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Ps 68:4 why clouds?

*How Do They Get Clouds From Arabot? You Can't. - Psalm 68:4* > Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. > Psalm 68:4 KJV Everybody loves to preach this as "Yah rides upon the clouds." It sounds good for end times. Coming in the clouds. But look at the Hebrew. סֹלּוּ לָרֹכֵב בָּעֲרָבוֹת בְּיָהּ שְׁמוֹ Solu la-rochev ba'aravot beYah shemo Lift up, cast up a highway for Him that rideth *ba'aravot* - by His name Yah. What is *aravot*? Plural of *aravah*. Strong's 6160 - aravah: 1. desert, wilderness, steppe 2. plain, Arabah Brown-Driver-Briggs: > apparently North Arabian desert Isa 40:3, in general the steppe, often || midbar, Jer 17:6; Ps 68:5 It is everywhere a desert. Deut 1:1, Jer 2:6 "land of desert and pits," Isa 35:1 "the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice." There is no cloud in the root. The LXX...

Isa 29:3

*Isaiah 29:3 - Duwr is David. The LXX saw both.* I was looking at Isaiah 29:3. MT says: וְחָנִיתִי כַדּוּר עָלָיִךְ _ve-chaniti kaddur alayich_ And I will encamp as a circle around you. LXX says: καὶ κυκλώσω ὡς Δαυιδ ἐπὶ σὲ _kai kukloso hos Dauid epi se_ And I will encircle you as David. Everyone says LXX read Resh as Daleth. דור became דוד. Duwr became David. Simple scribal error. Resh and Daleth look almost identical. Case closed. But wait. Look again. LXX didn't just read David. They also read Duwr. Kukloso - I will encircle - where does that come from? It does not come from Chanah. Chanah חנה means to stoop down, to bend, to settle, to pitch a tent, to encamp. It has nothing to do with a circle. Zero. Encircle comes from Duwr. Duwr means circle, ball, to turn round. So LXX took Kaddur כדור and gave us TWO translations from the same consonants: 1. Duwr = kukloso - I will encircle 2. Duwd = David One Hebrew word translated twice. I don't think they dismissed Ch...

Ye-how-ah? Check grammar!

*Back to Yehowah: A Conversation* I started with a problem that’s been bugging me. The Greeks wrote the Name as IABE (Ya-beh) and IAOUE (Ya-oo-eh). But final Heh in Hebrew is almost never -eh. It’s always -ah. Yirmeyahu, Eliyah, Yesha’yahu - all -ah. So why would YHWH end in -eh in Greek? Greeks had Alpha for ah. They could have written IAOUA = Ya-ou-a. That would be perfect Yahowah. But they wrote E - eh. Maybe they had no rough breathing in the middle or end, so they couldn’t write the H. And that breathy final -ah sounded like -eh to a Greek ear. Or maybe the Samaritans they heard really did say Ya-beh with -eh, not Yah-wah. You pointed out: you can actually get Yeh-ow-ah straight from the pointing. And it’s eerily close to Yah-ow-ah. One dot of difference. And that’s true. The Leningrad points are: Yod + sheva = Yeh Heh + holam = ho Waw + kamatz = wah Final Heh = silent = Yeh-ho-wah. Read it exactly as pointed, no tricks. If you change sheva (eh) to patah (ah) on the Yod,...

Day of Atonement

*Yom Kippur — Two Goats, One Atonement* Lev 16:7-10 — Aaron takes two goats. One lot for YHWH, one lot for Azazel. Same enclosure. One offering. Two parts. *The Names:* _Az_ — _az_ [עז] — means goat. Also means strength and praise. Same word. Goat is the strong one. _Azel_ — _azal_ [אזל] — means to go away, to be removed, to be gone. To disappear to wilderness. _Azazel_ — _azazel_ [עזאזל] — Goat of Removal. The goat that goes away. Peshitta OT keeps the name — _la'Azazel_ — does not translate it to Lord. *Two Goats — Two Works:* *1. Goat for YHWH — slain — blood — the body* Lev 16:9 — the goat on which the lot for YHWH fell is offered as a sin offering. Blood brought inside the veil before the mercy seat. This is the body — the sacrifice — Yeshua as the Lamb — blood shed for YHWH. *2. Goat for Azazel — live — bearing — sent away* Lev 16:10 — the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell shall stand alive before YHWH to atone upon him, to send him away to Azazel to the wilder...

Isa 29:1-2 Ariel

Here is a draft in your notes voice for Isa 29:1-2 — you can paste as is: --- *Isa 29:1-2 — Ariel — Foundation Mount of God shall become Hearth of God* We have been tracking Isa 28:16-20 — _hinn'ni yissad be'Tzion even_ — Foundation Stone laid — bed too short — garment too narrow — _matsa_ — pressed. Now 29:1 opens same city. > _Hoy Ariel Ariel qiryat chanah David sephu shanah al shanah chaggim yinqophu_ > Woe Ariel Ariel the city where David encamped — add year upon year — let feasts come around in circuit. > _ve'tsaqoti la'Ariel ve'hayta ta'aniyah va'aniyah ve'hayta li ke'Ariel_ Who is Ariel? LXX saves it — _ouai polis Ariēl_ — Woe city Ariel — they would not translate it as lion. Targum saves it — _qirta d'shara David_ — city where dwelt David. Why? Because Ariel is two things in one spelling — and Ezekiel 43:15-16 proves it — first instance without א, other two with א: *v15a — הַהַרְאֵל — _har'el_ — without א — Mountain o...

Isa 28 translation

Isaiah chapter 28 as Hebrew compared to Greek LXX (LXX: ...) and Aramaic Peshitta (P: ...) and Aramaic Targums. _1_ Woe to crown glorious of drunkard Ephraim (LXX: crown of pride, hirelings of Ephraim) (P: shameful diadem of strength of his glory) and to garland shameful, army of his glory at head of valley of fatness (heavenly fatness / beautifully fertile) (P: which dominates at entrance of fertile valley) of those confused with wine (LXX: drunk without wine). _2_ Behold, the strong and mighty one for YHWH — as stream hail, storm destroying — as stream waters many, heavy, thick overflowing — He causes land to rest with power — (LXX: as great body water sweeping away soil, he shall make rest for the land) (P: I will give rest to this land by your hands) (Targum: people come against them to remove them out of the land into another land because sins in hands — army — Shalmaneser). _3_ With feet trampled crown glorious of drunkards Ephraim (LXX: hirelings beaten down with hands and fe...