19. Quph | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | HE Raises the Dead, YASHUA Our Hope, a Heavenly Psalm, and more
Hosea’s third day prophecy, the redemption of Israel, how we are raised to life with YASHUA, and how one word in Paleo Hebrew says it all.
In this episode, we also take a look at King David’s picture of Father’s skies, and see how Carlos does on his first Paleo Pop Quiz.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Reading Psalm 19
1:59 How David describes the morning (“boqer”)
2:58 Father’s light is greater than the sun
3:42 Word study: Qets (end)
4:40 Word study: Tequphah (the sun’s path)
5:15 Word study: Qadar (dark)
6:08 How the Hebrew letter Quph became our English letter Q
7:31 Uses of the letter Quph in Hebrew
8:50 How the word Qum is used in the Scriptures to mean raise and establish
12:26 Another use for “Tequphah”
13:53 Pop Quiz: testing Carlos’ Paleo skills
17:18 The Hope of Resurrection
25:37 Song: New
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Transcript:
Dawson: It’s written that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament tells of the works of His hands. One of the biggest and brightest things that Father created in the heavens is pictured in today’s letter, Quph.
The letter quph in the original Hebrew alphabet was a picture of the sun at the horizon, and the same way that the sun breaks forth and rises from the horizon each morning, the letter quph is used in Hebrew words to mean things like break forth and rise.
Right about now, I think we could all use a little bit of sunshine so let’s get started with a Psalm that King David wrote. In this Psalm, he gives us a brilliant picture of Father’s light.
Lisa: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handy work.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”
Dawson: So in that Psalm that you just read for us, David describes the sun. He says it’s like a bridegroom coming out of a chamber.
Lisa: Right. Yeah.
Dawson: And that’s actually a pretty good picture for the word “morning.”
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: So the word “morning” is boqer.
Lisa: Boqer.
Dawson: It’s beyt, quph, resh. So beyt is the picture of the house.
Lisa: House, right.
Dawson: The quph is the sun at the horizon.
Lisa: The tequphah.
Dawson: Well, the tequphah we are going to get to in a little bit.
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: And then resh is the head.
Lisa: The head, right.
Dawson: So he says it’s like a bridegroom.
Lisa: Right.
Dawson: The sun is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber.
Lisa: Right. Okay.
Dawson: So this is the Hebrew word for morning.
Lisa: Oh, cool! Boqer. How do you say good morning again?
Dawson: Boker tov.
Lisa: Tov. Good.
Dawson: Yup.
In the Tsade episode, I talked about how the word “righteousness” which is tsadiq in Hebrew, how in that word, Father uses the letter quph to represent His light.
Lisa: Right.
Dawson: God is not the sun. The sun is something He created. But He does use the sun to help us understand what He is like.
Lisa: Right. Exactly. Yeah, because we can’t imagine what His light actually is.
Dawson: Right.
Lisa: But we could relate to the sun.
Dawson: We can relate to the sun.
Lisa: Oh, yeah.
Dawson: So yeah, so even Yashua calls himself the Bright Morning Star and we can see Him use the symbol of quph to put Himself in a word for us to understand something.
Continuing with the Psalm that you read, David also – he says that the going forth of the sun is from one end of the heaven and his circuit unto the other, right? So if you were to look at the horizon line, let’s say that this is the east where the sun rises and the west where it sets, so the word “end” is actually qets and the letters are quph tsade.
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: So tsade is that picture of the man lying down. So qets is a picture of where the sun lies down, and it lies down at the horizon in the east.
Lisa: At the horizon, you’re right.
Dawson: And here on the other side is the other qets. David says that the sun is going forth is from one qets to the other qets. Isn’t that cool?
Lisa: Nice. I like that.
Dawson: And the path that the sun travels, David calls the tequphah.
Lisa: Tequphah.
Dawson: So the root word for the tequphah is today’s letter, which is quph. So it makes sort of like an arch-like shape in the sky as it’s going from one qets to the other qets.
Lisa: Right. Right.
Dawson: And this arch-like, the semi-circle, if you look at it, if you kind of zoom out it just sort of looks like a big quph.
Lisa: Oh, yeah. You’re right. That is so cool.
Dawson: Yeah. One more word in this picture of Father’s heavens.
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: As the sun goes down like towards the end of the day, it starts getting dark, right? The Hebrew word for dark is qadar.
Lisa: Qadar. Okay.
Dawson: And that’s quph dalet resh.
Lisa: Resh. Okay.
Dawson: So the word qadar is basically a picture of the sun lowering its head.
Lisa: Oh, wow! Look at that.
Dawson: Yes. So the letter dalet is used all over Hebrew to mean low and down and it’s the tent flap that hangs down off a tent.
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: So the sun lowers its head and it gets dark.
Lisa: Right. Right. Yeah.
Dawson: Pretty simple stuff.
Lisa: And then we lower our heads to go to sleep.
Dawson: Yes. Yes. That is one of the best parts of the day.
Lisa: Exactly.
Dawson: By the time the Phoenicians borrowed the Ancient Hebrew alphabet and spread it around the Western world, the letter quph had been turned on its side. The Greeks called it qoppa and they came to see the letter as unnecessary since it makes the same qu sound in words as the kaph, which they called kappa.
Before qoppa became Greek history, the Greeks passed it on to the Etruscans in Ancient Italy where eventually qoppa aka quph became our Latin letter Q.
Carlos: Okay. So let’s try a few uses for Father’s letter quph. Mainly when we see in the Strong’s Dictionary or the Bible, a lot of it has to do with rising, with balancing. Let’s give a little example here of the trajectory of the sun. We had just gone over how it looks like, the horizon.
Dawson: The tequphah.
Carlos: And tequphah. So we got the tav, very strong, the quph, the balance in the middle because it’s also for balance and establishing, and then the peh which is where it falls into the entrance, and then the hey, established for all time from Father. So ta-quph-ah.
In this case, I see the letter is like the equilibrium. It’s going up and this is the trajectory and the tequphah will always, always follow it. Thanks to the quph. It’s always there to balance the word out. It helps it out.
So let’s take a look at the word qum with the letter quph in it and Cain talked with Abel, his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain qum up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. He rose up. They used the letter quph for that.
Again, let’s look at Genesis 6:18. We love the Old Testament. We love the new one too, but we love the old. “But with thee, I will qum my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, thy sons, thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.”
So notice to establish, I will qum.
Dawson: Nice.
Carlos: Very nice. And then he goes, Genesis 9:9, “Behold, I will qum my covenant with you and with your seed after you.”
Praise Father for that. That’s why we are here today.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Thanks to that covenant. Another way, I mean learning how to use the letter quph. In Genesis 13:17, “Qum and walk through the land.” Arise. They use word the qum for arise there. So I like to say this, qum and lekh.Lekh means walk. We love the word lekh.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Let’s go to Genesis 17:17, “And I will qum my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee and their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.”
He established. He qum. He raised up. He put in position he backed it up. I mean it’s – I love that word, qum.
Dawson: Yeah, qum.
Carlos: It’s a start. It’s an establishment. It equalizes. It sets in place. It stays there once it’s qum. He used – he says, “I will qum.” That’s the covenant He made forever.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: So let’s try another one, Genesis 17:21, “But my covenant will I qum with Isaac, whichSarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in next year.”
So it goes to show you how it uses the letter quph as a good starting point or as a good set point. It’s used as a starting point in boqer, in the starting the day. But in midday, when you look up and I love the word, tequphah.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: It’s like, “There it is! It’s midday.” It establishes in the middle. And at the end, it’s a what? It’s a qed? What do you call it?
Dawson: Qets.
Carlos: Qets.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: It establishes at the end too. It’s like a leveling compass, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end, the qets.
Dawson: The other use for the word tequphah is to mean the turning of a year. So at the time when Father has His fall feasts, what we call the fall feasts, so Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur and Sukkot. That happens at the tequphah of the year.
Carlos: Look at that. I love the word tequ. We go outside and just scream it and point in the air and people look up, tequphah! They will look up. What is it? Tequphah!
Dawson: Try it.
Carlos: Try it. They all look up. And then they ask you what it is, we tell them what it means in Hebrew. So great conversation piece. tequphah! There you go, folks. That’s why I had to say it. I love it because it’s a letter that helps establish and helps equilibrium and it helps watch from beginning, in the middle, when you use Father’s alphabet. It helps you establish that it’s rising. It helps you establish that it’s set in the middle in equilibrium and that it always set where it goes down in its peh. Tequphah. Always has its — it’s entrance or it’s exit. It’s doesn’t matter.
Dawson: Nice.
Carlos: Those of you who have studied peh, you’ll know what we mean by the opening. It goes right into his opening – it comes out of his opening. It goes into its opening.
Dawson: Yup, that’s very true.
Carlos: I mean Father’s alphabet works perfect.
Dawson: Yeah. Okay. So I’ve got a pop quiz for you if you’re down.
Carlos: Here we go.
Dawson: So in Hebrew, if you are just listening to Hebrew and you’re not actually reading it, it’s very easy to get the letters quph and kaph confused because they make the exact same sound in words. So you are a Paleo Hebrew expert.
Carlos: Wow!
Dawson: So, I thought I would just give you a couple of random words. I’ll just speak them out loud and based on the meanings of the words, you tell me is it a quph in that word or is it a kaph.
Carlos: Bring it.
Dawson: Okay. So the first one is the word for “east” which in Hebrew is qadim. Is it a quph or a kaph?
Carlos: Quph.
Dawson: You got it.
Carlos: Period. For the rising.
Dawson: We should maybe recap the meanings of kaph.
Carlos: Kaph is smashing, pressing.
Dawson: Okay. So next one.
Carlos: See how easy it is?
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: We had just gone over the rising. So there we go.
Dawson: Next one is the Hebrew word for footstool which is kebesh. Quph or kaph?
Carlos: Kebesh. That’s definitely kaph.
Dawson: You got it.
Carlos: That’s to press down. If we remember our kaph video, press, smash, push down …
Dawson: Crush.
Carlos: It’s too easy.
Dawson: Grip, yeah. I kind of gave away the next one. But it’s the word …
Carlos: Here at Original Hebrew, we make it easy, right?
Dawson: Yeah. So the next word is crush, which in Hebrew is dak.
Carlos: Okay. That straight is kaph right there.
Dawson: Kaph. You got it.
Carlos: That is kaph.
Dawson: Okay. Let’s make this a little harder.
Carlos: Uh-uh. Here we go.
Dawson: The next word is the Hebrew word for summer which is …
Carlos: Definitely quph.
Dawson: … qayits.
Carlos: Because that’s midyear equilibrium.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Absolutely.
Dawson: Yes. You got it. And let’s see, the word for cover in Hebrew is kasah.
Carlos: Kaph.
Dawson: You got it. All right. Okay, one more.
Carlos: It’s too easy.
Dawson: One more. One more. The Hebrew word for to laugh is tsachaq. And that’s actually the root word for Isaac’s name. Is it a quph or kaph? Tsachaq. It’s very hard to say.
Carlos: Tsachaq?
Dawson: It’s tsade chet quph.
Carlos: I’m going to say quph.
Dawson: Ugh! Did I just say it’s tsade chet quph?
Carlos: She just said quph so I said I’m going to say it’s quph.
Dawson: I think you got it one second …
Carlos: I did.
Dawson: Yeah. So one of the uses of letter quph is a bursting forth like the sun kind of breaks forth and burst forth…
Carlos: The air is compressed.
Dawson: Yes. So when you laugh, it’s like a bursting forth.
Carlos: It’s tsachaq. It caused me to laugh. Hey, that’s great. We got to try more of these pop quizzes.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: All right, everybody. Hope you’re enjoying this. And in days like this, shalom unto Jerusalem. Now, Dawson has more for you.
Dawson: A lot of people ask, “Where can we find the resurrection in the Old Testament?” The answer is in a word that we looked at earlier, qum, which means to rise. If you look at a Hebrew translation of the New Testament, one word that you will see for the resurrection is tequmat, the rising. The root word here is qum. Yashua came to do this so that on the third day He could qum. Rise.
I would like to shed a little bit of Father’s light on what actually happened on that third day. And in order to do this, I’ll need to tell you a story about Ancient Israel.
When God delivered Israel out of Egypt and Moses went up to Mount Sinai, the people created a golden calf which they worshipped as if this calf was the god that had delivered them out of Egypt. When Moses came down from the mountain, there was great death and destruction in the camp because of this.
Most people know that story. But centuries later, there were more golden calves in Israel. It’s written that because of idolatry, Father took away ten tribes from Solomon and gave them to Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam. Father split the kingdom of Israel into two houses, the House of Judah in the South and the House of Israel in the North.
The law was that three times a year, all Israel had to go to Jerusalem which was in the House of Judah’s land. So King Jeroboam became worried. He figured that when his ten tribes went to attend the feast down South, they would rejoin themselves with the House of Judah and leave him without a kingdom.
And so, he convinced the House of Israel that going to the temple in Jerusalem wasn’t necessary. He made them two golden calves and he told them, “These are the gods who delivered you out of Egypt.” The House of Israel worshipped those golden calves until the day that Father removed them from His land.
The same way our Righteous God had to judge the Israelites for worshipping the calf in the wilderness, He also had to judge the House of Israel for this great sin and for all of the other sins they had committed.
Through the Prophet Hosea, Father told the House of Israel that when they offended in Baal, that is in idol worship, they died. To them and to the House of Judah who also sinned, Father said that their judgment would be that He would tear them to pieces as a lion tears its prey and devours it.
But Father also said that He would redeem Israel from death and the grave. To redeem in Hebrew is padah, peh dalet hey, to open the door to life. All of this is the background for Hosea’s famous third day qum prophecy which reads:
“Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn,” this is Father tearing Israel just as He said, as a lion tears. And this word “tear” here in Hebrew is the same one that Jacob uses when his sons bring him the bloody coat of Joseph. Jacob assumes that Joseph had been torn to pieces by wild beast and is therefore dead.
“He hath torn,” Josiah says, “and He will heal us; He hath smitten,” the word “smitten” in Hebrew is the same word that Father uses to describe what He did to all the people in the flood, that is He smote them so that they died.
The point I’m stressing here is that Hosea is not speaking of some light wound. He is speaking of Israel’s death. And it’s an important point because if we don’t understand that Israel was dead, it’s hard to fully understand the next part where Israel is raised to life.
“He hath smitten,” Josia says, “and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us.” The word for revive is to live, chayah. He will revive us.
“And in the third day,” He will qum us, raise us up and we shall live in his sight.”
This Hosea prophecy is the context for what the man of God says when he sees Messiah coming into the temple as a child. He speaks in the spirit and he says to Joseph and Mary, “This child is appointed for the fall and qum of many in Israel.”
Part of Yashua’s mission was to raise up the lost sheep of the House of Israel who were torn, smitten, and dead. The scriptures say that saving Israel was not enough for our King. Father also wanted to open the door of the kingdom to the nations who were dead in Baal and also dead in many other gods.
So when third day comes, Resurrection Day, Qum Day, this is Yashua raising not only himself but also the dead in Israel who were torn from transgression and also the dead of the nations who would have faith in His name. This is Him raising us and giving us a chance to live before His sight.
We talked earlier about how the word qum mean rise, but also how it means to stand up and establish. The life that we are raised to is one in which we are established with Yashua and by Yashua as a son or as a daughter of the same Father. We are already raised to that life, and we also wait for the day when even our flesh is raised with Him.
Now, here is the beauty of Father’s perfect language. He gives us this whole story in one simple, beautiful Paleo Hebrew word. That word is qavah, quf vav hey, qavah. Rise and live. Rise with Him. This is what we wait for and this is the basis of our hope. We rise together with Yashua. Qavah, to wait, to hope.
Tiqvah, hope. Miqveh, hope. Yashua, hope.
And with that bit of good news, the sun has set on our episode on the Hebrew letter quph. To those who are our brothers and our sisters, in Yashua, Hamashiach, our Messiah, we hope to see you soon. See you guys.
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