5. Hey | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | How Abram became Abraham, and more
How Abram and Sarai became Abraham and Sarah, and other uses of the letter Hey in the Bible.
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Timestamps:
0:00 How the letter Hey is used in Hebrew
1:11 Word picture: Adam
2:10 Hebrew Words for Man and Woman
2:32 Practicing “ha”
3:05 New names for Abraham and Sarah
6:07 “Mountain” in Hebrew
6:31 Adam was here
7:14 Song: “Forward”
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Transcript:
Dawson: The fifth letter in the original Hebrew alphabet is called “hey” and it’s a picture of a man holding his arms up. It’s used for look, lo and behold, look here, this, to reveal, revelation and for man himself and mankind.
The letter “hey” has a lot of uses in the Hebrew language and it’s often added to the beginning of words and to the end of words to change the meaning or add a preface. One very common example is when you hear the sound “ha” before a word in Hebrew. It normally means “the”. So “haderek” is “the way”. Hashamayim is “the heavens” and in the very first sentence of Genesis, it says in the beginning, Elohim created hashamayim the heavens and haaretz, the earth.
Hebrew has a system of roots. So normally even when you see a very long word that looks a bit complicated, it consists of a root word with letters such as “hey” and other letters that are added to adjust the meaning or to add things to it. This is an example of the word for blood and it’s pronounced “dam,” dalet, mem.
If you add an alef to the beginning of this word, it becomes “Adam” who was put in charge of all of the animals and given dominion on the planet. The chief of blood, you could say, Adam, or as we would call him, Adam.
If you take the word “Adam,” and add a hey at the end of it, you have the word for “ground,” “adamah”. Adam was taken from the ground, Adam from adamah.
A similar thing happened in the Garden of Eden with Adam’s wife Eve. When Father created her and presented her to Adam, Adam said, “She shall be called Ishah because she was taken out of Ish. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.”
Carlos: OK. So how do you say mist or fog?
Dawson: Anan.
Carlos: How do you say the fog?
Dawson: Ha’anan.
Carlos: How do you say tree?
Dawson: Etz.
Carlos: How do you say the tree?
Dawson: Ha’etz.
Carlos: How do you say storm?
Dawson: Saar.
Carlos: How do you say the storm?
Dawson: Ha’saar.
Carlos: “Ha” is used a lot for “the”.
Dawson: There’s a really great story in the Bible about the letter “hey” and that is the story of how Abram became Abraham and how his wife Sarai became Sarah and Father used that letter “hey” to reveal to them what their future would be like.
In Abraham’s case, he was to become the father of a vast multitude and the word that Father uses when He describes the reason for the name change is “hamon”. He was to become av hamon, goyim, father of a multitude of nations and the word “hamon” is used for such a great mass of people that they make a tumultuous noise. It’s also translated as hordes.
So Abraham would have a ton of children and so it is to this day. His son Ishmael, just with Ishmael, he had 12 grandsons and then with Isaac and Jacob, he had another 12 great-grandsons. But not just that. He was also – Abraham was also the father of Midian, the tribe of people that received Moses when he came out of Egypt and he was the grandfather of Sheba and Dedan who show up in the Gog Magog prophecy.
For Sarai, what Father did to change her name is He replaced the last letter of her name and put a “hey” in its place. Now the root word of “Sarah” and “Sarai” is “sar” and when you read in Daniel that Yeshua is the Lord of lords. It is sar of sars. So it’s a name that means captain and leader and lord and person in charge.
So, when Father explained to Abraham why his wife should not be called Sarai anymore but should be called Sarah, it was because kings would come through her. Leaders of men would come through her, which is pictured in the word and in the name “Sarah”.
This is the word for mountain. It’s “hey-resh,” behold, the top. Mountain. Behold the top.
Carlos: How do you say the mountain?
Dawson: Ha’har.
Carlos: Hahar.
Dawson: What is it? Oh.
Carlos: Look, you can barely make this paleo writing out. We found some paleo writing.
Dawson: It’s an alef.
Carlos: A-dam, there’s like a mah, a-dam-ah.
Dawson: Adam was here.
Until we can go on expedition, we will just start looking for those enigmatic writings from before the flood around here. See you guys.
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