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Friday, October 14, 2011

Quote of the Day

Tabitha was sitting at the table singing, "My God is so big, so strong, and so mommy."

Posted by Vinae at 7:53 AM

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Mike said...

Tabitha is closer to the truth than most people would realize with her statement of, “ My God is so big, so strong, and so mommy.”

I’m reading a book that is a study of Hebrew words and how the language is tied to the Hebrew culture and how our Western viewpoint and interpretation of Hebrew has muddied our translations of Scripture.

Most Bible translations translate “shaddai” as almighty, therefore “el shaddai” is God Almighty. Many times the translator will not translate the Hebrew word literally because it would it wouldn’t make sense in our Western thinking and may even be offensive. Such is the case with “shaddai”.

The book goes into quite a bit of detail that I will not go into because the book refers back to previous explanations of other root word that tie into the meaning of “shaddai”. Here’s the mini version. The Hebrew root word where “shaddai” originates is “shad”. “Shad”, in its original pictographic script of the pictographs representing the “sh” and the “d” was to represented the teats of goats, a very common animal within the herds of Hebrews and the teats obviously provided nourishment for their kids and they would die without it. “Shad” in Biblical Hebrew is one word used for breast. Thus “shaddai” also has the meaning of a “teat”. Just as the goat provides nourishment to its kids through its milk, God nourishes his children through his milk and provides all the necessities of life. Remember how God in Exodus referred to the promised land “flowing with milk and honey.” The word “shaddai”, meaning teats, is often coupled with the word “el”, meaning “mighty one”, creating the phrase “el shaddai”, literally meaning the “mighty teat.” Thus we can see the translator’s reluctance to literally translate this phrase in this manner and instead they chose words that they believed would convey the intended meaning and not offend and thus the translation of el shaddai to “God Almighty.”

Thus Tabitha was right in a way in that God provides nourishment and sustenance for us like her mommy…
Grampa Mike

Friday, October 14, 2011 at 1:25:00 PM PDT

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