YAHWEH'S TIME VS MAN'S TIME - GENESIS

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- In Genesis chapter 1, we are told about the creation of the heavens and the earth!

- What about before?

- Before there was Yah.weh!

- And his son!

- And the angels!

- And there is no notion of time!

- Then we are told about the days of creation!

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Yom (Hebrew: יום‎) is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible. The word means day in both Modern and Biblical Hebrew.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
Point of time (a specific day)
time period of a whole or half a day:
Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
Sunrise to sunset
Sunset to next sunset
General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
A year "lived a lot of days"
Time period of unspecified length.

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Biblical Hebrew has a limited vocabulary, with fewer words compared to other languages, such as English or Spanish. This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context. Strong's Lexicon yom is Hebrew #3117 The word Yom's root meaning is to be hot as the warm hours of a day.

Thus "yom", in its context, is sometimes translated as: "time" (Gen 4:3, Is. 30:; "year" (I Kings 1:1, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Amos 4:4); "age" (Gen 18:11, 24:1 and 47:28; Joshua 23:1 and 23:2); "always" (Deuteronomy 5:29, 6:24 and 14:23, and in 2 Chronicles 18:7); "season" (Genesis 40:4, Joshua 24:7, 2 Chronicles 15:3); epoch or 24-hour day (Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31)

Yom relates to the concept of time. Yom is not just for day, days, but for time in general. How yom is translated depends on the context of its use with other words in the sentence around it, using hermeneutics.

The word day is used somewhat the same way in the english language, examples: “In my grandfather’s day, cars did not go very fast” or “In the day of the dinosaurs there were not many mammals.”

The word Yom is used in the name of various Jewish feast days and in each of the days of the week in the Hebrew calendar.

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- Thus right in the beginning, it is easy to understand that the notion of time according to ancient Hebrew and modern languages is completely different!

- Many people can’t imagine there are big differences between ancient languages and modern languages!

- Just think about first names: in ancient languages, they are always connected to religions and gods, in modern languages, they are not connected!

- The problem is that many modern first names come from ancient Hebrew!

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- If we look at an interlinear translation in Hebrew and English, it is easy to visualize how ancient Hebrew is far away from modern English!

- If we look at an interlinear translation in ancient Greek and English, it is easy to visualize that there is not such a difference!

- And the majority keep thinking as if there was no difference at all!

- Moreover, ancient Hebrew is a basic language whereas ancient Greek is about an incredible civilization which conquered and influenced the whole world!

- Moreover, ancient Greek is probably the richest language in the world!

- Thus, a basic language (ancient Hebrew), the richest language (ancient Greek) and our modern languages which are more developed compared to ancient Hebrew but basic compared to ancient Greek!

- And the majority keep thinking as if there was no difference at all!

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- Then we can add man’s corruption and Greek philosophy and people going to religious meetings and you get a mixed salad which has nothing but nothing to do with the original text!

- you can also add the fact that the translators of the Septuagint were Hebrews!

According to tradition, Ptolemy II Philadelphus (the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt) sent seventy-two Hebrew translators—six from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel—from Jerusalem to Alexandria to translate the Tanakh from Biblical Hebrew into Koine Greek, for inclusion in his library.

- Thus their translation was influenced by their religious traditions, in particular their tradition to replace God’s name (Yah.weh) and you get a fast food hamburger which has nothing to do with the original text!

- So maybe it is sufficient for people who are hearers of the word of Yah.weh!

- But not for people who are doers of His word!

- And we come back to Joshua and Caleb on the one hand, and on the other hand, the majority who were only hearers of His word!