I took Jeff Brenner’s Ancient Hebrew course at
Udemy.com. He noticed the NAME YHWH
includes a “nail” and a “hand” with “behold”/”look” representing Christ’s
crucifixion. I noticed the heh
glyph looks like a crucified man raising himself up with bent elbows to exhale
(making the /heh/ sound; crucified exhale) before allowing his body weight to straighten his arms
to inhale. The heh glyph does not
include the feet. Jesus’ feet were most
likely placed on top of the other with a single nail driven through both into
the post.
To the Hebrews, the hand includes the wrist. When washing their “hands” they would have
someone else pour water over their upright hands (thus also washing their
forearms), much like a doctor washes his hands before surgery. Jesus Christ was crucified with nails between
the two bones (radius and ulna) in His wrists.
If hands had nails driven through the palms, the crucified person’s
body-weight would cause the flesh of their palms to rip.
Jesus was crucified on a T-shaped cross of two pieces of
wood. The upper horizontal portion was
the part which the criminal carried to the crucifixion site. The upper portion was called the patibulum
in Latin (the language of the Romans). Patibulum
is derived from the verb patere meaning “to be open” as the patibulum
was the horizontal piece of wood which barred the gate and had to be removed to
open the gate. The patibulum was
typically 5-6 feet long weighing 100-125 pounds. Jesus often told His disciples
they needed to pick up their “cross” (Matthew 16:24; Mark 10:21; and Luke 9:23)
which is stauros in Greek, meaning wooden stake or post from the root stao
meaning tree or stump. This lower vertical
portion of the cross is stipes in Latin, meaning trunk, stake, or pale
(as to “impale” upon); and ranged from 6-8 feet tall with the taller ones often
reserved for festivals. For prolonged
torture a seat (sedile in Latin) of wood was attached to the stipes. Christ’s crucifixion needed to be quick, so His
cross was short, and did not have a seat or a foot rest. In the 2016 movie Risen, a unique pin
& hinge system is used for the stipes (Risen trailer view seconds 21-26). This would remove the stipes from view
of the Temple courtyard during their holy days; if indeed, the “place of the
skull (kranion)” was northeast of the Temple and the sheep gate (golgotha).
I am Aleph and Tav, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. Revelation 22:13-14
In Hebrew tav means “seal” and “sign” and “to
covenant”, and is represented by a lower-case ‘t’ letter. A wooden plaque with the criminal’s name and
crime was called a titulus and was carried by a soldier ahead of the
criminal, and then secured to the top of the cross. If the titulus was secured so that most of it
was above the patibulum, the whole cross shape would appear to be a
lower-case ‘t’ letter.
To some Jewish scholars the Tetragrammaton represents the Hebrew
phrase “Hayah hoveh yi’yeh” which translated means “He was, He is, He
will be”. This seems similar to Hebrews
13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
and today, and forever.”