurd, but that is how it feels to me. However, this leaves me with another question. What do animals have? Just a body without soul and holy spirit? Just a body without a soul but guided by the Holy Spirit? Or, Just a body with a soul and no holy spirit? Hummmmm.......?????? Personally, if can't see my family and friends, my 4 legged and winged friends, heaven does not interest me at all. Might as well fall into eternal non consciousness.

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg So why do you not call him Fahweh or Wahweh! Again look at the 137 Y'Israelites whose names began with the same pronounciation of Y! If you are soo unsure of when to use which pronounciation then how can you put out videos as if you KNOW the correct pronounciations and translations of the Hebrew Scriptures? If everything is sooo uncertain then what makes you such an expert?

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg YaHuWaH stated over and over that his Name would be with His people..... Judah/YAHUWdAH ....Jews/YAHUWdiy! Where do you get Yihweh, the EH ending from the Greeks as they found the AH sound at the end as feminine which is NOT true with Hebrew! Perfect ex. is Noah in the Old Test. and Noe in the New Test. and again there are MANY other examples!

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

Name or Shem does mean Character because Names MEAN something in Hebrew... I.E. YaHuWaH MEANS I AM THAT I AM or SELF EXISTANT BEING so the MEANING of His name IS His Character or WHO He is! So the idea of taking His name in VAIN (Not Important/Worthless) is still about treating His name like it's NOT IMPORTANT! Again in you Personal Message you sent me you stated that you KNEW Yahweh was incorrect so are you not taking His name in Vain?

[@cribbswh]

Jeff, I appreciate all of your efforts and they certainly cause one to think. However, I'm sure that the whole Bible could be rewritten using these tactics. I believe, based on the Word itself, that God has preserved His Word, not only its inspiration, but its distribution, its translation, its, revelation, and its implementation when applied correctly. We have no need to redefine words beyond what the Spirit of truth has done for every generation. Psalms 12:6-7

[@andrewdunton6304]

Yeah if that were the case the Catholic church would not have put books in then taken them out of the bible, Let alone Martin Luthers translation that gave you your bible. True inspiration occured when all the lost books were together and translation has occured hundreds of times before now. So think about what you are saying and learn some history on the book you think you know.

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg If you know Yahweh is wrong then WHY do you not use the name you think is right? You said you could be wrong with that FALSE name Yihwah but you know for a certainty that Yahweh is wrong so why would you not use Yihweh???And yes you can figure out the Most High';s name which IS YaHuWaH and that is easily proved which I did to you in that personal message which you did not refute but rather you aditted at that time Yahweh was wrong!

[@joesmith5302]

Blah, blah, ... gobbledegook. Only solid objects cast images such as shadows, can be cast on canvas as a picture or molded into a statue. The Creator God had a corporeal body, as does man. We look like him. He looks like us. Duh!

[@FollowerofYahuwah]

@ancienthebreworg If you cannot explain WHY you say the teaching you give are correct and that there is a very good chance of being wrong then we should end this and you should not be putting out videos, you are the one putting out videos NOT me!