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A wink and a prayer

A great deal of what we think we know about the Bible, especially the Old Testament is the result of thousands of years of private interpretations that have come down to us for centuries that have created out of and for the advancement of the doctrines of men more than the message and meaning of Moses.

But we have believe Jesus was the Messiah have the New Testament too. Knowing from it that Moses and Jesus were in agreement but the Pharisees and others were not in agreement with Jesus and his doctrine because they did not know Moses and his meaning because of all to common misinterpretation(s) of the ancient text.

If the modern interpretations of the Old Testament are false they can influence the interpretation and emphases on the New Testament, especially among Evangelicals who feel a need to identify Israel in today's interpretations of prophesies.

The Phrase "a wink and a prayer" is a eggcorn[1] of the Phrase "a wing and a prayer".

The common Hebrew word for wings is כָּנָף‎ kanaph[2] is also translated skirt, borders, corners, ends.

One word for the idea of wink is קָרַץ‎ qarats[3] but also 07335

A primitive root עָצֶה‎ ‘atsah (AyinTzadikHey ) Strong numbered 06095 "(properly) to fasten (or make firm), i.e. to close (the eyes)" -- to shut.[4]

The letters that form the word עָצֶה Winks or shuts is one of many containing the Hebrew letters AyinTzadik forming the word עֵץ‎ ‘ets [pronounced: ates] said to mean wood translated from Strong number 06086.

Many meanings

06086 עֵץ‎ AyinTzadik ‘ets [ates] from 06095 (עָצָה - winks)]

06095 עָצֶה‎ AyinTzadikHey to shut or
06096 עָצֶה‎ AyinTzadikHey backbone or
06097 עָצֶה‎ AyinTzadikHey tree or
06098 עָצֶה‎ AyinTzadikHey counsel from
03289 YodAyinTzadik devise or conspire;
n m; [BDB-781b] [{See TWOT on 1670 @@ "1670a" }] AV-tree 162, wood 107, timber 23, stick 14, gallows 8, staff 4, stock 4, carpenter + 02796 2, branches 1, helve 1, planks 1, stalks 1; 328
1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows
1a) tree, trees
1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax
  • 06086 עֵץ‎ trees; 06095 עָצֶה‎ to shut; 06096 עָצֶה‎ backbone; 06097 עָצֶה‎ tree; 06098 עָצֶה‎ counsel; 03289 advise or conspire

Why does the same letter grouping of עָצָה said to be from 06095 (עָצָה) - winks) have so many other meanings?

The verb 06095 עָצֶה‎ AyinTzadikHey to shut or wink conveys the deliberate closing or narrowing of the eyes.

In Scripture

In Scripture this physical motion sometimes becomes a metaphor for an inward intention:

  • "either the secret scheming of sinful humans" or
  • "the settled, sovereign plan of the Lord."

We see the same letters קֶרֶץ‎ qerets (KufReishTzadik) as wink and narrow or form, "nipping or stinging insect"(See קֶרֶץ‎ 07169 narrow, 07170 denounce, 07171 destruction nip.) are sometimes used in completely different ways with opposite meanings, as described in the THEOLOGICAL WORDBOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (TWOT):

"This root refers to a pinching together. It is applied to eyes, lips, and clay. It occurs in Ug(aritic). (UT 19: nos. 2280, 2281) meaning “‘to bite,’’ and ‘‘to shape’’ (clay into an effigy). Note also, Akk. q/kardsu. Our root occurs six times.

In the Qal stem our root is associated with an ‘insidious malicious gesture’ (KD, Psalms, I, p. 427). *‘Winking”’ is not a felicitous translation (Psalms 35:19, et al.)[5] since it connotes merriment rather than hostility. Perhaps ‘‘narrow the eyes’’ would better represent a deceitful and malicious look. Hence, ‘‘he who narrows his eyes causes sorrow’ (Proverbs 10:10).[6] Further support comes from Prov 16:30[7] where the man of violence ‘‘shuts his eyes’ and ‘bars (gdras) his lips.’’ The apparent intent is to depict a harsh man whose eyes are closed to others’ troubles and who bars his lips in hard cruelty.

A totally different connotation occurs in Job 33:6[8] where the Ugaritic/Akkadian meaning ‘‘to shape clay’’ figuratively applies to the creation of mankind and, hence, to Job's own origin. This usage is found in the Dead Sea Hodayot in dependence on the Job passage (Gaster, T. H., The Dead Sea Scriptures, Doubleday, rev. ed. 1964, p. 183).

Back to the word wink as קָרַץ‎ qarats(KufReishTzadik[3] which does appear 5 times[9] in the Bible.

Perception and Purpose

Eyes mark perception and purpose (2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.28[10]; Matthew 6:22–23[11]); to shut them is therefore to harbor a purpose that is hidden from public view but fully known to God (Hebrews 4:13)[12].

There is יָעַץ‎ YodAyinTzadik which can mean to advise, consult and the Hebrew word for wood dose include that idea of consulting.

Squinting the eye like a wink is often suggesting narrowing the focus. We also know related roots of עצים or just עצ AyinTzadik include not only the word like עֵצָה for "counsel/advice" but the word for "backbone" which includes standing up with the idea of firmness/strength like a tree.

There is יָעַץ‎ YodAyinTzadik which can mean to advise, consult.

We see this word in יוֹעֵץ֙ in Isaiah 9:6 in reference to a Counsellor but before that in verse 2 we see "The people that walked in darkness".[13] And by verse 4 "For thou hast broken הַחִתֹּ֖תָ the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor..."

There are numerous occurrences of this word which is associated with the word wood or council. We see it in Proverbs 16:30 – “He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.” • The closing of the eye an signal covert malice. "The wicked man masks his intentions with a gesture that looks harmless but hides a plot. The verse warns that subtle signs often betray a heart set on wrongdoing (compare Proverbs 6:12–14).

2. Isaiah 14:26 – “This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.” • Here the same Hebrew consonants appear in a prophetic context, now describing the LORD’s comprehensive purpose against proud empires. The Assyrian menace loomed large in Isaiah’s day, yet God’s “plan” encompasses the entire earth and therefore cannot be thwarted (Isaiah 14:27; Proverbs 19:21).

Thematic Connections

• Human Plotting versus Divine Purpose: Scripture frequently contrasts the frailty of human schemes with the immovable counsel of God (Psalm 33:10–11; Proverbs 21:30; Acts 4:27–28). The two uses of the verb sharpen that contrast: one wink births perversity; the other word announces the Lord’s universal strategy.


Footnotes

  1. ↑ Eggcorns are words or phrases that result from a mishearing, misremembering, or reinterpretation of an original expression. They often make logical sense on their own (unlike pure malapropisms), which is why they spread. The term "eggcorn" itself is an eggcorn for "acorn."
  2. ↑ 03671 כָּנָף‎ kanaph [kaw-nawf’] said to be from 03670 כָּנָף‎ kanaph moved into a corner; n f; [BDB-489a] [{See TWOT on 1003 @@ "1003a" }] AV-wing 74, skirt 14, borders 2, corners 2, ends 2, feathered 2, sort 2, winged 2, misc 8; 108
    1) wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirt
    1a) wing
    1b) extremity
    1b1) skirt, corner (of garment)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 07169 קָרַץ‎ qarats kaw-rats’ a primitive root; v; [BDB-902b] {See TWOT on 2075 } AV-wink 3, move 1, forme 1; 5
    1) to narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse
    1a) (Qal) to pinch
    1b) (Pual) to be nipped or pinched off, be formed (see 07170, 07171)
  4. ↑ 06095 עָצָה‎ ‘atsah [aw-tsaw’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-781a] [{See TWOT on 1669 }] AV-shut 1; 1
    1) (Qal) to shut
  5. ↑ Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
  6. ↑ Proverbs 10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
  7. ↑ Proverbs 16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good. Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness.
  8. ↑ Job 33:6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed <07169> out of the clay.
  9. ↑ Qarats 5 times
    1. Job 33:6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God s stead: I also am formed <07169> out of the clay.
    2. Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink '<07169> with the eye that hate me without a cause.
    3. Proverbs 6:13 He winketh <07169> with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
    4. Proverbs 10:10 He that winketh <07169> with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
    5. Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth<06095> his eyes to devise froward things: moving <07169> his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
  10. ↑ 2 Samuel 22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down. 29 For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
  11. ↑ Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  12. ↑ Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession.
  13. ↑ Eyes darkened
    Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."
    Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
    Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"
    Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
    Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."
    Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
    Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."
    Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
    Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."
    Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”
    Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
    John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
    Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"
    2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
    Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
    Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
    Luke 11:34 "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness."
    John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.
    Acts 26:16...18 to Paul "to make thee a minister and a witness"... 18 "To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me."
    Romans 11: 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."
    1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
    1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
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