This section will be devoted to Scriptural words and their meaning. We will not only establish the etymological roots of these words, but we will reveal how many English words are actually Hebrew words. Everything and anything you might want to know about the Hebrew language will be discussed and presented in this section.E-mail us if you want to know what a particular word is and we will be happy to post it here for all to read. If you are interested in it, maybe many others are, too.
CRUCIFIX
The traditional symbol of much of modern Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, is the crucifix. The history of this symbol and how it came to be a symbol is spurious, at best, and pagan, at worst. The word 'crucifix' however, can be traced back to Hebrew roots. The word is actually a combining of two Hebrew words:
2. saphach which means 'to join together' or 'cleave' (Yesha'yahu 14:1, Iyov 30:7). These two words combine to form qerasaphach, or phonetically karahsahfak. Say it once! Karahsahfak. Eventually through the Indo-European language it became 'crucifix'. The English word 'suffix', which means to attach or fix to the end of a word, is a cognate of crucifix. Theologically, when Messiah was fixed to the tree, the crucifix was the means by which the prophecy of the House of Israel and the House of Yehudah, clinging together, was made possible, for Messiah was the mediator of the New Covenant as it says in Yesha'yahu 14:1: "For YHVH will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the sojourners shall be joined with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob."
Shalom Alecheim!
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