כהן↔︎עין – also צף study
Leviticus 19:21-22
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, a ram as a trespass offering. 22 The priest (h3548. כֹּהֵן ḵôhên) shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed. And the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
VaYikra 19:21-22
21 והביא את־אשמו ליהוה אל־פתח אהל מועד איל אשם׃
22 וכפר עליו הכהן באיל האשם לפני יהוה על־חטאתו אשר חטא ונסלח לו מחטאתו אשר חטא׃ ף
- Looking at cognate permutations, כהן is עין. priest ↔︎ eye.
Proverbs 15:3
3 The eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) of the LORD are in every place,
Keeping watch (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) on the evil and the good.
Mishlei 15:3
3 בכל־מקום עיני יהוה צפות רעים וטובים׃
h5869 + h6822
⦁ 2 Samuel 13:34-39
34 But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) lifted up his eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain. 35 And Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.” 36 And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.
37 But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day. 38 So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 39 And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.
⦁ 2 Samuel 18:19-30
19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me run now and take the news to the king, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”
20 And Joab said to him, “You shall not take the news (h1309. בְּשׂוֹרָה ḇeśôrâ) this day, for you shall take the news (h1319. בָּשַׂר ḇâśar) another day. But today you shall take no news (h1319. בָּשַׂר ḇâśar), because the king’s son is dead.” 21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what (h0834. אֲשֶׁר ’ăšer) you have seen (h7200. רָאָהrâ’â).” So the Cushite bowed himself to Joab and ran.
22 And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, “But whatever happens, please let me also run after the Cushite.”
So Joab said, “Why will you run, my son, since you have obtained no news (h1309. בְּשׂוֹרָה ḇeśôrâ)?”
23 “But whatever happens,” he said, “let me run.”
So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.
24 Now David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman (h6822. צָפָהṣâp̱â) went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) and looked, and there was a man, running alone. 25 Then the watchman (h6822. צָפָהṣâp̱â) cried out and told the king. And the king said, “If he (is) alone, (there is) news(h1309. בְּשׂוֹרָה ḇeśôrâ) in his mouth.” And he came rapidly and drew near.
26 Then the watchman (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) saw (another) man running, and the watchman (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) called to the gatekeeper and said, “There is (another) man, running alone!”
And the king said, “He also brings news (h1319. בָּשַׂר ḇâśar).”
27 So the watchman (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.”
And the king said, “He is a good (h2896. טוֹב ṭôḇ) man, and comes with good (h2896. טוֹב ṭôḇ) news (h1309. בְּשׂוֹרָה ḇeśôrâ).”
28 So Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “All is well!” Then he bowed down with his face to the earth before the king, and said, “Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king!”
29 The king said, “Is the young man Absalom safe?”
Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was about.”
30 And the king said, “Turn aside and stand here.” So he turned aside and stood still.
IN ALHATORAH LOOK UP צפ
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⦁ 1 Samuel 1:1-7 (NKJV – The Family of Elkanah)
1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph (h6689. צוּף ṣûp̱), an Ephraimite. 2 And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. 4 And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb. 6 And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.
▸ h6689. צוּף ṣûp̱; or צוֹפַי Tsowphay; or צִיף Tsiyph; from h6688. צוּף ṣûp̱; honey-comb; Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine: — Zophai, Zuph.
AV (4) – Zuph 4; n pr m Zuph or Zophai = “honeycomb”
a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel n pr loc
a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel
▸ h6688. צוּף ṣûp̱; from h6687. צוּף ṣûp̱; comb of honey (from dripping): — honeycomb.
AV (2) – honeycomb 2;
honeycomb
▸ h6687. צוּף ṣûp̱; a primitive root; to overflow: — (make to over-)flow, swim.
AV (3) – flow 1, overflow 1, swim 1;
to flow, overflow, flood, float
(Qal) to flood
(Hiphil)
to cause to flow over
to cause to float
•צף none ((see connections h6855. צִפֹּרָה ṣip̱ôrâ (Moses’s wife Zipporah) p.221 צפרcover completely and p.220 צפה cover; lay over – and see 1S7:16 Mizpah AND h6828. צָפוֹן ṣâp̱ôn; or צָפֹן tsaphon; from h6845. צָפַן ṣâp̱an North))
Also see Isaiah 38:14 אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף (h6850. צָפַף ṣâp̱ap̱; a primitive root; to coo or chirp (as a bird): — chatter, peep, whisper.
AV (4) – peep 2, chatter 1, whisper 1;
(Pilpel) to chirp, peep
of birds
of ghosts
GV p.221 צפף emit [high-pitched] sound; p.220 צפה cover [lay over]; p.214 צוף cover [float on top]
CM צפף and צוף move in/out (E3); צפה control movement/action (E5)
(( see Nm11:4 וְהָֽאסַפְסֻף֙ “rabble,” “mixed multitude” GV p.175 ספף enter; p.174 ספהheap [combine for negative purpose]; p.174 ספא feed [animals; provide fodder]; p.169 סוף limit; p.105 יסף increase [continue]
DV p.175 ספף enter; p.174 ספה heap [combine for negative purpose] > p.14 אסףgather [collect from inappropriate place] No other DVs
CM ספף and סוף move in/out (E3); ספה and ספא control movement/action (E5); יסףlead forward/astray (C56); אסף engage/disengage (A23) ))
Note this word (h6982. קוֹרָה qôrâ) and this passage were featured in Post 28. Log and Speck Revisited, in addition to Genesis 19, the visitation of the Angels to Lot in Sodom. It is a connection to the discussion that brings the title of the website. It relates to the idea discussed several times about our house, our dwelling, where we live, and apparently the “sons of the prophets,” the students of Elisha, do not like all the rules of Elisha’s house and want a place of their own. It is “ironic” that the power of Elisha, the man of God, has to rescue them in their attempt. As in adolescence, we want our freedom, but we really are not quite ready. It is a message on a much higher level of God’s mercy in helping us in our stubborn independence even when we are unkind to him. We want nothing to do with God’s ways except when it benefits us.
Consider how it relates to assumptive reasoning and re-read Matthew 7:1-5.
③ flowing ●
⑤ honeycomb
⦁ Proverbs 16:23-24
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth,
And adds (h3254. יָסַף yâsap̱) learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb (h6688. צוּף ṣûp̱ + h1706. דְּבַשׁ ḏeḇaš),
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
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⦁ 1 Samuel 9:1-6 (NKJV – Saul Chosen to Be King)
1 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. 2 And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
3 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. And Kish said to his son Saul, “Please take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.” 4 So he passed through the mountains of Ephraim and through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.
5 When they had come to the land of Zuph (h6689. צוּף ṣûp̱), Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.”
6 And he said to him, “Look now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.”
- This “man of God” is Samuel, whose family is spoken of in the 1 Samuel 1 passage above – full context the entire chapter 1, continuing in chapter 2:1-11.
⦁ Proverbs 16:23-24
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth,
And adds (h3254. יָסַף yâsap̱) learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb (h6688. צוּף ṣûp̱ + h1706. דְּבַשׁ ḏeḇaš),
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
⦁ Psalms 66:5-7
5 Come and see what God has done:
he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
7 who rules by his might forever,
whose eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) keep watch (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) on the nations—
let not the rebellious/stubborn exalt themselves. Selah
Tehilim 66:5-7
5 לכו וראו מפעלות אלהים נורא עלילה על־בני אדם׃
6 הפך ים ליבשה בנהר יעברו ברגל שם נשמחה־בו׃
7 משל בגבורתו עולם עיניו בגוים תצפינה הסוררים אל־ירימו למו סלה׃
⦁ Song of Songs 7:1-9
1 How beautiful (h3302. יָפָה yâp̱â) are your feet (h6471. פַּעַם p̱a‘am) in sandals,
O noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
which looks (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How beautiful and pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your mouth like the best wine.
SHE
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.
⦁ Isaiah 52:3-12
3 For thus says the LORD: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord GOD: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the LORD, “and continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
7 How beautiful (h4998. נָאָה nâ’â) upon the mountains
are the feet (h7272. רֶגֶל reg̱el) of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of your watchmen (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â)—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
for eye (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) to eye (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) they see
the return of the LORD to Zion.
9 Break forth together into singing,
you waste places of Jerusalem,
for the LORD has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has bared his holy arm
before the eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
you who bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the LORD will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
⦁ Lamentations 4:11-17
11 The LORD gave full vent to his wrath;
he poured out his hot anger,
and he kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed its foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
nor any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
the gates of Jerusalem.
13 This was for the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
14 They wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
that no one was able to touch
their garments.
15 “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”
16 The LORD himself has scattered them;
he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
no favor to the elders.
17 Our eyes (h5869. עַיִן ‘aiyn) failed, ever watching
vainly for help;
in our watching (h6836. צְפִיָּה ṣep̱îyâ) we watched (h6822. צָפָה ṣâp̱â)
for a nation which could not save.
- (instead of watching for the LORD – see “watch” in Mark 13:33-37 and 14:34-38; Luke 21:36)
Eikah איכה 4:17
17 עודינה תכלינה עינינו אל־עזרתנו הבל בצפיתנו צפינו אל־גוי לא יושע׃ ס
- Note 2K6:6 was covered with צוף, as were Ps19:11, Lm4:17, and Dt11:4.
- These are all very important, and the writer encourages the reader to look them up. In the hopes of keeping the entry not terribly burdensome, the focus here will be on only ② overlaying, because it will serve as our Tabernacle connection for today. And the hope is that this Tabernacle connection will help the reader see a very, very important message, when combined with some other points from this entry, and some points in an upcoming entry on Acacia. But you will have to recall this when that one comes up:
② overlaying
⦁ Exodus 36:35-36
35 And he made a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet (thread), and fine woven linen; it was worked (with) an artistic design of cherubim. 36 He made for it four pillars of acacia (h7848. שִׁטָּה šiṭâ) (wood), and overlaid (h6823. צָפָה ṣâp̱â) them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.
- See all of the times the צפ words in bold in this AlHaTorah search appear – these are “overlaid,” all in the Tabernacle. And seen also in Ex38:28 – beyond the screenshot reach.
How to say – the actions of Satan are a necessary part of Creation on this earth? So very often, the only way to get to good is first to see the evil. And this is why it is best not to eat of that tree. Do you think that God is unable to rid the world of Satan? If the purpose of life on this earth is for us to learn how to live with God in God’s world, there is much here to learn. And how do we learn without challenges to overcome? Do we step up to the plate? What if the biggest challenge is that we see only what we want to see in ourselves? What if we are like King Saul, never feeling good enough and always needing approval from others? Or what if we are like Nebuchadnezzar:
⦁ Daniel 4:30-34
30 The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
31 While the word was still in the king’s mouth, a voice fell from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you! 32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.”
33 That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
34 And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever:
For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
And His kingdom is from generation to generation.
The writer was a member of a congregation at one point when the leader of the congregation stood in front of those attending and read Job 1:1-12, and then blatantly said, “We don’t believe like that.” It takes a blind leader to make a statement that our assumptive reasoning overrides Scripture…“What I believe is more important than what God’s word says.” (See Matthew 15:14.) Far better that we question ourselves than that we question God’s word.
Hopefully you are familiar with the book of Job. The gist is that, though he was a righteous man, it took severe interruptions in his life to awaken him to who God really is, and how small he is by comparison. Humility is what he lacked, and what so many of us lack. Often it is only what we see as evil occurrences in our lives that can bring us to the point of understanding, from which the good comes.
If you do not want to hear any more about this, then please don’t return to the website for a future entry that should come before too much longer. You have the “punch line” now. It is seen in the riddle from Samson shared here. If you went back to read the context, and you know that a Lion is an unclean animal. And touching an unclean animal that is dead is doubly unclean. And Samson was a Nazirite, supposed to be utterly clean. And he takes the honey from the dead lion carcass and gives to his parents without telling them the source (might be considered both not honoring father and mother and deception). But his riddle is that something good comes from it. And the revelation is on the seventh day, p.254 שבע submit to God; complete. Good very often is the result of hard circumstances in our lives that we would say are from the Adversary (HaSatan). Does God allow evil in our lives? He does. And when necessary even creates it:
- Two things to note here. Note verse seven marked with the triangle ▶︎. He says he creates both. And… note that Cyrus is God’s anointed (h4899. מָשִׁיחַ mâšiyaḥ). Sometimes we are just so far gone that there is only one way out.
⦁ Isaiah 45:1-7 – (NKJV – Cyrus, God’s Instrument)
1 “Thus says the LORD to His anointed (h4899. מָשִׁיחַ mâšiyaḥ),
To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
2 ‘I will go before you
And make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the LORD,
Who call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other;
▶︎ 7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the LORD, do all these things.‘
There are different ways that we may be “too far gone.” One way is surely that we become numb to smaller levels of evil in our lives, so that it takes a much bigger shaking to awaken us. We get so used to tragedy on the television screen (for example) that it takes a really, really big event to bring us back to “watching for the LORD (יהוה).” Thus we are often really the cause. God reacts to our foolishness in his devoted role to serve as a guide toward the good. Spend some time with צפה.
A closing remark. A small word.
⦁ Micah 1:8-10
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
9 For her wounds are incurable.
For it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.
10 Tell (it) not in Gath,
Weep not at all;
In Beth Aphrah
Roll yourself, roll yourself in the dust.
This likely just sounds like “Bible talk” to the reader. It is about self-pity. Major self pity. Let’s cover some words here. First, Gath is גת, the winepress, from p.44 גתתpress. Beth is בית “house of,” Aphrah and dust are from עפר .עפר is about mourning (p.189 עפר cover with earthy substance), as in “dust (עפר) and ashes (אפר).” Roll yourself, doubled, is התפלשתי התפלשי, another one of those scary-looking hitpael forms, doing something to yourself. The root is פלש. To make it more clear, Strongs uses the word “wallow.”
Wallowing in our self pity is what we tend to do. It is what Job was doing much of the book of Job. Two more loose ends to be tied up. The first is that פלש is also the root for Philistine. In the end of his life, the mighty Samson was captured and blinded and ridiculed.
⦁ Judges 16:30
30 Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.
He killed off more “wallowing in it” with his ridicule and his death than he had in his life. (Has anyone else done that?)
The second “loose end” is to revisit dust עפר. You will notice that both dust עפר and ashes אפר are phonetic cognates of p.178 עבר, cross over to other side; move to different condition, which is the root for Hebrew. And, if the reader has not already seen the importance, this root עפר, dust, is what this life is all about.
⦁“For dust עפר you are,
And to dust עפר you shall return.”
⦁ Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust עפר of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (h5397. נְשָׁמָה nešâmâ) of life; and man became a living being.
עבר crossing over is the essence of life on this earth. We can choose to “wallow in it,” to “wail and howl,” or we can choose to be silent and accept it as a necessary part of having the breath (h5397. נְשָׁמָה nešâmâ) of life breathed into us. Notice that שם, “the Name,” is at the heart of h5397. נְשָׁמָה nešâmâ. And for that reason, we should glory in it, praise and be thankful. Take up whatever burden has been given to you to bear, and be thankful for your God-given task. You will (guaranteed) face opposition. And you will be better (h2896. טוֹב ṭôḇ) for it. From evil רע, God will make good טוב. The key is in our own perception.
Isaiah 45:7
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the LORD, do all these things.‘
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