Thank-you for your input.
Blessings,
Lynne
momhs2hs wrote:
Lynne, I would STRONGLY urge you to dig a bit deeper and seek some
original research. While the word SHaD has a literal meaning and on
the surface means "breasted" (I have also heard "horned"), there is a
greater meaning at work here. This is where the literal misses the
greater point. The word is also use as sufficient or more than
sufficient. Just as a mother seems (and really seemed back then) to
have enough milk for the babe (be it human, goat, sheep, cow, whatever
they were raising), she also had enough milk for several other things
or orphaned babes. This brought to the minds of the people "more than
sufficient". That concept is also used during the Passover - More than
enough. It is also used to describe the "glowing" of Moses. (Hence the
early Roman pagan connection with the SUN god and all of those glowing
heads in the early Christian paintings.)
While beating on the woman-drum many have missed the greater point and
made YHVH merely another deity in the pantheon of false gods. And
sadly some will go with the Asherah god as the Woman god of the
Hebrews. DO NOT GO THERE! (Shouting really loudly here!). This is
where the concrete literal meets a greater description of YHVH and
does not give His gender in some secret code.
As for "respected" source, the literal meaning of the word is common
knowledge. Call up any Bible college with a Hebrew class and ask the
professor. The transferred meaning of the word is also common
knowledge but you need to look into Jewish sources for the original
thought on that.
Yep, I am a woman.
Dee
--
May His richest blessings be with you,
Lynne Erickson Valle - Psalms 45:1
Please visit my online Christian news site at: Dove Press
<http://www.dovepress.net>
Visit my page at: Kansas City Non-Denominational Christian Examiner
<http://www.examiner.com/x-21219-Kansas-City-Nondenominational-Christian-Examiner>
Kansas City Examiner.com <http://www.examiner.com/Kansas_City>
Please sign up for a free subscription to my page at the top of any of
my articles. Thank you
for helping to reclaim the influence of media for the Kingdom of God!
Please visit my personal business at: Dove Studio
<http://www.dovestudio.net>
