First word in the scriptures:
בראשׁית
Translated: in the beginning
Suffix:
ב meaning
in or
tent
Word:
ראשׁית meaning
head,
beginning,
first fruit
First Two Letters:
בר meaning
son (in aramaic),
grain,
pure
Second Letter:
ר meaning
man, beginning
Next Letter:
א meaning
ox, strength, head, sacrifice, one, authority
Next Letter:
שׁ meaning
consume, destroy, eat
Next Letter:
י meaning
established, nail, tent peg
Next Letter:
ת meaning
mark, covenant, cross
In the first word of the scriptures you have the story of Jesus:
One translation of the letters:
In man (son's) sacrifice destroys [sin via] nailed cross (Col 2:14)
Another:
In man (son's) sacrifice consumed, establishes covenant (Heb 12:24)
Another:
Tent [of] man (body's) strength eats established covenant (Mat 26:26)
You can do this with any word to show more meaning because ancient Hebrew was like the hieroglyphics of Egypt in that each letter held its own meaning.
Another shorter example: Adam
אדם
א :
ox, strength, head, sacrifice, one, authority
ד : door, path
ם : water, spirit, flow
The last two letters in Hebrew is the word for blood (
דם -
path of water). So you can see the Sacrifice (
א) of Blood (Heb 9:22) - Jesus THE Man. Man is also the
authority [to the] door [of the] spirit.
Dictionary:
- Original: אדם
- Transliteration: 'adam
- Phonetic: aw-dam'
- Definition:
1. to be red, red
a. (Qal) ruddy (of Nazarites)
b. (Pual)
1. to be rubbed red
2. dyed red
3. reddened
c. (Hiphil)
1. to cause to show red
2. to glare
3. to emit (show) redness
d. (Hithpael)
1. to redden
2. to grow red
3. to look red
- Origin: of unknown derivation
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
Where did Adam come from? The ground, which in Hebrew is
אדמה!
Here's one that'll blow your mind:
http://abdicate.net/blog/?p=248
I hope this whets your appetite to learn more.