17. Peh | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | Paleo Man, a Double Edged Sword, and Taking Time to Pray
Every day uses for Hebrew letters and words, and a double-edged sword for Father’s sheep.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Everyday paleo
2:32 Paleo Man: Hebrew letters and words on our faces
5:37 Peh: the letter and the word
5:49 Examples of the Hebrew peh in real life (caves, jars, the ephod and food)
8:38 Face-to-face with YHVH
10:14 Double-edged sword, sword of the Spirit
13:13 Word picture for praying in Hebrew
13:48 Song: Later On
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Transcript:
Dawson: Today’s letter is Peh, and in the Original Hebrew alphabet, the letter peh was a picture of a mouth. You may have noticed by now that a lot of the letters in the Original Hebrew are pictures of things that we have on our bodies or things that we come into contact with every single day.
Chances are, you wake up in the morning, open your ayin, drink some mem, and get ready to leave the beyt. You put your keys in the kaf of your yod, open the dalet in the middle of your chet and head out for the day. And at night, you brush your shin and lay your resh on your pillow and get some sleep.
I think it was by design that Father used things that are very easily recognizable to us to help us understand His alphabet and His words. We all have a mouth, a peh, and we all know that the mouth is used to say things. And so the letter peh in Hebrew is often used to mean to say or to speak things like a command.
Another common use for the letter peh in Hebrew words is to mean open and opening. The collar of your shirt for example which is an opening for your head is considered a peh in Hebrew.
As we are filming this episode, it’s spring time and the buds on the trees are beginning to open up and blossom into flowers. Not surprisingly, we see the letter peh in the Hebrew words for bud, blossom, and flower.
We will talk more about the different uses of the letter peh in Hebrew words in a bit. But before we do that, I’d like to show you that there’s some really cool Paleo right in front of you any time you want to take a look in the mirror.
Paleo man.
Lisa: I think the hair should be longer. [Laughs]
Dawson: So here we are with Paleo man. And I’m going to show you a few Paleo Hebrew letters and also a few very simple Hebrew words that have to do with the face.
The first one is going to be peh, which is the mouth. If Paleo man were smiling, we would see his shin, his teeth. In Hebrew, the word “shin” means teeth. And in the Original Hebrew alphabet, the letter shin was a picture of teeth.
Now, the same way your shin, your teeth are in front of your face, the letter shin is used in Hebrew words to mean front. So in front of this man’s mouth are his lips, and the word for lips in Hebrew is shin pey hey. It’s a picture of what is in front of the mouth of man.
Now, he has also got an aph, a nose. And the word for nose in Hebrew by the letters is a picture of a chief opening, another meaning, very, very common meaning for the letter peh in Hebrew words is opening. If you were to think about the entrance to a cave, in English we call it the mouth of a cave. So in Hebrew, you would call it a peh of a cave. Peh means opening. So there is a chief opening on all of our faces and that is our nose.
When Father created Adam from the dust, it’s written that He breathed the breath of life into Adam’s aph, into his nose. It’s the chief opening, that with which we breathe.
There’s another Paleo Hebrew letter that we all have on our faces, and that is the letter ayin. In the Original Hebrew alphabet, the letter ayin was a picture of the eye. Now, we open each ayin with the assistance of an eyelid and the Hebrew word for eyelid is very, very cool because it’s a picture by the letters of opening the eyes and that word is aphaph. It is ayin peh ayin peh, aphaph, eyelids.
So those are a few words and letters that relate to the face and we can see just by these few examples how the language is something and the alphabet was something that Father wanted us to know and also understand because He made it so simple and easy enough for even a Paleo man or a Paleo woman to understand I think. I hope. Cool hair.
The letter peh and the word peh both have a lot of meanings in Hebrew, and some of those meanings are easiest to understand by seeing examples of them in real-life. So I’m going to show you a few random pictures with pehs in them and I’ll draw out the pehs for you.
This here is a cave and this is the peh of the cave.
This is a well and this is the peh of the well.
Here is a cup and here is its peh.
Each one of these jars has an opening at the top and each opening is the jar’s peh.
From a visual perspective, you can see that a peh forms the outer edge of an opening. And what we see in Hebrew is that the letter peh and the word peh are used to mean edge. The outer edge of the walled area in this picture here is its corner. And in Hebrew, the word for corner has a peh. That word is pinah.
This here is an illustration of the garments that Father told Moses to create for the High Priest of Israel. It’s called the Ephod. The collar, the opening where the head goes through is called the peh of the Ephod.
The letter peh and the word peh are also both used in Hebrew to mean portion. When Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit, in Hebrew, he actually asked for a double peh. If you’re wondering why a picture of a mouth is used to mean a portion of something, here’s a picture that should help explain. It’s a plate full of appetizers. Each piece of portion is a mouthful, perfectly sized for one peh. The word for mouthful of bread or anything that’s broken into bits in Hebrew is peh tav, pat.
So I ran across one really cool use of the word peh in the scriptures. It’s in the Life of Moses. So the back story is that Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ brother and sister are speaking against Moses.
Carlos: Saying they are Moses’ equal and they could lead as well.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Instead of …
Dawson: Yeah. “God speaks to us, not just Moses,” is what they are saying.
Carlos: Yes.
Dawson: So Father became angry and He came down and He spoke with them and He says – I’ll put the scripture on screen but something along the lines of, “If there is another – if there’s a prophet in Israel, I speak to him in visions and dreams and riddles but not dark sayings.”
Carlos: Dark sayings, yeah.
Dawson: Dark sayings. But not with Moses. With him, I speak peh el peh, mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles.
Carlos: Also he says, “Panim panim.”
Dawson: Yes. So in different instances throughout the scriptures, it’s written that Moses was able to speak with Father face to face, panim el panim. But in this one particular incident, he uses the phrase peh el peh. Any thoughts?
Carlos: Face to face, directly mouth to mouth He speaks to Moses. To other prophets, it’s through visions, through dreams and through the dark sayings of the prophets, which means mysterious, not dark.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: It just means that some things we will know later.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Well, that’s great. I still want to bring up piphiyot.
Dawson: Let’s go.
Carlos: Peh and a pheh.
Dawson: So there are two pronunciations of the letter peh.
Carlos: Peh also comes with a pheh.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: So there is a word for sword, and that is …
Dawson: Chereb.
Carlos: Chereb. Those of you who are practicing, chereb for sword. But a sword when it’s for battle, a special battle, a special type of warrior that would be a 2-edged sword. And a 2-edged sword is piphiyot. Piphiyot is a double-edged sword.
Dawson: Yeah, double peh.
Carlos: And a wonderful way to practice the pheh on the peh.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: There you go.
Dawson: So you found a place that uses it, in one of the psalms where it has to do with the end of days.
Carlos: Yes. Yes, it does. It would be Psalms 1:49. Let’s start with verse 5.
Dawson: Okay.
Carlos: That says, “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a 2-edged sword in their hand. As David is saying, “Let the high praises of God be in our mouth and the 2-edged sword in the hand,” a specialized sword.
Of course, that’s the power of the Holy Spirit that it helps us fight and overcome all the wiles of enemy. It’s part of the armor of God. Right?
And we also remember that for those of you who know this, what days these are. It’s the end of days. We will be seeing Father soon, and our Messiah. And in these days, anyone who tells you, you have a 2-edged sword and you’re to go fight? I’m telling you the truth. You go on your own accord. God is not raising an end times army to fight the beast. He will have us avoid the beast. He will take us to the wilderness and hide us, feed us, nourish us for a time, a times, and a half of times. It’s kind of like the rapture but it’s here on earth.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Where you’re protected by Father. And we know Michael gets up and he fights for Israel in these days. So those of you who think you’ve got to fight against the beast, there is no army of Jesus Christ in these days. He takes His people away because this is judgment on the earth, not a battle with the anti-Christ.
So peace unto you and remember, you have the power of the spirit. How do you say it?
Dawson: Piphiyot.
Carlos: Piphiyot.
Dawson: Palal, to pray. Speak to the shepherd. Pray.
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