4. Dalet | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | The Glory of Kings, Sea Peoples, Nimrod, and more
In this episode, we discuss the letter Dalet in Hebrew, the Sea Peoples, and how the name Nimrod evolved from the Hebrew words for “bitter” and “rebel.”
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Timestamps:
0:00 How the letter Dalet is used in Hebrew
0:47 The reason for the letter shape
1:45 Why we love the Hebrew alphabet
2:32 A-G Recap
2:53 Animals with the letter Dalet
3:28 Sea Peoples and the Hebrew alphabet
7:38 YASHUA, The Door
8:23 Days of Peleg
9:07 The bitter rebel Nimrod
11:34 My apologies in advance…
12:17 Song: “The Song of Abraham”
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Transcript:
Dawson: Today’s episode is about the letter dalet and it’s a picture of a door and just as a door is something that you move in and out of, the letter itself is used to represent movement. It’s also used to represent a door or gates and anything which hangs down and is low or is lowly. It’s a picture of a flap essentially that was used to cover the entrance to a shepherder’s tent, something like this [drawing].
Carlos: You have a beyt and the beyt needs a door. We might make it a more square door but the reason it’s in such a shape back in those days is typically out in the land of Canaan, they had a tent and the entrance to the tent is usually shaped in the type of the tent, then you put a nice flap to close it from the wind and you had to tie it down. You could have a wall around the city that had a door. It wouldn’t matter. Dalet, dalet, dalet, door.
Dawson: The more of these letters that you learn, the more of Father’s words you can understand. Now of course you can understand them in English just fine without ever having to study this alphabet. But if there’s anything that exists that helps me to understand Father better, I want to know it.
It’s actually written that it’s the glory of Elohim to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search out a matter and if you look at that phrase in Hebrew, what it’s actually saying is it’s the glory of Elohim to conceal a word and the glory of kings to search out a word and that’s one reason that we love this alphabet so much because it allows us to search out what Father was thinking.
So far we’ve learned the alef, which is the bull, and a symbol for strength and leadership. We’ve learned the beyt which is a house and could mean a house or in or inside or family and we’ve learned gimmel, which is a foot and can mean to lift or to walk or to gather. So, with today’s letter dalet, there’s a new word. Actually there’s a few new words that you can start putting together and one of them is “dag”.
“Dag” is a picture of a moving foot and in Hebrew, this is the word for “fish”. Another word that we can put together is “dov” and this is the word for an animal which has a low house and in Hebrew this is the word for a “bear”.
Carlos: So note on the dalet. So our people were from Haran and in Haran, it was the land of the Hittites. You could say it was a land that the Hittites fought for, the Assyrian fought for and the Mari fought for. In those days, there was a lot of chaos. The one place that seemed to do really good business no matter what was Tyre, Sidon and Dor. These were port cities that would bring in supplies or send out goods. Now these people had been conquered over and over by raiders, by “marad”.
Dawson: Marauders?
Carlos: Yeah, they call it marauders. Well, marads and they have a whole section on this called the “sea people”. They attacked at a certain time but really once they invented the trireme, nations in the water were stronger than nations on land. They just controlled everything and you always had attacks from the sea.
So, these people, they have one contact and that was a section of Sidon, Dor and Tyre, just north of Israel and the Sidonians were like brothers unto Israel. So, they took our alphabet and they used it wisely and they did business with it and Dan is also among the people that are on the ocean and Zebulun was also a traveler of the ocean, they say. Issachar is mentioned.
So, they’re using the paleo Hebrew alphabet and the Phoenicians get a hold of it. Of course, they got to improve it. Now Phoenicians is not necessarily people. It’s Sidonians, Dorians. There’s another set there. What do they call it? Oh, well, we will get it later but those people took on the alphabet and they spread it throughout the Mediterranean and you find Etruscans, the people just north of Rome when Rome was settled. Etruscans to the north. Take a look at their alefbet.
Dawson: Alefbet.
Carlos: I say alefbet. I never say alpha because that’s Greek. It strikes my nerve when someone says alpha.
Dawson: Alefbet.
Carlos: Alefbet. Now take a look at the Etruscans’ alefbet. It’s just same as the Phoenicians in the – and I got a feeling if we look at Carthaginians, it will be really close as well.
Dawson: Very similar to what Hezekiah was using at the time in Israel.
Carlos: Exactly. So, they took that writing because their countries were destroyed over and over and over until finally some sea people won, like the Carthaginians won, the sea wars and they ruled the sea for a couple of hundred years. Then when Carthage fell, the biggest raiders out there were the Phoenicians and that’s who the Romans fought a lot. But they took that alphabet and spread it out. Even the Romans took it. The Greeks took it. The Romans took it. The Carthaginians took it. The Etruscans took it and that’s how the Hebrew alefbet was spread throughout the Mediterranean and even onto America. The roots are in Hebrew. So Hebrew is the door to the world being able to spell.
Dawson: Very cool.
Carlos: The dalet.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Through Hebrew, if you enter that dalet, the door, writing in the West became to be known.
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Dawson: Days of Peleg.
Carlos: The urban legend of Peleg.
Dawson: Yes. Noah came out of the flood with his son Shem. His son Shem had a son Arphaxad two or three years after the flood. From that point, the men started having their sons in their 30s. So if you look at the generation of Nimrod, it would be the generation of Salah and when the Tower of Babel happened, in the days of Peleg who was named after the division that came on the earth, it’s only about 100 years after the flood. So, it didn’t take very long for them to jack it all up again. That’s the mem, the sign of the waters, many.
Carlos: Resh, marah, bitter. If you put a D at the end, you put a D, it’s “marad”. You put the “nun”. That will be “nun marad,” Nimrod. The first one to proclaim himself a half-man, half-god. By adding the nun, he’s saying he was not only a rebel but a rebel endowed by gods and he was at the door of the rebels. He was the main rebel. When you go to the place where the rebels are held, Nimrod will be at the door by adding the “nun” in front. Dalet.
Dawson: A sign of authority back in the days was like the blessing that he gave to Abraham. May your offsprings possess the gates of their enemies.
Carlos: Yes. Whoever possesses the gates was in charge and that also states that they possessed the gates with some kind of godly authority be it false or whatever. But they claimed. He was self-proclaimed half-man, half-god and the first rebel and that’s when Father struck mankind in the days of Peleg and they went off and got the nations with their own language.
Nimrod the rebel was not just a rebel. That made him the all-time rebel. That would be – we need a “hey” here for “ha,” which means “the,” and then na-marad. The rebel. Not just rebel, not just holy rebel from false gods but the holy rebel that controls the gate. Na-marad. This is paleo.
Dawson: OK. So today’s letter is dalet and the reason you’re not looking at a picture of a door right now is because we’re out of doors. We’re outdoors.
Today’s letter is dalet and we are filming from outdoors. Get it?
Dawson 2: Knock-knock.
Lisa: Who’s there?
Dawson 2: Cash.
Dawson: Cashew?
Lisa 2: Ha-ha-ha!
Dawson: I didn’t think the jokes would work either. See you guys next week when we take a closer look at the letter “hey”.
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