MOSHIAK or MASHIYACH ? --- The 2nd IDENTITY of GOD in The ELOHIM

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 MOSHIAK or MASHIYACH ?

The 2^nd Identity of GOD in The ELOHIM has two names, and each one is variously spelled. 

They may sound alike to some students of Hebrew and they may look alike to the casual reader . . . but they are different.

The two words come from

TWO DIFFERENT ROOTS.

Sounding and looking similar, they actually stem from two different Hebrew root consonants.  Furthermore,  they mean two different things.

Yet, these two names --- titles, as some would call them --- both refer to the 2^nd Identity of GOD in The ELOHIM. 

The first one, MOSHIAK , the Hiphil form HOSHIYA [ plus M for the participle ] which is from  Yod-Shin-Ayin = to deliver, to save, to set free.

 

 is found in two verses in the Masoretic text.  { Isaiah 43:3 and Jeremiah 30:10 }  It has the “aK” ending ,   , which means “your” --- singular, masculine. 

ISAIAH 43:3 

For I AM The LORD thy GOD, The HOLY ONE of Israel, thy SAVIOUR.

 I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

 

 

TransLITERated into  English:

For I am Y’HOVAH ELOHEYAK,

the HOLY of Israel, the MOSHIYeAK

However, much more frequent in the Masoretic text is the basic word, MOSHIYA ,

which means SAVIOR, DELIVERER, as in

ISAIAH 43:11 

I, even I Am the LORD;

and beside ME,

there is no SAVIOUR.

                   

 

From MOSHIYA we have  MOSHIAK which means “your  SAVIOR ” and is used in reference to the nation of Israel. 

An interesting observation is that many English writers transliterate this word with a “CH” on the end of it [ MOSHIACH ].

These writers indicate NOT a hard “ch” but instead, try to transliterate it as “MOSHIAchhh” to reflect a breathy, soft “K”, following  cantillation markings.

Without the  “aK” ( meaning, “your” ) at the end of the word MOSHIYA , it simply means SAVIOUR ,  a Hiphil participle form of YOD-SHIN-AYIN. 

Observe that the “M” at the beginning of the word MOSHIYA is a participle preformative “indicator.” { Kittel et al, Biblical Hebrew: A Text and Workbook, Yale University Press, 1989,  page 373.} and numerous other Hebrew grammars.

 

According to Ernest Klein --- “SAVIOR: substantive use of the participle of HOSHIYA, the Hiphil of Yod-SHin-AYIN,” { Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, University of Haifa, 1987, page 328.}

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NOW THEN . . .  The Second Name or Title of The 2^nd Identity of GOD in The ELOHIM is MASHIACH. 

 In Aramaic, M’SHIKHA.  MASHIACH or MASHIYACH is found in two verses in the Hebrew: Daniel 9:25 and 26.

In Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

In Daniel 9:26 

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

Now, this word MASHIACH is NOT A PARTICIPLE form like M-OSHI-AK.

The MEM at the beginning of MASHIACH is a ROOT letter. 

The ROOT of MASHIACH is Mem-SHin-CHet, that is, MawSHaCH  :

מָשַׁח

This ROOT    מָשַׁח     means

TO ANOINT.

MASHIACH  is the adjective form of the verb, and it means

The ANOINTED ONE.

pg. 519, Benjamin Davidson’s The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon.

Of utmost interest is the connection associated with MawSHaCH, to anoint.  

 This verb in the cognate languages ALSO meant to smear with oil or grease and / or to CRUSH or SMASH { olives } in order to make the Anointing Oil.

Hebrew priests and kings and altars were anointed with the special oil of Anointing, Exodus 30.  Even more, the cakes of fine flour, unleavened wafers were anointed with oil. 

The “Bread of HIS Face / Presence” likely were also anointed with oil, as that was The SHEWBREAD kept in order upon the Altar . Literally: “ The BREAD of (HIS) FACES”   

Now note this well:  all flour and olives were CRUSHED and GROUND , in order to make an offering in Righteousness unto The LORD.  

And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Leviticus 2:4

Hence, we find the Hebrew WORD PICTURE for anoint  from the ancient Hebrew letters to indicated this:

• Mem =    the symbol for water = water flowing or moving down stream

• SHin =  strong teeth = to destroy, devour, consume, something sharp

• CHet =       a fence or hedge to separate, cut off from, or to protect.

Dr. Frank T. Seekins explains the Hebrew pictograph for Anoint like this: 

Ma-shach  water of humility

Olives are CRUSHED to make oil.

Mem – water

Shach – strong word for humble

Dr. Frank T. Seekins, Hebrew Word Pictures, 2012, pg. 143

He explains the pictograph for Shin-Chet ( humble) as a person flat on his face before a destroyed ( SHIN )  wall ( CHET).  “When the wall of a city is knocked down, when all defenses are gone, there is humility.” 

ANOINT       then, is seen derived from  the “flowing water of humility.”  [ Pardon the shewa; it should not be there.]

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Thus, the 2^nd Identity of GOD in The ELOHIM is portrayed by TWO Names: 

M-0SHI-AK, 

from HOSHIYA ,

 meaning Your SAVIOUR

and

MASHIACH,  meaning ANOINTED ONE.

The 2^nd Identity of GOD in The ELOHIM is:

“Your SAVIOUR, the ANOINTED ONE”.

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Isaiah_43:11  

I, even I, am the LORD YHWH;

and beside ME

there is no SAVIOUR.

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