Kabad (kaw-bad’)
dbk
כָּבַד
| k | The ‘Kaf’ is the picture of the palm of a hand and can mean to open, allow, or invite entry. |
| b | The ‘Bet’ illustrates the floorplan of a tent and represents home or family. |
| d | The ‘Dalet’ looks like door flap of a tent and indicates the idea of a doorway, journey, or pathway. |
Honor is what opens the inside door.
h Hey Behold | E Ayin Look | v Vav Nail | S Shin Separate | y Yud Hand |
| As pictographs, the letters combine to mean ‘Behold, see how a hand will save or separate by a nail.’ But it is actually a compound word consisting of ‘Ya’ (God) and the root word ‘shuah’ (to rescue). In the Armor of God, the Helmet of Salvation is Yeshuah, the one who secures our rescue or salvation. |
| y | The ‘Yud’ in pictograph form shows an arm and a hand. The picture can mean to work, throw, worship, or it can simply mean an arm or hand. |
| sS | The ‘Shin’ may be depicted differently depending on the time period, but represents two front teeth and can mean sharp, eat, consume, separate, or destroy. |
| v | The ‘Vav’ represents a tent peg or nail and means to secure or hook. But it can also simply mean peg or nail. |
| E | The ‘Ayin’ appears as an eye. It relates to the function of the eye, understanding, or knowledge. |
| hH | The ‘Hey’ appears as a man waving his arms. It relates to pay attention, hehold, reveal. |
q Quph Follow | D Dalet Journey | F Tsade Seek |
As part of the Armor of God, the Breastplate of Righteousness represents seeking a journey that follows God. |
F | The ‘Tsade’ represents a man searching or seeking and means hunter, catch, or desire. |
D | The ‘Dalet’ represents a tent flap or door as going in and out of a door or a journey. |
q | The ‘Quph’ character appears like the back of man’s head or a sunset and means last, behind, following, revolving or cycle of time. |
t Tau Covenant | M Mem Water | a Aleph Strong |
The Belt of Truth is an important item in the Armor of God used in spiritual warfare. The Aleph and Mem together create the word “Mother,” the strong water that nurtures and holds a family together. The word “Truth” means to nurture the covenant. |
a | The ‘Aleph’ is the picture of an ox head and illustrates the strength of an animal. It can mean strong, power, or leader. |
M | The ‘Mem’ illustrates water or waves. As a nomadic people, the Hebrews feared the waves or waters of the seas, so the letter often meant chaos, mighty, or blood. On the other hand, water sustained life and in this instance, it carries that meaning. |
t | The ‘Tau’ is used as a man’s mark, either like a signature on an agreement or even a crossed sticks on the ground to mark a boundary point. Either way, it is associated with an agreement or covenant between two people or between man and God. |
M Mem Chaos | v Vav Establish | l Lamed Authority | s Shin Destroy |
Destroy the authority that establishes chaos. In this illustration as part of the Armor of God, the Shoes of Peace indicate we need to to be walking or pursuing. If we do the walking, God will destroy the chaos ahead of us. |
sS | The ‘Shin’ represents two front teeth and can mean sharp, eat, consume, separate, or destroy. |
l | The ‘Lamed’ is a picture of a shepherd’s staff. The shepherd used the staff to exercise authority over the sheep to direct or lead them. It can mean teach, lead, yoke, move forward, or authority. |
v | The ‘Vav’ represents a tent peg or nail and means to secure or hook. But it can also simply mean peg or nail. |
M | The ‘Mem’ illustrates water or waves. As a nomadic people, the Hebrews did not understand the waves or waters of the ocean. So the letter came to mean chaos, mighty, or blood. |
H Hey Behold | n Nun Life/Heir | v Vav Secure | M Mem Water | a Aleph Strong |
The pictograph portrays getting our attention, ‘Behold’, the root of Em (mother or giver of life) who seeks to establish continual life or activity in us. Faith is the actions of our life that reveal our relationship with the life giver. Our faith brings a life that has purpose. When our actions come into agreement with the Lord, the enemy’s weapons cannot penetrate the Shield of Faith. |
a | The ‘Aleph’ is the picture of an ox head and illustrates the strength of an animal. It can mean strong, power, or leader. |
M | The ‘Mem’ illustrates water or waves. As a nomadic people, the Hebrews feared the waves or waters of the ocean. So the letter came to mean chaos, mighty, or blood. |
v | The ‘Vav’ pictures a tent peg or nail. It means to secure, connect, or establish. |
n | The ‘Nun’ represents a seed or sprout and gives us the meaning of continuing to a new generation. It can have the meaning of continuing, perpetuating, sustaining, offspring, or heir. |
hH | The ‘Hey’ pictograph represents a man with his hands in the air trying to get someone’s attention. It suggests look, reveal, behold. |
r Resh Man | B Beyt Home | D Dalet Door |
The only offensive weapon is the Sword of the Spirit, which is The Word of God (Debar). Words, in the ancient thought process, had substance. Sentences were an ordered arrangement of ideas that ordered lives. The Word of God makes the enemy back down. The more a person is in command of the Word, the more effective soldier he will be. |
D | The ‘Dalet’ represents a tent flap or door. It can also mean back and forth movement as in going in and out of a door or a journey. |
B | The ‘Beyt’ depicts the floor plan of a tent. It means home, inside, or family. |
r | The ‘Resh’ symbolizes a head, man, chief, highest, top, beginning, or first. |
Salvation → Yeshuah → hEvSy
Righteous → Tsedeq → qDF
Truth → Emet → tMa
Peace → Shalom → Mvls
Faith → Emunah → HnvMa
Word → Debar → rBD
The specially matted print of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew), as presented by Artist Marla Jean Clinesmith, may well portray one of the most vibrant Biblical word pictures of all time.
Pesach (peh’-sakh)
CuP
פסח
| P | The ‘Pey’ represents an open mouth and means speak, open, blow, or apart. It often is used to mean ‘Spirit’ as in the wind. |
| u | The ‘Samech’ represents a thorn bush that would prop up, support, twist, turn, or snare. |
| C | The ‘Chet’ illustrates a fence or wall surrounding and protecting the action of life. |
In simple terms, it means to crossover or leap, as in God’s Spirit will leap over the marked homes in Exodus Chapter 12. But there is so much more to it. This is the action taken by God (hvhy), the ultimate judge of His own creation, as His Spirit passed over all the households of Egypt to dispense death to the firstborn of Pharaoh, his people, and gods. The only thing that protected God’s people from this deadly plague was the blood of the sacrificed lamb applied to the lintel and door posts of the houses of God’s people. At the sight of the doors marked with blood, the Spirit of God (Pey P) turned away (Samach u) the wrath of God from the walls or boundaries (Chet C) of the homes of those marked as God’s people.
The entire scene was a physical foreshadow of the spiritual reality that Yeshua, the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, will bring to completion with His death on a cross planted on a hill called Golgotha in Jerusalem generations later.
It’s here, however, that our word picture presents a mystery. If the cross is the ultimate solution to the sin condition separating God and man – why two door posts? Some would speculate a connotation of the lintel and two door posts representing the Crown of thorns and nail pierced hands of the Savior. And while the scriptural account is somewhat silent on this matter, it does record in Exodus 12:37-38 ‘Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also …,’ indicating both Jews and Gentiles were saved on that night.
As for me, the picture reminds me of the encouraging words of the Apostle Paul recorded in Ephesians Chapter 2 as he assures us that Christ’s death on the cross made two, both Jews and Gentiles, one thus bringing us the ultimate in peace.
To that we can all proclaim – Hallelujah!!!
Explanation by Pastor Jim Woodard
M Mem Chaos | v Vav Establish | L Lamed Authority | s Shin Destroy | t Tav Covenent | B Bet House | s Shin Separate |
Together the words signify “to separate to the house of the covenant where the authority that establishes chaos has been destroyed” and “Rest in the Lord in peace” |
s | The ‘Shin’ represents two front teeth and can mean sharp, eat, consume, separate, or destroy. |
B | The ‘Bet’ shows the floor plan of a tent. It means home, inside, or family. |
t | The ‘Tav’ represents a sign, mark, covenant, or cross. |
s | The ‘Shin’ represents two front teeth and can mean sharp, eat, consume, separate, or destroy. |
L | The ‘Lamed’ is a picture of a shepherd’s staff. The shepherd used the staff to exercise authority over his sheep to direct or lead them. It can mean teach, lead, yoke, or move forward. |
v | The ‘Vav’ represents a tent peg or nail and means to secure or establish. |
M | The ‘Mem’ illustrates water or waves. As a nomadic people, the Hebrews feared the waves or waters of the seas, so the letter often meant chaos, mighty, or blood. |
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