Line/daughter of voice

*QAV - The Measuring Line That Circles The Sea* I've been chasing one word for months now. *qav (קו).* It won't let me go. Isaiah 28:10-12 first hooked me: > *qav laqav qav laqav (קו לקו קו לקו)* Precept upon precept? No. *Line upon line. Measuring line upon measuring line.* The theologians call it child's babble. It's not babble. It's the theology of measure. God teaches by line. To outsiders it sounds like gibberish, but it's measure. Then I saw it around the sea. 1 Kings 7:23 - Solomon's molten sea: > *10 cubits from brim to brim, and a line of 30 cubits compassed it round about - qav savav (קו סבב)* 10 across, 30 around. 30/10 = 3. That's *pie*. Pi. The *qav that goes around the sea* is pie. That same root becomes hope - and this is where Heh matters. > *qav (קו) = qof (ק) 100 + vav (ו) 6 = 106 - without Heh (ה) - open line, incomplete* > *qavah (קוה) = qof (ק) 100 + vav (ו) 6 + heh (ה) 5 = 111 - with Heh (ה) - line with breath, closed circle* *qav (קו) is cord. qavah (קוה) is cord twisted into circle with breath added. Heh (ה) is breath, window, revelation.* Now watch pie: > *111 / 106 = 1.0471698 x 3 = 3.141509 = pie* *The sea is 10 diameter to 30 circumference - 3 - but 3 x qavah (קוה) / qav (קו) = almost full pie.* > *Without Heh (ה) - line can't hold water.* > *With Heh (ה) - line becomes miqveh (מקוה) - collection - both collection of waters AND collection of hope - same word (מקוה).* > *qav (קו) + Heh (ה) = qavah (קוה) = to twist cord = to wait = to hope* Word and waters both come by measure by qav. But only with Heh does measure become circle that holds. Ezekiel 47 - the man with the *qav (קו)* in his hand measures the waters: 1000 cubits to ankles, to knees, to loins, to sea you cannot pass. Word by measure, waters by measure. And in those measured waters? Fishermen from Engedi to Eneglaim. John 21:11 - 153 great fishes in the net held by *qav (קו)* - line that does not break. Fish of the great sea - the *miqveh (מקוה)*. Now Psalm 19:2-4 - the voice that is everywhere: v2: *yom l'yom yabia omer (יום ליום יביע אמר) - day to day pours speech* v3: *ein omer v'ein devarim beli nishma qolam (אין אמר ואין דברים בלי נשמע קולם) - There is NO speech, NO language, where their voice is NOT heard - KJV is right - voice IS heard everywhere* v4: *HOW is it heard? b'khol ha'aretz yatza qawwam (בכל הארץ יצא קום) - their measuring line went out through all earth* Not obscure in place - obscure in form. It's heard everywhere, but not as clear speech - as *qav (קו)* - line. Targum Tehillim keeps line: "The line of their conversation reaches..." My Peshitta OT AEIB says: > *b'kullah ara npaqat sebartahon (בכלה ארעא נפקת סברתהון) - in all earth went forth their Gospel* *sebarta (סברתא / ܣܒܪܬܐ) from sbar / cabar (סבר) - to hope, to announce.* Christian Syriac: Gospel. Jewish Aramaic: hope. Same as *qavah (קוה) = hope.* Line brings hope, hope is Gospel. Peshitta NT Rom 10:18 Paul quotes it: > *b'kullah ara npaqat barat qalahon (בכלה ארעא נפקת ברת קלהון) - in whole earth went out daughter of their voices* *barat qalahon (ברת קלהון / ܒܪܬ ܩܠܗܘܢ) - bat qala (ברת קלא) - daughter of voice - echo.* Lamsa: "echoes of their voices." Roth AENT: bat qol (בת קול) - secondary heavenly voice. LXX: *phthongos (φθόγγος) - tone / reverberation.* Aquila: *kanon (κανών) - rule / canon* - translation of *qav (קו).* Line becomes rule becomes voice becomes echo. And secondary voice theology: > *Torah = Original Kol (קול)* > *Rabbis = Bat Kol (בת קול) to Torah* > *Teachers = Bat Kol (בת קול) to Rabbis* > *Disciples = Bat Kol (בת קול) to Teachers* Each generation - *qav laqav (קו לקו)* - line added to line - secondary, thinner, more obscure - but stretches farther. Original Kol at Sinai in one place. Bat Kol echo *b'kullah ara (בכלה ארעא) - in whole earth.* Will faith continue till Yeshua returns? Yes - because God counts obscure echo, measured line, as hearing. Even 106 without Heh, when multiplied by 3 with Heh, becomes full circle pie that holds sea. It's truly an amazing word.