Do you believe that understanding the pictographic..

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Do you believe that understanding the pictographic meanings of the Hebrew letters that make up a word are an important aspect of understanding the Tanakh?

Definitely!

Somewhat. (Please comment!)

Not at all.

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My personal opinion is that the earliest authors of the Tanakh (Moses, Joshua, etc) had to have been aware of the pictographic origins of their alphabet and could have chosen certain words or certain spellings as a subtle pun. Generally, words are spelled they way they're spelled, and if you want to communicate with other people, you don't have a lot of leeway in that respect. So I can't believe that the pictographs would be a significant element in interpreting the Scriptures, but they might add emphasis or a poetic touch here and there.

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After observing all of the intentional design in anything that comes from scripture (the specific numbers, patterns, prophecies, timelines, etc), I don't think I can believe that the Hebraic character set is without meaning in its design. I don't believe that analyzing individual pictographs "opens a portal to a new plane of understanding", but I do believe that Yahweh has given understanding at the microscopic level of a single cell within the human body, as well as the macroscopic scale of the seasons and years passing by over a lifetime. The microscopic/macroscopic is there in the written words of Yah.

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