11. Kaph | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | Evidence YHVH invented Hebrew, Ancient Pirates, and more
YHVH’s authorship of the Hebrew language, understanding The Way we walk, ancient pirates, and how paleo Hebrew turned into today’s ABCs.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Joshua chapter 1, an intro to Kaph
1:06 Two hands in Hebrew
1:27 “Ha Derek” (The Way) and “Darak” (to tread)
2:23 Painful Kaph words
2:45 The Man of Sorrows
4:25 Kaph, the word
5:35 HE’s got you covered
6:40 Hand signals
7:19 Pirates can’t spell (how the ancient Hebrew alef-bet turned into today’s ABCs)
11:42 An ancient perspective on “Kathab” (Writing)
12:53 Word picture: “Yam” (Sea)
13:13 Word picture: “Lekh” (Walk/Go)
13:47 Word picture: Atonement
14:36 What the L
15:33 Song: “All Travelers”
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Transcript:
Narrator: Now after the death of Moses, the servant of THE LORD, it came to pass that THE LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister saying, “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise. Go over this Jordan thou and all these people unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.”
Dawson: Today’s letter is kaf and it’s a picture of the palm of the hand. This letter corresponds to the Hebrew word kaf, which means palm of the hand and also sole of the foot.
Last time around we talked about the letter yod which means hand in Hebrew. There’s also the letter kaf which means hand but it’s a specific part of the hand. It’s your palm. So, your yod has a kaf and your foot has a kaf.
It is with the kaf of your foot that you tread on the way. So, we see letter kaf in the Hebrew words for way and for tread. The way is “ha derek” and it comes from to tread, which is “darak”.
This same word “darak” is also translated as trample. If you’ve ever seen the ancient process of making wine, you’ve seen people step into huge vats of grapes with their bare feet and begin to trample and stomp and crush those grapes in order to release the liquid. This is just part of what the kaf does. It crushes.
So, a lot of the words that have to do with the sense of crushing have the letter kaf in it and it could be a physical crushing or even a mental crushing.
Narrator: “…And sayeth unto the disciples, ‘Sit ye here while I go and pray yonder,’ and HE took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. HE saith unto them, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.”
Dawson: That’s kaab, pain, and from pain comes more pain. Makob, translated as pain and sorrow.
I mentioned earlier that the letter kaf corresponds to the Hebrew word kaf and like the letter, the word kaf can be embedded into larger Hebrew words to add the meaning of hand, palm of hand, sole of foot and so forth.
This letter is called kaf and the sound it makes in Hebrew is the K sound. It can be a hard K as in “kuh” or a soft K as in “khuh”. This letter is called peh in Hebrew and the sound that it makes is the P sound and it also can be a hard or a soft sound. The hard sound is “puh” and the soft sound is “fuh”. Both of these letters are actually ancestors of modern English letters that we use today.
The Hebrew kaf became the Greek kappa and was used by the Romans to create the letter K. The Hebrew peh became the Greek pi and we use it in our Latin-based alphabet today as the letter P.
Kaf has several meanings in Hebrew words. We’ve already seen it used to mean to crush and also to mean hand or palm of hand or sole of foot. But one other common meaning of kaf is to cover. We see a pretty plain illustration of kaf being used as a cover in the story where Moses asks to see Father’s glory.
Father agrees but says that HE will first cover Moses with His kaf, with His hand. The word cover there is “sakak” in Hebrew, a word with two kafs. So HE will sakak Moses with His kaf. HE will cover him.
We also seek kaf as a cover in the word for wings, which is “kanaph” and in the Hebrew word for hide which is “kahad” and it’s also part of the Feast of Tabernacles. The covered shelters that the Israelites build every year for this feast are called “sukkot” which is a word with kaf.
One more note on how the kaf is used in Hebrew words. If you saw our last episode, you know that the letter yod is added to the end of words to mean my. Kaf performs a similar function and it’s added to the end of words to mean your. So this is my (Dawson puts her arm in front of her) and this is your (Dawson puts her hand out toward the camera). It’s paleo. It’s awesome.
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(Walking on the sand)
Lisa: Hey, that’s paleo. What does that say?
Dawson: Where?
Lisa: Right there.
Dawson: Oh, that’s paleo for “watch out.”
Lisa: Oh, I wonder what HE’s warning us of.
Dawson: Let’s see. Let’s keep going.
Lisa: Oh, there’s more paleo over here.
Dawson: It looks like a yod.
Lisa: Yeah.
Dawson: Yam…Am. The sea peoples.
Lisa: Watch out, the sea peoples..
Dawson: Let’s get out of here!
Lisa: OK, let’s go.
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Carlos: So, looking at the Mediterranean, when we see the Eastern Mediterranean, the place they called Phoenicia where the Phoenicians lived. These were Canaanite people living there and they had their own script. You can see here from Ugarit it was going all the way down.
Now when the – what you call Greek islands, Greek empires collapsed, due to piracy, what they call the sea people came and destroyed city after city after city. They are the ones credited with destroying the Hittite empire and ending the kingly line. The sea people are also credited with genociding the Canaanite nations along the coast.
Now when you see the script from the Canaanites, it looks like this. The stone from Ugarit was the last message sent in Canaanite language. To the king we presume of Egypt since everything else was gone and after that, there was no more Canaanite writing anywhere. That was the end of it. That was what they called the Dark Ages. When writing appears again, it is the Greek pirates that have taken over Phoenicia. There’s no longer Canaanites there.
You can read in the scriptures that they bared no king over them and each man had his own sword and there was no king to shame them. However, they were wild men of the sea, pirates, sea people and they didn’t know how to write and they lost the script.
Here is their script. One is Minoan which they haven’t broke the code to read yet and the other one is Greek Linear B. They had their own writing. They had their own kings. When they fell as a civilization, they went and they colonized the land of Phoenicia and there’s no longer anyone that can read and write and who did they make friends with? They were brothers with the Israelites and the Israelites showed them their script and the Phoenicians took it all through the Mediterranean.
So, it looks like Etruscan. It looks like Carthaginian. It looks like from the isles of Greece. So that’s where you got the Hebrew alphabet spread throughout all the Greek people and that’s where you get the Greek alphabet and the Roman alphabet and what you call the European alphabet.
You could probably thank the sea people or the pirate kingdoms for the spread of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Dawson: The Hebrew word for writing is kathab. By the letters, it’s a picture of your hand, your kaf marking the inside of something. In ancient times, they made impressions in rocks and clay or used ink which could be absorbed into things like papyrus or animal skins which we call parchment.
Most teach that language and kathab writing were products of evolution and mankind’s ingenuity. But in the first pages of Genesis, we see a Creator speaking in a single language to the men and women that HE had created and we see that they were built and born with an ability to understand this language.
In Exodus we see evidence that GOD has his own writing system. So, HE has authored languages and HE is clearly able to write. I don’t know what writing system HE uses up there but the evidence that HE handcrafted the Hebrew language and alphabet for us down here piles up the more you study this language.
It’s written that HE called the sea “yam”. That’s a yod and a mem. HE could have called it anything but HE named it a word which in Hebrew has a symbol for water.
There’s also the Hebrew word lekh which means go and walk. Lekh is a picture of a staff and a hand, a kaf, and we see people being told to lek, to go all throughout scriptures. Anytime you see the word walk, the root word is lek. Moses was even told at one point to take his rod in his hand and go, which is a beautiful illustration of the word lekh.
Another example of how this language was designed by GOD is in the word for atonement. The Hebrew words for atonement are “kaphar” and “kippur”. That’s kippur as in Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.
Both are spelled kaf, peh, resh. The first two letters represent the full word kaf which is the hand and the resh represents a head. So, by the pictures, kippur is a hand and a head and on Yom Kippur, the priest lays hands on the head of a goat and makes atonement for Israel. This imagery is used for atonement throughout the scriptures. The laying on of hands onto the head of an animal in order to make kaphar.
Carlos: Hey stay there. You’re about to jack up some writing places. Like what’s our next letter right there?
Dawson: Kaf.
Carlos: Kaf?
Dawson: Kaf.
Carlos: Kaf right there. The circle with the line?
Dawson: Happy face. The hand.
Carlos: The hand. Let’s do it. (draws the word “kal” using a paleo K but an aramaic L)
Dawson: That’s Aramaic.
[Laughter]
Carlos: I threw a Babylonian L!
Dawson: Ah, that looks better. I shouldn’t laugh though. Not sure if anyone caught this, but I misspelled “sea peoples” earlier. See you guys. Have a safe trip on ha derek.
[Music]
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