YHVH Meaning - Definition
The Hebrew Codec
“YHVH the Secret name of God”
By Kenneth Martin
1:1 “The Proto and Paleo Origins of God “YHVH ELoHYiM”
The name of God and Deity Motifs are very old, originating in the Prehistory Era (before -3400 BC).
Hence, my research focuses on the earliest records; Neolithic Pictographics (pre-alphabetics), Proto Sumerian Cuneiform and Paleo Hebrew.
.1 By what name did Abram call God?
Genesis 11:31; And Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter in Law, the wife of Abram his son and went forth with them “from Ur of the Chaldeans**” to go to the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 11:31, places Abram in the Third Dynasty of “Ur of the Chaldeans”.
When “Ur” was the capital of Sumer.
Abram was a Sumerian.
Abram’s and the Jewish people’s Homeland is Sumer.
Moreover, Abam's God and Temple originated in Ur Sumer.
* Research; “Neo Sumerian Ziggurat of Ur (Temple)”, “Neo Sumerian Ziggurat of Eridu (Temple)”, “Mesopotamian Deities”, “Sumerian Kings list”, and “Eridu Genesis”.
** Chaldeans means “Earth Tillers, gardeners”.
YHVH Meaning - Definition
YHVH Meaning - Definition
1:3 The original Neolithic Pictographic meaning for Lord, Hebrew; “YHVH”.
In ancient Hebrew “Every name tells a story”.
Reading right to left;
“Y” Yod, symbolizes; “Sky”
“H” Heh, symbolizes; “Man” (hands pointing to the sky)
“V” Vah (Wos/ Fos), symbolizes; “Light” (Sun, bright, shining)
“H” Heh, symbolizes; “Man” (hands pointing to the sky)
YHVH symbolizes; Sky, Man, Light, Man
“YHVH” is paraphrased as; “Sky Deity".
A “Deity (Daylight)”; “Is the personification of the light from the sun”, or light from the moon, planets and stars. Manifested by storms, wind, lightning, thunder, and natural disasters.
* Research; “List of Sky Deities”.
* Research; “Yahweh”, Yahwists, and Yahwism.
STOP! Do not proceed!
Research; “Wikipedia; Phoenician Alphabet - Tables of Letters”.
If on a phone scroll down to "Tables of Letters" and select, then swipe to the left to see the Hebrew.
The Phoenician Alphabet is a prerequisite to understanding the “Hebrew Codec”.
* You may have to zoom down your page size to see the entire “Table of Letters” chart. Hebrew is the furthest right column.
Summary; The Hebrew Language originated from "Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Phoenician Alphabets."
.1 Linguistic Etymology;
“Sky” in Hebrew is “Shamayim”.
Sha Ma Yi M;
“Sha” symbolizes; “Of”
“Ma” symbolizes; “Water”
“Y” symbolizes; “Sky”
“Mem” symbolizes; plural of the Y (Yod); “Skies”
Sha Ma Yim symbolizes; Of, Water, Sky, Plural
Shamayim is paraphrased as; “Skies Of Water” (Rain Clouds) (Firmament).
Shamayim = Rain Clouds
The theme of the Tanakh and New Testaments is “gods are descending from the clouds and men are ascending to the clouds. Moveover, these Rain Clouds give life to the earth or punish men for their sins.
Compare the “Y” yod in “YHVH” to the “Y” yod in “Shamayim”;
The “Y” yod in YHVH, and the “Y” yod in ShaMaYim both mean “Skies".
* In your Tanakh or Bible, cross out “heaven” and replace it with “Rain Clouds”.
In Shamayim original context;
Heaven = Rain Clouds
From YHVH and Shamyim we can extrapolate;
“Y”HVH; “Sky, Man, Light, Man (Sky Deity)
ShaMa-”Yim”; “Skies Of Water” (Rain Clouds)
.2 The “H” (Heh) in Abraham.
Father in Hebrew is “Abba (Avva)”.
First in Hebrew is “Rashait (Beginning)”.
AV Ra Ham;
Av (Abba) symbolizes “father”
Ra symbolizes “first”
Ha symbolizes “man”
Mem symbolizes the plural of the “H” (Heh) "Men"
Avraham symbolizes; Father, First, Man, Plural
Avraham paraphrases as “First Father of Men” (Father of the nations).
From ShaMaYim and AbRaHam we can extrapolate;
“Y” (the yod) symbolizes “Sky”.
“H” (the heh) symbolizes “man”.
Yah = “Sky Man”
3. Even in the Alphabetics Era (beginning -2000 BC), we can break down almost every Hebrew word and name into its; root word, prefixes and suffixes as;
Water in Hebrew is Maim (Mem Yod Mem).
Moses in Hebrew is “MaShe” or Moshe;
MaShe;
Ma symbolized; “Water”
She symbolized; “Of”
MaShe symbolized; Water, Of
MaShe paraphrased as; “Of the Water (From the Water)”.
Comparing the “S” shin in Shamayim to the “S” shin in Moshe;
Sha Ma Yim symbolizes; Of, Water, Sky, Plural (Skies Of Water)
Ma She symbolized; Water, Of (Of the Water) or “From the Water”.
.4 From YHVH, Shamayim, Abraham and Mashe (Moses) we can extrapolate;
“Y” (Yod) symbolizes “Sky”
“H” (Heh) symbolizes “Man”
“M” (Mem) symbolizes “Water”
“S” (Shin) symbolizes “Of”
“M” (Mem) as a suffix is the Plural of the character it follows.
It’s just that “Plain and Simple”.
.5 Hebrew Assimilation into the Phoenician and Egyptian culture;
Exodus 6:2-3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as El Shaddai (Priest Deity), but by My name "YHVH" I made Me not known to them.
Moses was born in Egypt, raised as an Egyptian, hence fluently spoke the Egyptian language.
Moreover, the Hebrews were in Egypt for 430 years, and their daily language was Egyptian.
In Exodus 6:2-3 Moses was translating the old Mesopotamia An (Anu) to “YHVH” in the Phoenician dialect of the Egyptian language.
An (Anu) = Yah (YHVH)
Different Languages, same meaning, and same motif of "Sky Gods and Sky Deities".
Abraham called God “An or Anu (Sky Man - Sky Deity).
500 years later, Moses led the Hebrews to call God in the Phoenician dialect of the Egyptian language; “YHVH (Sky Man - Sky Deity)”.
Elohim
Elohim Meaning/ Definition;
1:4 The Elohim;
The original Neolithic Pictographic meaning of Moses’ God, Hebrew; Elohim (ALHYM/ ELoHYiM) , and in Arabic “Allah”.
Reading right to left;
“A” Alef symbolizes; “Ox (Priest)” Bull of Heaven
“L” Lamid, symbolizes; Staff; “Leads”
“H” Heh, symbolizes; “Man” (pointing to the sky)
“Y” Yod, symbolizes; “Sky”
“M Mem, as suffix symbolizes “multitudes”, plural of the Yod, as; Skies.
“ALH-YM” (ELoHYiM) symbolizes; “Ox (Priest)* – Staff – Man – Sky – Multitudes.”
“AaLoH-YiM” (ELoHYiM/ Elohim) paraphrased as; “Priest Leads Man (to) Sky*
*Clouds, Heavens, home of the gods.
In Sumerian and Hebrew "Alo (Elo)" as a prefix or suffix in a name paraphrase “Priestly Ruler”.
The original Elohim were "Ruling Priests" who descended from the sky (clouds).
In Sumerian, then Hebrew cultures, the highest position was the “High Priest”, there were no kings.
In Sumerian and Hebrew "Alo (Elo)" as a prefix or suffix in a name paraphrase “Priestly Ruler”.
Who forecast the dates and hour for the seasons and feasts.
Early astrologers believed the stars were gods ruling from the clouds.
* Compare Hebrew Ox (Bull of Heaven) to the Greek"Taurus" bull.
"YHVH Elohim" paraphrases as; "Sky Deity High Priest".
.1 The first time the Elohim appears anywhere in the Middle East is on the “Sumerian Kings List” and the “Sumerian Tablets”;
SKL 1:1 “After the kingship descended from the sky, the kingship was in Eridu. In Eridu, “Alulim (Elolim) became king.”
Alulim symbolizes ”Priest Leads Leaders”.
Alulim paraphrases as; “High Priest” of tribal leaders.
Sumerian Alu = Hebrew Alu (Elo)
The sons of Alulim were called; “Alumites (Elomites/ Elamites)”.
Sumarian Alulim sons = Hebrew Alohim (Elohim) Sons of God.
Abraham was an Elomite (Elamite). Elomites were descendants of Alulim, Anlil (Enlil) Ankil (Enkil) and Seth.
The Sumerian Motif of "Alulim and his sons (Enlil and Enkil) descending from the sky" is the same as Genesis 1 - 6 where the "Elohim descend from the sky".
* Many scholars equate; Adam to Alulim, Able to Enlil, and Cain to Enkil (Canaanites).
As the Sumerian sons of Alulim, the Hebrew Elohim were also “Ruling Priestly Astrologers”.
Moreover, as the Sumerians, the Hebrews also had Priestly Rulers, until
King Saul and King David.
And many of the Priests and Kings of Israel had the prefixes and suffixes “Alu (Elo)” tying them to Alulim (Elolim) and his sons, as “Ruling Priests”.
Similar names, same motifs.
.2 Research; The original creation motifs; Sumerian “Eridu Genesis”, and Akkadian “Emuna Elis”
Do a Comparative Study of the names and motifs, in the Sumerian Tablets, Akkadian Tablets and Moses’ Genesis.
The original Mesopotamian meaning for “Allah” is: “Priest of man”.
.3 Summary of God’s specific title and name “YHVH ALHYM (Elohim)”;
“Y”HVH; Sky Man, Light Man (Sky Deity)
ShaMa-”Yim”: Skies of Water
ALH”YiM” (AaLaH-YiM/ Elohim); Priest Leads, Man (to) Skies.
It’s plain and simple.
AHYH Meaning - Definition
AHYH Meaning - Definition
1:5 The original Neolithic Pictographic meaning of Moses’ God as; “AHYH”;
AHYH is the specific title and name of God as; “High Priest of Deities”. “AHYH” is first used in Exodus 3:14.
“A” Alef, symbolizes; “Ox” (Priest) Bull of Heaven
“H” Heh, symbolizes; “Man”
“Y” Yod, symbolizes; “Sky”
“H” Heh, symbolizes; “Man”
AHYH symbolizes; Priest, Man, Sky, Man.
AHYH is paraphrased; “High Priest of Deities”.
or
"AH" symbolizes "Priesthood".
And "YH" (Yah) Symbolizes "Sky Deity".
AHYH can be paraphrased; “High Priest of Deities.”
Often when “AH” is used as a suffix in a person's name, it symbolizes “Priesthood”.
Exodus 3:14; Moses said to God, “When I come to the Israelites and say to them; ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you’ and they ask me,
‘What is His name? What shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses,
“AHYH Asher AHYH.” He continued, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, “AHYH sent me to you.”
Moses was translating Assyrian "Ashur" to the Phoenician dialect of the Egyptian language "AHYH".
.1 The Neolithic Pictographic meaning of; “AHYH-Asher-AHYH:
Exodus 3:14; Moses said to God, “When I come to the Israelites and say to them; ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you’ and they ask me,
‘What is His name? What shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses,
“AHYH Asher* AHYH.” He continued, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, “AHYH* sent me to you.”
Assyrian Cuneiform Anshur = Hebrew Asher
Research; “Wikipedia; Assur” in cuneiform, note the star (an) symbolizing deity.
“Anshur (Asher)” was a god of the Mesopotamian; Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Bablonians, Canaanites, Eblate, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Urartian, Palaic, Aramaic, and Old Perians.
Anshur (Asher);
An* symbolizes “Sky Man” (Sky Deity)
Sh symbolizes “of”
R symbolizes “First”
Asher symbolizes; Sky Man, Of, First
Asher paraphrases as; "First of the Sky Deities" or "High Priest of Deities".
* Research "Anshur (King of the Sky Gods)"
Ansher -> Asher (Assyr, Assyrians).
Assyrian "Asher (High Priest of Deities) = Hebrew "AHYH (High Priest of Deities)".
Asher = AHYH
Different Languages, same meaning.
"AHYH" was the Phoenician dialect of the Egyptian language for Assyrian "Asher".
The Ashurim*/ Ashurot, (Asherah Poles) that are mentioned in the Tanakh were to honor Anshur (King of the Sky Gods).
* Ashurim or Ashurot in Hebrew is Not Feminine.
Or
An symbolized Deity, and Sar symbolized Ruler, hence “Deity Ruler”
.2 The original meaning of “AHYH Asher AHYH” was;
Exodus 3:14; Moses said to God, “When I come to the Israelites and say to them; ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you’ and they ask me,
‘What is His name? What shall I say to them?”
And God said to Moses,
“AHYH Asher AHYH.” He continued, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, “AHYH* sent me to you.”
AHYH = High Priest of Deities
Asher = High Priest of Deities (First of the Sky Deities)
AHYH = High Priest of Deities
Asher = AHYH = “High Priest of Deities”
In Exodus 3:14, Moses was translating Mesopotamia "An" and “Anshur (Ashur)” to the Phoenician dialect of the Egyptian language “YHVH” (Sky Deity) and AHYH (High Priest of Deities).
Moses and the Israelis were assimilating into the Phoenician and Egyptian culture.
Sky Deity = An = Yah (YH-VH)
High Priest of Sky Deities = Anshur = AHYH
The Elders called God An and Ashur, and the young who assimilated into the Phonetician and Egyptian culture called God YHVH and AHYH.
What the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Caananites and Hebrews had
in common, they all share the motif of a "Sky Man descending from the sky (clouds)".
Ashur was the eight son of Jacob 500 years before Moses.
.3 Asherah (Wife of Asher);
Asher’ah is the feminine of Asher.
Assyrian Anshurah = Hebrew Asherah
An* symbolizes “Deity” (Sky Man)
Sh symbolizes "of"
Ra symbolizes "First"
H symbolizes "man" (H as a suffix often symbolizes Feminine).
Asher’ah symbolizes as; An, Of, First, Man (Feminine)
Asherah paraphrased as “First Lady of the Sky Man”, referred to as “Queen of Heaven (Clouds)”.
Comparing Asherah to Sarah;
Asher ->Ashurah -> Sarah
Sarah;
“Sar” symbolizes; "Ruler"
“aH” symbolizes; “ Feminine”
Sarah paraphrases as “Queen”.
Similar languages, same meaning, and the same motif.
.4 Marayim (Miriam or Mary);
“Ma” symbolizes; "Water"
“Ra” symbolizes; "First"
“Yi” symbolizes; "Sky"
“Mem” symbolizes; Plural of the Yod “Skies”
MaRaYiM Symbolizes; Water, First , Sky, Plural
Marayim (Mary) paraphrases as; “First Water (to) Skies” or “Spring of water to the sky ”.
Perhaps “Morning Fog” that ascends to the sky”.
Abraham, Maraym and Israel were Egyptian in origin. That they originated during or after their captivity in Egypt (earliest date; -1300 BC).
.5 Comparative Pictographic Symbolism;
Y H V H symbolizes; “Sky, Man, Light, Man”
A H Y H symbolizes; Ox, Man, Sky, Man.
“Ha V” ah symbolizes; Man, Light, feminine
“A L H-Y M” (ELoHYiM) symbolizes; “Ox, Staff, Man, Sky, Multitudes.”
Sha Ma Yim symbolizes; “Of, Water, Sky, Plural”
Mo She symbolizes; “Water, Of”
AV Ra Ha M symbolizes; “Father, First, Man, Plural”
From these names we can extrapolate;
Y yod symbolizes Sky
H heh symbolizes man
M symbolizes water
M mem as a suffix symbolizes plural of the letter it follows
.6 The original meaning of the name “Israel”;
I S Ra EL
“I” Yod symbolizes; “Sky”
“S” Shin symbolizes; “of”
“Ra” Rosh symbolizes; “First”
“E” (Alef) symbolizes; “Ox” (Priest)
“L” Limid symbolizes “Staff”
Israel is symbolizes; “Sky, Of, First, Ox (Priest), Staff”
Israel is paraphrased as; “First of Sky Priest Ruler” or “High Priest of Sky Ruler”.
.7 Judah;
Yu Da H
Y symbolizes; "Sky"
D symbolizes; "Door"
H symbolizes; "Man"
Yudah symbolized; Sky, Door, Man
Yudah paraphrases as; “Man’s Gateway to the Sky (Priests of Yah)”
.8 LeVi;
Le symbolizes Staff
Vi symbolizes Light
LeVi symbolized as “Staff, Light”
LeVi paraphrases as “Light Staff"
YHVH Meaning - Definition
YHVH Meaning - Definition
YHVH Meaning - Definition
1:6 The last king of the Sumerian Kings List was “Noah (Ziusudra)”. Ziusudra was the Sumerian name for Noah.
* Research; "Ziusudra” and “Atra-Hasis” was the Akkadian name for Noah in the Akkadian Tablets.* Research; “Atra-Hasis”
Moses’ accounts of creation and the flood originated from the motifs of the “Epic of Ziusudra (Noah)” and the “Epic of Gilgamesh”.
Compare; The Sumerian Tablets and Akkadian Tablets to Moses’ Genesis.
* Research; “Epic of Ziusudra,” “Epic of Gilgamesh (Utnapishtim),” “Epic of Atrahasis,” “Deucalion,” and “Flood Myth Historically.”
Abram’s bible was the Sumerian Tablets;
The formulation and the establishment of a legend is: “an ancestor (or hero), time, and distance”.
Hence, Historians, Archaeologists and Anthropologists, search for the “oldest artifacts and documents” which are usually the most accurate. That, from the oldest artifact on, there is a progression of ancestors (or heroes) who became legends and myths.
The Sumerian Tablets was Abram's “Original Bible.”
* Bibles are “written accounts of history, religion, and laws”.
.1 Thinking outside of the Bible Box.
Most scholars are in the Bible Box, that timelines must be less than 5,700 years from the Biblical Creation narrative.
Most Middle Eastern Archaeologists use Hieroglyphic and the beginning of their civilizations 12,000 BC, as the beginning of their timeline.
I use the Scientific Dating of the Writing Systems and the Linguistics rather than the Biblical Box narrative, thus are much earlier dates. Moreover, I used the earliest dates of the writing systems.
.2 History of Bibles;
* Dating was established from the Writing Systems, Linguistics, and Archeological Artifacts.
-3400 BC “Historical Era begins.”
-3400 BC Egyptian Hieroglyphs (First bibles)
-3300 BC Sumerian Tablets (second bible); “Eridu Genesis (original book of Genesis)” and the “Epic of Gilgamesh” predate Moses by 2000 years.
-3200 BC Akkadian Tablets, Enuma Elish (Third Bible)
-3100 BC, Canaanite Ebla Tablets (Forth Bible), note these tablets (bibles) predate Abraham by 1300 years.
-2000 BC Canaanite Mari Tablets*.
-2000 BC Canaanite Alalakh Tablets*.
-2000 BC Canaanite Amarna Tablets*.
* (combined to form a Fifth bible)
-1950 BC Abraham born
-1940 BC Destruction of Ur, Gen 11:31 Abram flees to Canannan
-1850 BC Simmion’s Ark Tablet (Sixth Bible)
-1800 BC Atra Hasis Account of Genesis (Seventh Bible)
-1350 Moses leads Israel out of Egypt
-1300 BC Ugaritic Texts were written, “One thousand five hundred (1500) Ugaritic Texts, plus the Epic Poems” (Eight Bible) in Cuneiform. Contemporary parallel of the Torah.
-1300 BC, Moses begins to write the Torah. Begins the “Jewish Historical Age”. (Ninth Bible).
Moses’ accounts were 2000 years after the Sumerian Tablets. Hence,
Moses’ Genesis originated from the Sumerian motif of God, creation and the flood, and would have been influenced by the eight previous bibles.
As with legends myths and motifs, Moses’ Sky Deity exceeded all previous sky deities becoming the celestial “Pre-existent Creator God” who speaks the universe into existence in “six earth days”.
.3 The original Sumerian script had over 2800 characters.
Each pictograph represented an ox, deer, man, house etc...
Around 2000 BC, the Egyptian, Phonecian, Canaanite and Sumeian scripts were abbreviated to 28 characters to modern Paleo - Alphabet scripts, of which vocalized words.
My research focuses on “Proto and Paleo Pictographics,” pre alphabetics.
YHVH Meaning - Definition
Origin of YHVH Elohim
1:7 The “Sumerian Anuna” were the Hebrew “Elohim* gods of creation” in Genesis 1-6;
Cloud in Sumerian Cuneiform is “Anun”, and Cloud in Hebrew is “Anan”.
Sumerian Anun = Hebrew Anan
Translating from Sumarian An to YHVH Elohim, the Israelis were assimilating into western culture.
Sky Deity = An = Anshur (Asher) = YHVH
Same motifs of “Descending from the clouds” and “Kings of the clouds”.
Anuna = Elohim
“Anunnaki” were the “Elohim” in the Akkadian Tablets
Gen 1:26, “Let us make man in our image.”
According to the Sumerian and Akkadian Tablets; The Anuna (Elohim) of Genesis were; “Anu*, Anlil (Enlil), Anki (Enki), Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, and Inanna” (The Seven gods who Decree)
* An and Anu are the personifications of the sky. “An” as a prefix of a name shows Deity (Sky Man).
“An” lil (Sky deity of Rulers),
“An”ki (Sky deity of Earth).
As Adam in the Tanakh, Alulim, Ankil, Anlil, “descended from the Sky”.
Research; “Anu” and “List of Mesopotamian Deities.”
Do a comparative study of the names in the Sumerian Tablets, Akkadian Tablets and Moses’ Genesis.
The scribes Superimposed their kings, local towns and culture into the Motifs.
Mesopotamian Sky Man -> Sumerian Anlulim -> Anlil (Enlil) and Anki (Enki) -> Anshur (Asher) -> YHVH Elohim
The Israelis were assimilating into the Phoenician and Egyptian culture.
Same motifs of “descending from the sky”, and similar pronunciations.
1:8 Historical Gaps;
1. Historical Gap 1 (Oral Era);
Was from the Stone Age, until the Historical Age (-3400 BC).
.2 Historical Gap 2:
From the time Abram left Sumeria, God’s name and Jewish history was orally kept for 500 years, thru 15 generations while slavery in Egypt.
.3 Historical Gap 3
From the time of the fall of The Second Temple in Jerusalem and the deaths of all Jewish Priests (70 AD), until the beginning of the writing of the Talmud, there was a 200 year gap, of which God was forgotten, and the Hebrew language was lost.
1:9 Archaeological Chronological Review;
* Dating was established from the writing systems, linguistics and archeological artifacts.
-1300 Abecedaries (Abecedarius/ Abecedarium) scripts dated.
-1300 BC, Moses begins to write the Torah, begins the “Jewish Historical Age” (Eighth Bible). The Torah was written in the “Egypitan Alphabetics (Aka Paleo Hebrew Script).”
-500 BC Exile into Babylon
5th to 3rd century BC to Late Biblical Hebrew, by Ezra and Nehemiah,
- 400 BC, Genesis is canonized* into one scroll, created from 6 primary scrolls and hundreds of fragments. The modern script, Linguistics, and motifs, affixes “most of the Torah being written post Babylon exile”. Birth of Jewish Monotheism.
- 375 BC the five books of the Torah is canonized (into five scrolls), created from dozens of scrolls and hundreds of fragments.
-285 BC, the Greek Septuagint LXX, the Greek translation of the Torah, used; “Theos Kyrios” (Lord God) to describe YHVH ALHYM;
Theos Kyrios is Paraphrased as “Light Deity - First Earth Deity” and is used in the Septuagint (-285 BC).
-150 BC, Hasmonean Dynasty begins (Sadducees).
- 150 BC, Jewish Tanakh begins to be canonized. First time their dialect of the Egyptian Alphabet script was called “Hebrew”.
-3rd century BC to -1st century CE (AD), Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew,
70 CE (AD) Fall of the Second Temple and the slaughter of all Jewish Priests: Sadducees, Pharisees and all reputable religious leaders.
250 AD, Masoretic Text Hebrew/ Rabbinic Hebrew.