Tents and Cities
Tents and Cities
It was Cain[1] who built[2] the first city.[3]
When the Bible says Cain builded a city the word translated built[2] is the word banah (בָּנָה) which is similar to the Hebrew word for son which is Ben (בֵּן)[4] for the heads of these city-states were the Fathers of the citizens under the civil law.
Some of these descendants lived in tents.[5]
Abram and Lot lived[6] in tents[7] but Lot moved to the city of Sodom.
It seems that it was often difficult to find righteous people living in cities.[8]
When the Pharaoh would gather grain for the seven good years he gathered that food in the structure of a city type system.[9] And when the people came to eat his free bread they were removed to those cities.[10]
Which allowed the Pharaoh to build his treasure cities[11] which often become cities of blood.
Nimrod also built the city of Babylon just like Sumer and other city-states like Sodom which all had systems of of social welfare that was a snare and weakens the masses through a process of degeneration.
Living in tents
Abraham and Jacob were plain or mild[12] men who dwelt in tents[7] .[13] A word for tents in Hebrew is oleh (אֹהֶל)AlefHeyLamed which is identical to the word ‘ahal 0166 AlefHeyLamed (אָהַל) meaning "to be clear".
The word we see translated plain or mild is also translated blameless and given the Strong's number 08535[12] and spelled TavMem (תָּם) tam and is said to be from tamam (TavMemMem)[14] and often translated consume but defined complete or finish.
The word given the Strong's number 08537 but also spelled TavMem (תֹּם) tom[14] is said to mean integrity and translated upright.
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
The letter combination of TavMem is often appears untranslated or referenced in the text.
Besides living in tents rather than cities they also built altars of Stone and clay. Those altars were not merely piles of stones on which sacrifice were burnt up in a macabre ritual of superstition but were the alternative to the welfare systems or tables of rulers who offered dainties of free bread along with other benefits to snare the people under the civil law or in systems of corvee that make the people merchandise.[[s
Cities like Sumer had a system that provided a Social safety net]] which would bind the people like we see in Sodom, Nimrod's Babylon, or Pharaoh's Bondage of Egypt. This is also why Jesus condemned the Corban of the Pharisees set up by Herod.
Those systems not only degenerate the masses but curse children.
- ↑ Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 01129 ^הנב^ banah \@baw-naw’\@ a primitive root BeitNunHey; v; AV-build 340, build up 14, builder 10, made 3, built again + 08735 2, repair 2, set up 2, have children + 08735 1, obtain children + 08735 1, surely 1 (inf. for emphasis); 376
- 1) to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to build, rebuild
- 1a2) to build a house (ie, establish a family)
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to be built
- 1b2) to be rebuilt
- 1b3) established (of restored exiles) (fig.)
- 1b4) established (made permanent)
- 1b5) to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue
- ↑ 05892 ^ריע^ ‘iyr \@eer\@ AyinYodReish or (in the plural) ^רע^ ‘ar \@awr\@ or ^ריע^ ‘ayar (#Jud 10:4) \@aw-yar’\@ a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); from 05782 spelled AyinVavReish עוּר ‘uwr [oor] a primitive root [identical to 05783 עוּר to be exposed, translated "Naked" through the idea of opening the eyes]; v; [BDB-734b] [{See TWOT on 1 587 }] AV-(stir, lift … .) up 40, awake 25, wake 6, raise 6, arise 1, master 1, raised out 1, variant 1; 81
- 1) to rouse oneself, awake, ; n m; {See TWOT on 1587 @@ "1587a"} {See TWOT on 1615} AV-city 1074, town 7, every one 2, variant 6; 1089
- 1) excitement, anguish
- 1a) of terror
- 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
- 2a) city, town
- ↑ 01121 בֵּן ben [bane] from 01129 build; n m; [BDB-119b, BDB-122a] [{See TWOT on 254 }] AV-son 2978, children 1568, old 135, first 51, man 20, young 18, young + 01241 17, child 10, stranger 10, people 5, misc 92; 4906
- 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group
- 1a) son, male child
- 1b) grandson
- 1c) children (pl. — male and female)
- 1d) youth, young men (pl.)
- 1e) young (of animals)
- 1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for unrighteous men] or sons of God [for angels]
- 1g) people (of a nation) (pl.)
- 1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)
- 1i) a member of a guild, order, class
- ↑ Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
- ↑ Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 0168 אֹהֶל ‘ohel [o’-hel] AlefHeyLamed from 0166 AlefHeyLamed to be clear; n m; [BDB-13b] [{See TWOT on 32 @@ "32a" }]
AV-tabernacle(s) 198, tent(s) 141, dwelling 2, place(s) 2, covering 1, home 1; 345
- 1) tent
- 1a) nomad’s tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience
- 1b) dwelling, home, habitation
- 1c) the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)
- see also 04908
- 1) tent
- ↑ Genesis 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].
- ↑ Genesis 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.
- ↑ Genesis 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
- ↑ Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 08535 ^םת^ tam \@tawm\@ from 08552 completed; adj; {See TWOT on 2522 @@ "2522c"} AV-perfect 9, undefiled 2, plain 1, upright 1; 13
- 1) perfect, complete
- 1a) complete, perfect
- 1a1) one who lacks nothing in physical strength, beauty, etc
- 1b) sound, wholesome
- : 1b1) an ordinary, quiet sort of person
- 1c) complete, morally innocent, having integrity
- 1c1) one who is morally and ethically pure
- 1a) complete, perfect
- 1) perfect, complete
- ↑ Genesis 25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 08552 ^םמת^ tamam \@taw-mam’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 2522} AV-consume 26, end 9, finished 4, clean 3, upright 3, spent 3, perfect 2, done 2, failed 2, accomplish 2, misc 8; 64
- 1) to be complete, be finished, be at an end
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to be finished, be completed
- 1a1a) completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb)
- 1a2) to be finished, come to an end, cease
- 1a3) to be complete (of number)
- 1a4) to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent
- 1a5) to be finished, be consumed, be destroyed
- 1a6) to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright (ethically)
- 1a7) to complete, finish
- 1a8) to be completely crossed over
- 1a1) to be finished, be completed
- 1b) (Niphal) to be consumed
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to finish, complete, perfect
- 1c2) to finish, cease doing, leave off doing
- 1c3) to complete, sum up, make whole
- 1c4) to destroy (uncleanness)
- 1c5) to make sound
- 1d) (Hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to be complete, be finished, be at an end