21. Shin | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | Power to Save, Power to Destroy, His Almighty Name, and more
The letter shin is found in some of the most destructive and some of the most peaceful words in the Hebrew language. In this episode, we discuss THE ALMIGHTY’s power to destroy and His power to save.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:51 The Power to Destroy
1:35 Saved on Passover
2:12 EL SHADDAI protects His people
3:14 Discussing the lost tribes of Israel and the word shama
6:08 The word “shachat” (destruction) in Hebrew
6:40 Noah saved from the destruction of the Flood
10:34 The word “shem” (name) in Hebrew
11:32 The word “shama” (listen) in Hebrew
11:51 Yasha, the root word for YASHUA’s name
13:17 Studying Isaiah 59:20 and the Hebrew word for repentance (“shub”)
14:13 The difference between sin, iniquity, and transgression
17:02 HE blots out our transgressions
17:41 Song: Remember Your Mercies
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Transcript:
Dawson: Today’s letter is shin, and this is one Hebrew letter you can really sink your teeth into. We find the letter shin in some of the most peaceful words in the Hebrew language like shabbat and shalom, and also in some of the most destructive words in Hebrew like the words for desolation and ruin.
It’s written that our God is able to save, yasha, and to destroy, shamad. It is this full spectrum of Father’s power that we hope to cover in today’s episode. So buckle up. We are going to start off with the more bitey side of shin.
In the Original Hebrew alphabet, the letter shin was a picture of teeth. And one common meaning of the letter shin in Hebrew words is to destroy, which makes sense if you think about what Father designed teeth to do. They crush, they grind things down, they tear, and they tend to destroy whatever tasty thing you put in front of them.
These are just a few examples of Hebrew words where the letter shin is used to represent destructive power. We find this one particular word shachat a few times in the Passover story in Exodus. When Father struck Egypt with the plague of the firstborn, he passed over the Israelites who had put the blood of a lamb on to their doors as He had instructed. So the plague did not shachat them. It didn’t destroy them because Father didn’t allow the mashachet, the destroyer, to enter into their houses.
For Father’s children, He gives us mercy, salvation, and His mighty protection. But for the enemies who try to consume His children, it’s written that the day of the Lord is as the shad of El Shaddai. That is, it’s as the destruction of the almighty. Father’s teeth after all are much bigger and much bitier than the teeth of the enemy.
Carlos: Wow! This really is a bitey video. I feel like I got bit, scratched, fed to the lions. I go, “Here we go as Christians again, Christians versus lions in the arena.”
Dawson: Guess who wins and gets delivered?
Carlos: Yeah. When the lion roars, he shaag.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: So shows his teeth I guess. So let’s get into the shin. We are already close to tav.
Dawson: Yes, we are close to end of the Paleo Hebrew alphabet, Father’s alphabet.
Carlos: Many around the world are – have been really learning I guess, right?
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: And we remind you again that we don’t ask for offerings, neither do we have a method of accepting them. Everything we do is given to us from Father so we cannot charge for that.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Now, as lost tribes, He is putting everyone back together bit by bit, bone by bone, by muscle – a little bit of muscle here, a little – then the tendons then the flesh. And then he puts life into us. So little by little, you learn you’re from the 10 tribes.
Now, it has to come to pass. He says He gathers them at the end of days. There are mighty people each tribe, all the lost tribes of Israel, all of Jacob, and they march in through their own gate. Judah who has never been lost will march through their gate and Zebulun will march through their gate.
So, we want to hear the full word of Father and that’s the word to hear, shama. Now, shama is a shin and a mem. Now again, it helps to know Hebrew because the same word shama which means hear is also the same word for shem, the same two letters.
Dawson: Yes. So the root for shama is shem, which is the name of Noah’s son and also name, the word name.
Carlos: So, isn’t that amazing? So you need to know your Bible. Read what’s before and read what’s after because you got the same two sha and a ma here for shama and for shem.
Dawson: Yeah. Well, shama has got the ayin at the end which is pay attention.
Carlos: Pay attention.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Listen, now, and so forth. Another one we look at is Strong’s, the H7843, shachat. He goes, “I will shachat them.” That’s the teeth, the wall, and the tav. It’s like bit, stop, and poh! Might. Yeah. That’s a strong one there.
If we go to Genesis 6:7, it goes, “And the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both and man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.’”
Now, there’s that word destroy. We just read shachat is destroy.
Dawson: It’s one word for destroy.
Carlos: But there are different types of destruction.
Dawson: True.
Carlos: Now, this destroy is machah. Machah. Now, machah is not just destroy but to wipe away, to blot out like if Father would have done a machah, we wouldn’t be here. But praise the Lord and praise Yashua for us being here today.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Amen. Noah found grace in the ayin of Father, of the Lord.
So instead of that, we will go down. He says, “And God said unto Noah, ‘The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will …’” What’s that word here?
Dawson: Shachat.
Carlos: Shachat. Now, notice it’s also the word destroyed, With shachat, I will destroy but I’ll let some pass, but with machah…nah, uh-uh.
Dawson: So actually, we saw that with the story of the Passover when He shachat Egypt with the plague of the firstborn. So some of them still lived.
Carlos: But they still lived and it goes on.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: And His prophecy could be fulfilled that one day, there will be a road from Egypt.
Dawson: Yes, from Egypt.
Carlos: Through the land of the 10 tribes up to Assyria. Assyrians, our cousins. Assyrians are Shemites.
Dawson: Shemites.
Carlos: Israelis or Judah, Shemites. Jordanian, Shemites. Saudi Arabian, Shemites. Those are called ha, the, Hashemite Kingdoms or the Shemite Kingdoms. So Shem is doing just great nowadays.
So look at the difference. One is, “I will machah,” and that’s the end. No more, blot out. Machah is destroy with a – not just destroy but wipe out, blot out, gone versus – praise Father, He found Noah, he was righteous, and here we are because of Noah.
In Malachi, He says, “I will send Elijah to change the hearts to the fathers, the fathers unto the sons.” And He goes, “Least I strike earth with a machi,” which is most likely machah because it’s the same thing. “If I strike the earth with a machi,” that’s it. No recovery from that one. It’s also blot out and wipe out and uttterly destroy.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: So He sent John the Baptist and his work enabled us to pass through and here we are. So, praise the Lord for Brother John.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Brother John did the work right. Amen.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: I say Brother John because he is living. He is among the living, not among the dead.
Dawson: Yes.
If you are among the living, it’s because Father has placed your name, your shem, into His Book of Life. By the letters, the word shem means to eat and to drink. Eating and drinking is what gives your body sustenance and life and what preserves you. To have a shem in Father’s eyes is to be alive.
Yashua has us eat and drink of Him as a reminder that it’s not bread and water that gives us life, but that our lives were purchased by his flesh and blood. He is our true food and drink.
Earlier we saw the word shama which comes from this root word, shem. For those who are His, when Father speaks, we shama, because our food and drink is to pay attention to His voice.
A lot of people disagree on how to spell Yashua’s name and also, on how it should be pronounced. But one thing that we can all agree on is that the root word for His name is to save, Yasha. In Hebrew, it’s spelled yod-shin-ayin, Yasha, to save.
Father sent His own powerful arm to save us and it was through Yashua that He made His power known to us.
Yasha, to save.
So you mentioned John the Baptist earlier and how he was sent to restore things so that Father didn’t machi the earth.
Carlos: Amen.
Dawson: So the prophecy was that the redeemer would come to those in Jacob who would shub.
Carlos: Shub.
Dawson: From their pesha.
Carlos: Transgression?
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Shub is return from, return, repent, turn away.
Dawson: Yeah. To shub is – the literal meaning of shub by the letters is to face the house. So one of the meanings of the letter shin is it just means front or to face because your teeth, they’re right in front of your face. So we see that in a lot of words as well.
So He is saying to shub, to turn from your pesha. And I personally have heard a lot of people ask over the years, “What’s the difference between a sin and iniquity and transgression?
Carlos: This is a good time to do it.
Dawson: Yeah. If you look at these words in Paleo …
Carlos: I’m feeling a pop quiz is coming.
Dawson: No, no, no. It’s not a pop quiz. Not at all.
Carlos: I’m ready.
Dawson: OK. So if you look at these words in Paleo, you will get a pretty good idea of the distinction between the three. So the sin is – sometimes it’s pronounced chet, sometimes it’s chata. So it’s the picture of the wall. It basically makes the sound of the letter chet, the wall.
Iniquity is avon.
Carlos: Avon. Some people pronounce it avon.
Dawson: Avon, yes.
Carlos: But it’s avon.
Dawson: Avon. And it’s interesting that in the Bible, it mentions such a thing as unintentional sin. Not all sin is unintentional but there is such a thing as unintentional sin. But I don’t think you’re going to find any unintentional avon or pesha because as you can see by the letters, your eyes are wide open when you are committing one of those two things.
Carlos: Look at that.
Dawson: Now, the word pesha for transgression is literally a picture of the edge of your teeth. So you’re tearing something with the edge of your teeth and you’re doing it with full knowledge. You’re doing it with your eyes wide open. So the letter peh very often is used to mean edge, the shin, teeth. So if you use the edge of your teeth, it’s typically to tear something. And then the ayin, you’re doing it with your eyes wide open.
So there’s even a scripture that talks about pesha is the thing that the Angel of the Lord like in the howling, He does not forgive. He doesn’t pardon this.
Carlos: The pesha, those who will not repent.
Dawson: Yeah. So the prophecy in the Old Testament is that the Redeemer would only come to those in Jacob who would repent, who would shub from their pesha.
Carlos: There we go.
Dawson: So then you have John the Baptist before Yashua comes and he is out there in the wilderness and he is saying, “Shub. Shub.”
Carlos: Shub.
Dawson: Shub.
Carlos: Shub from your pesha.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Least he strikes the eretz with a mach, machah.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Oh, yeah. So yeah, it’s like you’re opening also for biting with your eyes wide open like you’re asking for it.
Dawson: Thankfully for those who are His, it’s written that our Father has machah our pesha. That is, He has blotted out, wiped out, and utterly destroyed any memory of our transgressions. Thank you, Father, for that destructive power.
That’s it for our study on the Hebrew letter shin. Next time around, we will take a look at the last letter in Father’s alphabet, the letter tav. See you guys.
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