Creation Week Part 1: Tohu v’Bohu, ELOHIM, and the Evening and Morning

Bible study about the Hebrew words in the first day of Creation (Genesis 1:1-5). Topics include the meaning of “formless and void,” how the Name ELOHIM speaks of GOD’s creation of everything, and how there was an evening and a morning before the sun was created.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:27 Tohu v’Bohu (Formless and Void)
9:15 The Name ELOHIM
14:36 What is Light?
16:38 What is Good (Tov)?
18:03 The First Yom (Day)
19:06 Why Father’s Days Start at Sundown
20:57 Ereb (Evening) and Boqer (Morning)
26:26 Recap of Creation Day 1
28:45 Wrap-up
31:05 Song: Father of Lights

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Transcript:

Dawson: Welcome everybody to Original Hebrew Bible Study. We are starting off with Creation Week and we’re going to take a look at Genesis 1 to start off with. Today we hope to answer questions such as what is the meaning of “tohu v’bohu,” the Hebrew words for formless and void? Is the name Elohim really plural? And how is it that even before the sun was created, there was an evening and a morning? This is the first of hopefully many Bible studies that we do here at Original Hebrew. So welcome and shalom. Hope you enjoy.

So in the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth and the earth was “tohu v’bohu,” which is translated as formless and void.

Carlos: Those of us learning Hebrew, we know that a “vav” many times means “and”. So tohu, “vav” and bohu.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: Now we’ve heard, I’ve heard people split a lot of hairs on these two words.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: But we’re looking at the Hebrew letters.

Dawson: Yes. So I’m going to head over to the chalkboard.

Carlos: Off to the chalkboard everybody. This is Original Hebrew’s studio where we try to bring you whatever we bring for updates.

Dawson: So the first word that we’re looking at is the Hebrew word “tohu,” which is translated as formless. So the first letter is the tav.

Carlos: Tav, a sign.

Dawson: The next letter is hey, which is a picture of a man, and this letter is often used in Hebrew words to mean behold, to reveal, look, life. Yeah.

Carlos: Mostly to behold.

Dawson: Yeah. And then the last letter in the word tohu is the letter vav. Now that is a picture of a peg which is something that joins things together. In the example of…

Carlos: Now, Father’s children, a heads up on this word.

Dawson: Okay.

Carlos: Almost never is a “vav” used in Father’s words.

Dawson: At the end.

Carlos: Especially at the end.

Dawson: Well, no, there’s vavs all the time.

Carlos: There’s vavs all the time, but not at the end.

Dawson: Not at the end, yeah.

Carlos: And not part of the word.

Dawson: Where you will typically see the letter vav is where it belongs, which is in the middle of words.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Because a vav, like I said, is something that joins things together. In the Old Testament, when Moses was constructing the tabernacle, he used vavs to attach the curtains to their pillars.

Carlos: I volunteered as a Jebusite in the Feast of Tabernacles.

Dawson: At a messianic …

Carlos: At a real messianic congregation. And I would hand the threads up and the ropes up to the priest and they would tie it.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And this is because it ties onto something, but this is describing something that has nothing to it.

Dawson: Yeah, which is interesting, which is interesting. Now, the next word that we’re going to look at has a vav at the end as well. But I do think that in a lot of cases, you will see the letter vav added as a vowel sound and it was added in later Hebrew.

One example of that is the name of King David. Sometimes you’ll see his name with a yod and sometimes without. So, in the original Hebrew there are no vowels. So we kind of have to make a judgment call here on whether or not this vav was added as a vowel sound. And based on the meaning of this word tohu, I don’t think it was added as a vowel, I think that this is part of the word and that this last letter helps us understand the meaning of the word, which is this word by the letters means nothing.

Carlos: Nothing.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Here be attention to nothing.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: If you have these two, just these two should tell you, behold, with strong look out.

Dawson: Yeah, so this word tohu is translated elsewhere in the Bible as vanity, as nothingness, as a waste land.

Carlos: Wilderness.

Dawson: Wilderness, a wasteland, an uninhabitable place.

Carlos: An abyss.

Dawson: We’ll get to that.

Carlos: We’ll get to that.

Dawson: Yeah, so completely useless. Like, Father says that people who create idols to sell are tohu. They are the most useless people on earth. Essentially, they’re doing nothing.

Carlos: Not good.

Dawson: Yeah, this word is nothingness. It’s a wasteland. And one very simple way of understanding what this word means and of remembering it in the context of Genesis 1 is you just add water. And what I mean by that is if we add the letter mem to this word, we have the word tehom, which means the deep.

Carlos: Abyss.

Dawson: The abyss. So basically, if you were to picture a deep abyss and then take away the water, then you would be left with something, an uninhabitable place.

Carlos: A chasm.

Dawson: Chasm.

Carlos: An abyss.

Dawson: Yeah, so that would be the tohu. Add the water and it’s tehom.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Now the beach is the yam, but watch out when you go off to the tehom, it’s deep.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So this is this tohu, an uninhabitable place, and Father also says that the earth was bohu.

Carlos: You got to love the paleo. It’s beautiful.

Dawson: Yeah. So this letter here is the Hebrew letter, beyt, which is a picture of the house.

Carlos: Holds.

Dawson: What’s that? Yes, it holds, it holds. Probably the most common translation for the letter beyt in Hebrew words is to mean in, and you’ll see it added as a prefix to mean in all throughout the Bible.

Carlos: So hear that Father’s children, His house, beholding a house. And nothing’s in it. Nothing is in it.

Dawson: So this is the letter B and this is the letter H. So, we’re going to say this means in, the inside actually. So, the same way you live inside your house, you use the letter beyt to mean inside in Hebrew words. Then the letter hey, which is very often used to mean reveal So when the inside of something is revealed, it’s essentially, it’s emptied out. There’s nothing in it. So earth was an uninhabitable and an empty place is another way of translating.

Carlos: Void and abyss.

Dawson: Void.

Carlos: Void, amen.

Dawson: Yeah, and darkness it says was over the face of the tehom which again is this uninhabitable place. Just add water.

Carlos: Amen. This is the beautiful thing about Paleo Hebrew. You can see what the word means. Father meant it to be this way.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Okay, yeah, so Father’s children, let’s try to describe what we’re looking at here. Uninhabitable.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: And it describes everything water and everything’s in the water?

Dawson: Yes, so that’s essentially the picture of creation.

Carlos: So every element, every molecule, everything is in the water already.

Dawson: In what we’re about to read as we go on through the Genesis story, we’re going to see that He’s going to form this formless earth and He’s going to stretch out the heavens. But at the beginning, it’s all described as tehom. It’s a deep, uninhabited, watery abyss. So some sort of collection of waters.

Carlos: I think brother – who goes into the belly of the whale, Brother Joel or …

Dawson: Jonah.

Carlos: Jonah, amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: We have a song about that. Describes the tehom. Amen. He felt like he was at tehom, the deepest part of the ocean, that he was done. So …

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: That’s nothing – tehom, the deep, the abyss.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So, like Peter says, he talks about how – I have the thing written down there.

Carlos: Well, Peter says the earth was formed out of water and through the water by the Word of God. 2 Peter 3:5.

Dawson: Yeah, so …

Carlos: Even Brother Pete, he’s still alive. To us he’s living. He’s among the living, not among the dead. So, Brother Peter, hello. Amen.

Dawson: I don’t know if they are able to watch.

Carlos: You know, maybe they’re not, but he’s alive somewhere.

Dawson: Yeah, we’ll see him one day.

Carlos: He’ll know we’re …

Dawson: He’s going to be a judge in the millennium.

Carlos: Amen. It says it was formed out of water and the spirit of Elohim was hovering over the face of the waters.

Dawson: Okay, now this brings us to our next awesome paleo word which is one of Father’s names and that is the name Elohim.

Carlos: The big thing we get here at Original Hebrew, is it singular or is it plural? And I think that’s what we’re going to bring up now because this is all of the – in the first day of creation.

Dawson: Okay, so this is the name Elohim. A lot of people, actually everybody that I’ve ever heard, will say that that His name is plural and that is because of this ending here, this yod, mem ending.

Carlos: Okay. So, we’ll go over this. El …

Dawson: You want to go over the letters?

Carlos: Oh yeah, El is already chief shepherd.

Dawson: So, yeah, another thing that Peter says is he calls the Lord our chief shepherd, which is beautifully pictured in the name El. And so the first word here is the alef, which is the picture of the bull is used all over the Bible.

Carlos: The main, the chief.

Dawson: The leader, the one in charge. It’s a picture of a bull and not an ox. So, an ox came later, it was domesticated, but I want you to think more about a powerful bull. If it was you versus an ox, you could potentially use that ox to plow the field.

Carlos: But not a bull.

Dawson: You versus a bull, you’re going to just get out of his way and let him do his thing.

Carlos: Not today.

Dawson: Yeah. So …

Carlos: And then we have shepherd, so chief shepherd.

Dawson: So this letter lamed is a picture of the shepherd’s staff and …

Carlos: It’s already Father’s name “El”.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So chief shepherd, okay. Now this I’m going to – since you wanted to talk …

Carlos: There are more Father’s names in this name.

Dawson: Yes, okay. So one of his names is El.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Right? Which means chief shepherd.

Carlos: And then there’s Elohe.

Dawson: Yes, another one of his names is Elohe also pronounced “Elohah”.

Carlos: That’s my favorite name.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: They’re all His names and Father loves them all. What we don’t know, we don’t know, but what’s ours, Father says is ours and those are His names He gave us for Him and I love Elohe. You pick your favorite.

Dawson: Yes. Okay. So, we don’t think this name is plural. I could give the reasons for that, but let’s just talk about the name I guess.

Carlos: Amen. Notice that none of these cases are more than one.

Dawson: What do you mean? No double letters?

Carlos: Only one chief. Only one Elohim.

Dawson: Right. Right. So just this name is Chief Shepherd. Chief Shepherd, you could say that this is the Chief Shepherd of life or the Chief Shepherd who is. So this picture of man is just used to mean existence or a chief shepherd of men.

Carlos: Chief shepherd, I know, a chief shepherd known, a chief shepherd worshipped. It’s his God. It’s my God. It’s my God. Thank YouYou’re with me every day.

Dawson: Man’s God. So the chief shepherd of men would be one way to look at it.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Now if you were to add the yod and the mem, this is the letter yod. It’s a picture of the arm, and the same way you use your arm to do things and to make things, this letter is used throughout the Bible and Hebrew words to mean to make. And this, as we talked about before is a picture of the waters. It’s the letter mem. So we have this Chief Shepherd of Men Who Made the Waters. This is His Creation name.

Carlos: In the beginning, the Chief Shepherd of Men that Created the Waters.

Dawson: He made the heavens and the earth and He’s hovering above the waters that He had just made.

Carlos: Looking at it through Father’s alphabet is amazing. So one more time. You want to go over for them?

Dawson: Sure. So in the beginning, Elohim, the Chief Shepherd of Men, Maker of the Waters, created the heavens and the earth.

Carlos: Amen. That is awesome.

Dawson: Yeah. One of the reasons that we know for sure that His name is not plural is because it says in the beginning He created. The word “bara” translates to he created not they created.

Carlos: Now as opposed to baru.

Dawson: If it was they created, then it would be baru.

Carlos: So it’s just bara.

Dawson: Bara.

Carlos: Not baru. It’s like a lot of people say immediately when they see the “im,” it’s plural. They just take it automatically. But, Father’s children not in this case. It’s bara not baru.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: No one else, just one.

Dawson: Hear, oh, Israel, the Lord our God is one.

Carlos: Shama Israel. Yeah.

Dawson: Yeah. Okay. So the next part in Genesis is it says, “And Elohim said, let there be light, and there was light.” Now there’s no sun yet, so any thoughts on what that light is?

Carlos: Well, His Spirit hovered over the waters and it was creation day one, amen?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So my thought on this is there’s just water and every element we had spoken already is in the water and now His spirit is hovering over the water and commanding all the elements to separate so that we have gold, silver.

Dawson: Pretty much everything, the building blocks of the creation. Yeah.

Carlos: If you’re a scientist, you would call it a primordial soup.

Dawson: Yeah, a lot of people don’t love that idea, but that is essentially what it sounds like, that He’s hovering over some sort of mass of waters that contains all the elements of creation, besides the things that He’s going to add in, which we’ll see later.

Carlos: Amen. Now, has He added light yet?

Dawson: So, at this point, it depends how you define light. So, what we would define light is like the sun and the moon the stars and the answer to that would be no, not yet. But when He says let there be light, it tells us in the New Testament that Yeshua’s light is the life of men. So, we exist through Him. So He – and one day, we will not need the sun. He will be our light.

Dawson: Yes. So, I think what He’s trying to say here is that He’s putting something or allowing something of Himself to be in the creation so that life can exist. However you would define that scientifically, I don’t know, but it is, it’s Him, you know.

Carlos: Amen. It’s just bara, not baru.

Dawson: He created it.

Carlos: Father created us and we are His children.

Dawson: Yes. And Elohim saw that the light was tov, was good. Now we’ve talked about the word tov before in our Paleo-Hebrew alphabet series, and it’s spelled tet-beyt.

Carlos: That’s it.

Dawson: Yeah. If you think of creation, essentially it’s a house, so it’s a dwelling. Father created the earth for us to dwell in and ultimately He wants to dwell with us in His own creation.

Carlos: Tov.

Dawson: Yeah, the beyt would be the creation, the house, the dwelling place and the letter tet is a picture of the container and so it’s often used in Hebrew words to mean to store and to contain, right? So anything that Father thought was worthy to be kept and to be stored in His creation, He called it good. It doesn’t necessarily mean that, you know …

Carlos: And He saw that it was good.

Dawson: He saw that it was good. I don’t know if spiders and what not are good. Okay? But like I don’t know if I like them.

Carlos: If Father created them and didn’t zap them?

Dawson: Yes, because He saw fit to store them, to contain them, have them contained in His creation. So whatever He found useful for whatever purpose He may have, He called it good, tov.

Carlos: Good enough for me. Amen.

Dawson: And Elohim separated the light from the darkness and He called the light day, yom.

Carlos: Another way to read this is the chief shepherd. Amen, creator of water.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Separated the elements.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: It’s Elohim. The letters mean something. This is Father’s writing, Father’s alphabet.

Dawson: Yes, and we see that in the word “yom” as well for day. It’s His language and I do believe that when He made the word yom, it was to commemorate the fact that it means day. This is day one. This is when He began His work. That’s the yod, the arm. He started His work on the waters.

Carlos: Amen. When He finished, that was day one.

Dawson: This is day one. Yeah.

Carlos: Amen. Wow.

Dawson: So Elohim called the light day and the darkness He called night and there was evening and there was morning the first day.

Carlos: Okay, now know this Father’s children. He starts with “and there was evening,” ereb, and then there was morning, boqer, and this was the first day.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Now the Gentiles have taught us their whole life that a day starts in the morning when the sun rises and it ends at night. And the night doesn’t count. Only the day counts.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: There’s 24 hours in the day, but you don’t count the night. The night’s something else. You need the day for a day and the night is a night. But to Father’s timing, the day starts at sundown in ereb.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. And it ends with the boqer, the sun going up as the second part of the day.

Dawson: Yeah, if you think about it, the entire Bible and the entire history that Father laid out for us, it begins as we just read in darkness. So, darkness was over the face of tehom. And at the very end it’s going to end in the City of God with His light, like Carlos was saying before. So it starts dark, it ends light. The day starts with night, it ends in the daytime. So, it all matches.

Carlos: And His creation starts with pure darkness and ends with 100% Father’s light.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. Hallelujah.

Dawson: Yeah, and you can actually – you can see that in the words, “ereb” and “boqer”. So, I’ll head over back to the chalkboard.

Carlos: Of course, we love looking at every letter here.

Dawson: I will show you that, yeah. Okay, so we’ve got the words, ereb and boqer, and there has not been the sun or the moon or any stars created yet. So, there’s no light as we think of it here on Earth.

Carlos: It’s just a Chief Shepherd, Creator of the Waters.

Dawson: Yes. And somehow there is already an evening and the morning. So I’m going to show you those two words and how they mean something different before the sun was created, when the sun was created, and when man is later created. So, the first one is ereb. This is the letter ayin, and it’s a picture of the eye. The letter resh, which is a picture of a man’s head. And the letter beyt, which is a picture of a house that we saw before. And this is the word for evening. And then the word for morning– ereb – is a picture of the house, the letter beyt. This is the letter quf, and it’s a picture of the sun at the horizon and another resh here, so a picture of the man’s head. So, boqer, ereb, evening and morning.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Now, before there’s a sun on day one, Father observed the beginning of creation. So, this letter, resh, is used …

Carlos: As the first, the main, the lead. Amen.

Dawson: Like you go headfirst into something. That’s how this letter, resh, is used. The beyt, as we talked about in the word tov, it’s a picture of His entire creation, this entire dwelling that He made for us. So He observed the beginning of His creation. And one of the things that He did on day one is He said, “Let there be light,” and so there was light. This letter, quf, I said it’s a picture of the sun and it’s used in Hebrew words to mean light and so with boqer, with morning we see that the creation’s light began. It had its beginning.

Carlos: It’s starting, it’s leading off, it’s leading off with the light.

Dawson: Yeah, ereb and boqer, evening and morning before the sun, Father observed the beginning of creation and the creation’s light began. Now, once the sun is created, then we can see the head go inside. And let me show you what I mean by that. I’ll do it down here. Let’s say this is the line of the horizon.

Carlos: We love the chalkboard here.

Dawson: Yes, and this is the east and this is the west. As we see it in the sky, the sun starts out from the east and it makes its journey through, you know, through the southern sky into the west.

Carlos: Tequphah.

Dawson: Yes, so this is actually this path that the sun follows in the visible sky is called its tequphah, which is the origin of this letter quf. But what happens at sunset is you can see the head of the sun going inside into the horizon. So that becomes the definition of ereb once we have the sun. And what happens with the sun in the morning is it’s best put by David, who says that the sun is like a bridegroom who comes out of his chamber and he begins running his race. So, it’s coming, Boqer, in the morning. Coming from its chamber, from the inside, is when the light begins.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Sounds good.

Dawson: Now, when you have the creation of men, then we see that in these words as well because what happens in the evening? Once you have men, you typically see men going home in the evening. In the days before electricity, which is most of the history of mankind, when the sun set, you know, you had already – you should have been on your way home already.

Carlos: Well, those of you who have been in the out there in the field having and doing it, there’s no there’s no electricity You’re heading back to the tents. You know, get back before it’s dark unless you got a good flashlight with you

Dawson: Yes, which they didn’t. Yeah.

Carlos: See to it you head back to the house, ereb.

Dawson: Yeah, and in the morning from this house, from the house that the people go into.

Carlos: Go out to the light and go forward in life.

Dawson: Yeah. So one of the meanings of this letter, because it’s a picture of the sun’s path through the sky. It has the meaning of to rise and to go forth like the sun goes forth from the east every morning. So, from his house goes forth the man.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So evening see the man going home, in the morning from his house goes forth the man.

Carlos: Yes.

Dawson: Isn’t that cool?

Carlos: I love Hebrew. It’s Father’s perfect way to communicate with His children.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: To recap what we went over. In the beginning, Elohim, the Chief Shepherd of Men, the Maker of Waters, created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was tohu and bohu, uninhabitable, empty, and the darkness was over the face of the tehom, the deep, the abyss, the uninhabitable place that was covered in water. And the spirit of Elohim was hovering over the face of the waters that He created. He’s hovering over the waters He just made, these waters. And they contained the elements of the earth that He is about to form and the heavens that He is about to stretch out.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Now how about that word for stretch?

Dawson: We’re going to get to that next.

Carlos: Amen. I love that word. So, I’ll let Dawson …

Dawson: So, and Elohim said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” He made it so that things could exist in what was initially uninhabitable. Because like Isaiah tells us, Father’s intention was always to make earth a dwelling place. So, he established the earth and He formed it so that it was no longer tohu. We read that in Isaiah 45. And God saw that the light was good, tov. It was worthy to be part of His beyt, of His creation. And God separated the light from the darkness and God called the light day, yom, when He first made and worked on the waters, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening, ereb. He observed the beginning of His creation, His beyt.

Carlos: And the boqer.

Dawson: Yeah, and there was morning, boqer, when the creation’s first light had its beginning and its origin.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah, the first day.

Carlos: The first day, the first sunrise when He said, “Let there be light,” and it rose and Father put it –

Dawson: Well, no sun, no sun. No sun yet.

Carlos: No sun yet.

Dawson: Yeah, but His light rose on the creation.

Carlos: There we have it.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: I love it.

Dawson: Yeah. So that’s it for day one.

Carlos: Day one. Father’s children, hope you’re enjoying this and I believe it’s time we tell Dawson it’s time for a Q&A and pop quiz.

Dawson: Okay. So what I’m thinking is we’re going to do these Bible studies now and we’re starting off with Creation Week and we’re hoping to get into other topics like – the ones that we have planned so far are creation, Gog Magog, and I wanted to talk about the City of God that’s coming and also about the Son of Man and who Yeshua is.

Carlos: What’s the name of the City of God coming?

Dawson: YHWH-Shammah. The Lord is there.

Carlos: The Lord is there, the Lord is here.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. I love that name. YHWH-Shammah.

Dawson: Yeah. So the idea with these Bible studies is to – we can go over a lot of different topics. And as we get questions, because we always get a lot of questions, we can just – we can add a little Q&A at the end of these Bible study videos. Yeah. So …

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: If you have a question, feel free to ask.

Carlos: If you have questions, Father’s children, we try to answer most of the questions that are sent to us.

Dawson: Yes, we do.

Carlos: Amen. And the names, it’s going to take quite a bit of time, but Dawson works on it.

Dawson: Yeah, yeah. We have another channel where we’ve gotten so many requests from viewers who want to see their name in Paleo-Hebrew, which I think – I mean I want to see my name in Paleo-Hebrew. So yeah, we’re happy to do that. But we’re very backed up.

Carlos: Very backed up.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: She hasn’t even done my name yet.

Dawson: Yeah, you’re about 52 down. You’re number 52 next, so we’ll get to that.

Carlos: Even Lucky wants her name.

Dawson: Yes, Lucky.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So …

Carlos: So I hope you enjoy this and we’ll see you in the next episode. Amen.

Dawson: For day two.

Carlos: Day two of creation.

Dawson: The stretching out.

Carlos: The stretching. Today was it’s bara.

Dawson: Bara. He created.

Carlos: Not Baru. He created. That’s it. No more. Not more than one. Just one. Amen.

Dawson: Yes. Okay. So, shalom everybody and shalom unto Jerusalem.

Carlos: Shalom to Jerusalem.

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