Jehovahnissi
Jehovahnissi
The term "Jehovah-nissi"[2] is found in Exodus 17[3] as a name given to an altar Moses constructed after a battle with Amalek.[1]
There is seems to be considerable confusion among theologians, translators, and biblical commentaries as to the meaning of the word "nissi".
A modern concordance records the term is composed of the words Yëhovah[4]-nec[5]. Nec with the Strongs number H5251 is defined as "something lifted up". They also record the Hebrew term nec as being from the word naca[6] which appears once[7] and given the "dubious meaning" of "to be lifted up".
An interesting thing to note in our examination concerning the word naca which is spelled NunSamechSamech (נָסַס) is when given a different Strongs number it is also translated "standardbearer" one time[8], but defined "to be sick." It may also be noted that both appearances of the term NunSamechSamech there is a need to be saved or lifted up because someone is in need.
In the Septuagint the translators believed nissi′ to be derived from nus or nuwc (NunVavSamech (נוּס))[9] which includes the idea of "flee for refuge" and therefore they get a rendering of Yahweh nissî (יהוה ׀ נסי) as "the Lord My Refuge".
In the Vulgate the translators thought nissî (נסי) or NunSamechYod to be derived from nasas′ or nacac (NunSamechSamech (נָסַס)) meaning "hoist; lift up"[6] and therefore they get a rendering of Yahweh nissî as "Jehovah Is My Exaltation".
In many modern Christian translations, such as the New International Version, the name is translated “the LORD is my banner."
But the Hebrew letters in the text are not nacac(NunSamechSamech (נָסַס)) nor nuwc (NunVavSamech (נוּס)). The letters we see are NunSamechYod which almost seem to be of foreign origin. The only other word composed of a similar combination of letters is NunSamechYodKaf (נְסִיךְ)[10] and has several seemingly unrelated meanings and said to be from the root letters NunSamechKaf (נָסַךְ)[11] which are given numerous Strongs numbers and definitions.
The letters NunSamechKaf produce so many words (including 05258, 05259, 05260, 05261, 05262 and meanings it can be confusing:
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ס Samech The Eternal Cycle The circular symbolizes the fundamental truth described in the mystery of the ten statements [ prop... Support, turn] (Numeric value: 60)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
If you can change the meaning of a word by replacing Kaf with a Samech translated standardbearer which supposedly means to be sick or fainteth how are other words and their meaning altered with other letters?
How does changing the letter Kaf with a Yod change the meaning of the word?
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ס Samech The Eternal Cycle The circular symbolizes the fundamental truth described in the mystery of the ten statements [ prop... Support, turn] (Numeric value: 60)
- י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
The altar Jehovahnissi
As an altar the term may have its origins in these same ancient altars and temples found in many other city-states like that found in Sumer that functioned like the systems of Nimrod through forms of legal charity which can be identified as covetous practices because the members develop an appetite for the dainties and benefits of rulers at the expense of others and therefore those practices can be labeled as idolatry.[12]
The altars of Abraham and Moses were alternative systems of a social safety net or social welfare system which did not unduly mix the "milk and meat" nor exercise authority of one over the other. But unlike other nations all their offerings had to be freewill offerings according to the LORD, Jehovah.
The term "nissi" applied to the name Jehovah is spelled in the Hebrew as נִסִּי NunSamechYod and could reasonably have its origins in the ancient terms like nissi which can identify a place of "sanctuary" or an "exalted place" or the term "Nassi" which identifies a sacred place or temple area. The Assyrian nisi in general means "men" or "people" and Nassi was the Goddess who provided them with justice and welfare.
So, the term nissi in the phrase "Jehovah-nissi" can be a related symbol to or the replacement of the Goddess of welfare and justice in the city-states like Sumer which provided a civil law system of social welfare through the Goddess Nanshe[13] which was also spelled Nanse, Nassi, Nazi and who was known as the "protector of the disadvantaged"[14] through her many temples.
It is absolutely clear from the record of history that many governments from Cain to Nimrod and from Sumer to Sodom, and Egypt to Rome developed over time systems of social welfare that were established as public religion through the civil law in order to provide for the needy and also bind the people together by some form of social compact.
In fact, the bondage of Egypt we see in Genesis and Exodus, which was a form of corvee, was the direct result of such a contract where a portion of the the citizens labor [15] would belong to the government.
Both Abraham and Moses were setting up an alternative social safety net consisting of altars of clay and stone where the stones were not hewn but unregulated living men called out to perform these essential works of lifting up the people who might be in need. That practice of Pure Religion at the Altar of Jehovahnissi created the social bonds of a free society by weaving the people together if that welfare aid was accomplished only through the out pouring of fervent charity according to the perfect law of liberty.
These altars that differed from the Legal charity at the altars of Nissi in Sumer made Israel a peculiar people and was the banner of righteousness that that was raised up to distinguish them from the idolatry of other city-states.[12]
The nasi
In Leviticus 4:22–26, in the rites of Corban or the sacrifices that would be desired of leaders who err. The leader of each tribe can be designated as a nasi. There is a special offering made by a "nasi" who brings a gift to the Tabernacle.
The leader of each tribe is not a ruler over the people but a ruler over what thr people choose to freely give as a freewill offering or Corban.[16]
Numbers 7] referred to the nasi, and each one In Numbers 34:16–29, occurring 38 years later in the Biblical story, the nesi'im of each tribe are listed
The Mishnah defines the nasi in Leviticus 4 to mean the king but there was meant to be no king in Israel who could exercise authority.
The living altars of Jesusnissi
Jesus would eventually call out His little flock along with appointing His own Sanhedrin and finally appointing a kingdom to His Little flock because the priests of Judea were making the word of God to none effect by the institutions of legal charity they created through the civil law and the Temples of of Herod.
John the Baptist called the people to repent and seek the Kingdom of God and was offering an alternative system based on the righteousness of charity rather than covetousness and force.
The Called out of Christ would institute the Corban of Christ with these Lively Stones of a Living Altar and a daily ministration of Pure Religion to provide all social welfare for early Christians they would not eat at the tables of the Herod nor Caesar.
The social welfare system operated through the many temples of the Imperial Cult of Rome and Herod, according to the warnings of men like David to Paul were those dainties that were a snare and a trap. They knew that the free bread of those systems of the world were provided by men who called themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other.[17]
The altar of Jehovahnissi set up by Moses was for the provision and protection[18] of the people like all the Altars of clay and stone. But because they were based on freewill offerings[19], instead of the covetous practices of legal charity, they did not snare the people and degenerate the masses but strengthened the poor and set the captive free.
The priests and ministers of Moses and Jesus who was the Christ were to provide care through a daily ministration of pure Religion funded by the freewill contributions of the people. This social safety net established by Moses and eventually by Jesus provided a daily bread but through charity alone.
While His ministers were also benefactors they did not exercise authority[17] one over the other but only love for one another according to the Divine will of God from the beginning.
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 0600 ףנַאֲ ‘anaph (Aramaic) an-af’ corresponding to 0639 (only in the pl. as a sing.); n m; [BDB-1081b] {See TWOT on 2590} AV-face 1, visage 1; 2
- 1) face, nose
- ↑ 03071 יְהוָֹה נִסִּי Yëhovah nicciy [yeh-ho-vaw’ nis-see’] from 03068 and 05251 with the pr sf; n pr loc; [BDB-651b] [{See TWOT on 484 @@ "484a" }] AV-Jehovahnissi 1; 1 Jehovah-nissi= "Jehovah is my banner"
- 1) the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites
- The term "Jehovah-nissi" may mean “Jehovah Is My Signal Pole,” if nissiʹ is from nes (signal pole). The Greek Septuagint translators understood nissiʹ to be derived from nus (flee for refuge), giving it the meaning “Jehovah Is My Refuge,” but the Latin Vulgate thought nissiʹ derived from nasasʹ (hoist; lift up), thus giving it the meaning “Jehovah Is My Exaltation.”
- If the altars of Abraham and Moses were part of a social safety net like so many other nations then the term "nissi" which is spelled in the Hebrew נִסִּי NunSamechYod may have its origins in the ancient term "nassi".
- The Goddess of welfare in the city-state of Sumer which provided a civil system of social welfare through the Goddess Nanshe which was also spelled Nanse, Nassi, Nazi and who was known as the "protector of the disadvantaged" through her many temples. Syllabic spellings are for example Na-áš, Na-an-še and Na-aš-še. Nanše A. Philological", Heimpel, Wolfgang (1998).
- ↑ Exodus 17:15 "And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:"
- ↑ 03068 יְהוָֹה YodHeyVavHey Yëhovah [yeh-ho-vaw’] from 01961; n pr dei; [BDB-217b] [{See TWOT on 484 @@ "484a" }] AV-LORD 6510, GOD 4, JEHOVAH 4, variant 1; 6519
- Jehovah= "the existing One"
- 1) the proper name of the one true God
- 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of 0136
- י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- ↑ 05251 נֵס nec [nace] from 05264 נָסַס nacac to be lifted up; n m; [BDB-651b] [{See TWOT on 1379 @@ "1379a" }] AV-standard 7, ensign 6, pole 2, banner 2, sail 2, sign 1; 20
- 1) something lifted up, standard, signal, signal pole, ensign, banner, sign, sail
- 1a) standard (as rallying point), signal
- 1b) standard (pole)
- 1c) ensign, signal
- 1) something lifted up, standard, signal, signal pole, ensign, banner, sign, sail
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 05264 נָסַס nacac [naw-sas’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-651b] [{See TWOT on 1379 }] AV-lifted up as an ensign 1; 1
- 1) to be lifted up (meaning dubious)
- 1a) (Hithpoel) to be lifted up, be displayed
- See Jehovahnissi
- 1) to be lifted up (meaning dubious)
- ↑ Zechariah 9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for [they shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign <05264> upon his land.
- ↑ Isaiah 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer <05263> fainteth.
- ↑ 05127 נוּס nuwc [noos] a primitive root; v; [BDB-630b] [{See TWOT on 1327 }] AV-flee 142, flee away 12, abated 1, displayed 1, flight 1, hide 1, flee out 1, lift up a standard 1, variant 1; 161
- 1) to flee, escape
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to flee
- 1a2) to escape
- 1a3) to take flight, depart, disappear
- 1a4) to fly (to the attack) on horseback
- 1b) (Polel) to drive at
- 1c) (Hithpolel) to take flight
- 1d) (Hiphil)
- 1d1) to put to flight
- 1d2) to drive hastily
- 1d3) to cause to disappear, hide
- 1a) (Qal)
- See Jehovahnissi
- 1) to flee, escape
- ↑ 05257 נְסִיךְ nëciyk [nes-eek’] from 05258; n m; [BDB-651a, BDB-651b] [{See TWOT on 1375 @@ "1375b" }] [{See TWOT on 1377 @@ "1377a" }] AV-prince 3, drink offering 1, duke 1, principal 1; 6
- 1) poured out, libation, molten image, one anointed
- 1a) libation, drink-offering
- 1b) molten image
- 2) prince, anointed one
- See Jehovahnissi
- 1) poured out, libation, molten image, one anointed
- ↑ 05258 נָסַךְ nacak \@naw-sak’\@ [NunSamechKaf] a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 1375} {See TWOT on 1377} AV-pour out 12, pour 4, cover 3, offer 2, melteth 1, molten 1, set 1, set up 1; 25
- 1) to pour out, pour, offer, cast
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to pour out
- 1a2) to cast metal images
- 1a3) to anoint (a king)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be anointed
- 1c) (Piel) to pour out (as a libation)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to pour out libations
- 1e) (Hophal) to be poured out
- 1a) (Qal)
- 2) to set, install
- 2a) (Qal) to install
- 2b) (Niphal) to be installed
- Same as 05259 נָסַךְ nacak "to weave" as in fuse; 05260 נָסַךְ nëcak "offer" as in pour; 05261 נְסַךְ nëcak "drink offering" as in a libation offering poured; 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek "offering" as in a drink offering and even molten image in Isaiah 48:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17.
- See Jehovahnissi.
- 1) to pour out, pour, offer, cast
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ "..., according to the Ur III period (c. 2100-2000 B.C.) Sumerian text called “The Nanshe Hymn,” persons who gained their sustenance or other economic benefits from the temple of the goddess Nanshe were responsible for adhering to the cultic and ethical rules of the goddess. (Trans. Wolfgang Heimpel, “To Nanshe,” COS 1.162:526-31.)" The God Who is Affected by Human Problems: Atonement Through Israelite Purification Offerings, Roy E. Gane, Andrews University.
- ↑ Syllabic spellings are for example Na-áš, Na-an-še and Na-aš-še. Nanše A. Philological", Heimpel, Wolfgang (1998).
- ↑ Fifth part
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
- ↑ 07133 ^ןברק^ qorban \@kor-bawn’\@ KufReishBeitNun or ^ןברק^ qurban \@koor-bawn’\@ from 07126 KufReishBeit without the Nun is also translated offer but can mean to draw near, This is the word we see as corban in Greek 2878 ~κορβαν~; n m; {See TWOT on 2065 @@ "2065e"} AV-offering 68, oblation 12, offered 1, sacrifice 1; 82
- 1) offering, oblation
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ "Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection." Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65."
- ↑ A Freewill offering is charity which is love.
- Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering<08641>: of every man that giveth it willingly<05068> with his heart ye shall take my offering<08641>.
- Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering<08641> unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing<05081> heart, let him bring it, an offering<08641> of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
- Exodus 35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;
- Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing<05068>, [and] they brought the LORD’S offering<08641> to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering<05071> unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing<05068> to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
- Exodus 36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering<08641>, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And they brought yet unto him free offerings <05071> every morning.
- Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering <07133-Corban> unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering <07133-Corban> of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will <07522> at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
- Leviticus 2:4 "And if thou bring an oblation <07133> of a meat offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if thy oblation <07133-Corban> [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
- Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a voluntary offering <05071>, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
- Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation<07133-Corban> for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings<05071>, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering<05071> of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
- Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill <05069> to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee....15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered <05069> unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem, 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering <05069> of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly <05069> for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem: