Language That Relates Us ๐ Lev (ืื) - Heart
What if we can identify the source and truest meanings for all of our words? According to tradition, Hebrew is the tool of creation and root of all confounded language...
A few weeks ago, we looked at the situationally used, but ultimately, seemingly meaningless word "Hello" and some of its many variants (like Hallo, Salom, etc.,) from other languages. Both phonetically, and in their spellings, they all seemed to point to the Hebrew word "Shalom / ืฉืืื." Although it is used similarly when greeting or departing from someone, the meaning of shalom is "Peace," and is ideally the natural wish for someone from whom you depart. May we all join this intent and meaning to our thoughts as we greet others with this word.
https://steemit.com/language/@inphiknit/language-that-relates-us
In the comments of that post, @contextualize suggested a good idea, and allowed me to make a post about the following word.
The Hebrew word for heart is "Lev / ืื."
There is a small note to be aware of here before reading the list. The Hebrew letter ืึผ (Bet) makes a "B" sound when it has a dot (dagesh) inside of it. And ื (Vet) makes a "V" sound when it has no dagesh. But it is still the same letter, the 2nd in the Aleph-Bet. When saying the sounds B and V with your mouth, lips and tongue, you can feel the similarity in shape and movement of air. This is also why these letters can be confused when hearing them. Bet and Vet are also similar to "P" (ืคึผ) and "F" (ืค) in the shape of the mouth parts and movement of air. In both cases, the "more lippy," or more "bursting" sound has the dagesh, but they can all four be confused when heard.
So let's check for similarities between a few languages.
Heart / ืื
QaLB (Arabic, Uzbek)
LuB pLawV (Hmong)
LiBi (Ahmaric)
Many of our respective oral traditions tell us that the seat of Love in the body is in our Hearts. Therefore we should check that word as well.ย
Hey wait, B"H! The word "Love" itself sounds like ืื / Lev!
Love:
LieF ย (Afrikaans)
LieFde (Dutch)
LeaFde (Frisian)
LรฉiFt (Luxembourgish)
LieBe (German)
LjuBaV (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian)
LjuBoV (Macedonian)
LjuBezen (Slovenian)
LyuBlyu (Russian)
LรบBiลฅ (Slovac)
MiLoVat (Czech)
HLuV (Hmong)
EVรฎn (Kurdish)
There are more words from other languages that are similar, but Google translate only provides phonetic transliterations for some of them, and I can't read those which do not use Latin or Hebrew based characters.
Is there meaning and significance in the letters chosen to build the word ืื? Since they are the tools of Creation, we believe there is. But this post is sufficient for now...
Does the word for Heart, or the word for Love in your language sound like, or spell like ืื / Lev?! Please share it if it does!
(Heart giphy.)
Thanks For Your Attention and Support!
Melech ben Chaya ืืื ืื ืืื, @inphiknit
Quite an educative post, most times mistranslations go further than just the verbal misuse of words in communication if one where to look deeper and see that written translations are flawed then one would question the contents of let's say the "bible", most times many individuals read and accept whole a text without questioning its authenticity even though deep down their instincts and subconscious tells them "that doesn't seem right", a common happening especially with devout believers, I trust and believe one day a lot will be properly translated and a lot of light will be shed on some mysteries, don't get me wrong I'm not putting the bible to question I'm saying the contents in some sections may have been subject to mistranslations by various versions over time either intentionally or by ignorance. Thanks for such an enlightening post once again. I enjoyed this.
Thanks very much for your appreciation and comment. I generally agree too. And believe that Torah really can't be accurately translated, merely approached.
Setting aside subject matter, context, plot, the characters etc., the simplest proof for this is that since Hebrew letters are also numbers, all the "hidden" numeric data is immediately lost with any translation.
Things are coming full circle though. B'Ez"H very soon...
More thanks to you, have a blisful Sunday, looking forward to more posts from you.
Shalom! What a great topic! I love considering language and our common roots...and I just realized the significance of you username ๐
English is my native language, and you already discussed here how similar Love is to Lev, so I'll add something else that I think is beautiful: As I understand it, the Quechua language from the Andes is as old & sacred as Hebrew or Sanskrit.
Their phrase for thank you translates to "doves fly in my heart", and you're welcome is "half of you is half of me".
So...thank you/peace/half of you is half of me @inphiknit ๐
Oh I like both of those sentiments, and they are appropriate meanings for their uses as thank you and you're welcome. Very interesting.
I hope we can all find the roots of our words and respect their original meanings along with the new.
You like Phi? ^~
Shalom :)
Oh yeah!! Phi is so fundamentally pleasing!!
1.16180339...4-evah!!!!! โ
I like how every part of your statement is perfectly, literally, accurate!
Phi is;
Fundamental. (The universe shows it at every level.)
Pleasing. (Psych/beauty tests prove it pleasing to us, and probably to animals to, if they could test it.)
Forever! (The math states it.)
Nice one!
Really like this because we need some love in the world on the places were it is not always reachable
Yes! And it's often one of the things that does reach!
Thanks!
Another way of saying it from a linguistic perspective: The 'b' sound in the Hebrew letter: 'Bet' is voiced whereas the 'v' sound in the letter: 'Vet' is unvoiced.
Ah thanks for that! I never learned the technical terms for all the types of sounds properly.
I don't think the technicalities matter very much. I was just trying top contribute something of value to your excellent post.
Well, I found I was carefully choosing my words when trying to describe it. Maybe if I learned the correct terms it would be easier. So I thought you did contribute!
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Hi, thanks very much @lachitsarmah! That is very kind of you!
Pleasure to meet you :)
You too.
I am quite ignorant about this, but was wondering when someone says Yiddish is that the same then as Hebrew or no?
Happy to have the question! Yiddish and Hebrew are different languages, but use the same aleph-bet. Yiddish is a European/Germanic language, though it has many Hebrew words. (Torah is in ancient Hebrew.) Yiddish is sometimes also just called "Jewish."
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