Genesis 1:1
| 3 | The Origin > Head > Source - The Mother of Life/Death Strong’s #7225, reshit, [feminine] head. This is the feminine of rosh, #7218. The root of these words is unused but means to shake, tremble. Understood to mean “head” (because it shakes) and long interpreted here in the abstract as “beginning of time." Time? Everywhere that I can tell, this word “head” is used in the sense of “headwaters”, that is a source, or a mountain peak. A “source” could be construed as a “beginning” but the sense is not that of normal time, and I have seen nothing in scripture which would indicate that rosh/reshit are related to space-time. In fact, it should be known there is no word for “time” in the sense of clock time, atomic time, linear time, or space-time in the Hebrew. There is only appointed time, season, menstruation time, then, now, perpetuity, and time of tomorrow, time of the evening. See #6256. The writers chose the feminine version of head here. Why? Here lies perhaps the most enigmatic mystery of the Bible. There are a few root verbs that are symmetrical: hayah (to become), nun (to propagate), and harah (to conceive). These are some of the most significant in all of the Hebrew language. They reflect opposites. Taking the individual letters as a cue: היה hayah: [Look - the hand - Look] to become נונ nun: [seed - peg/nail - seed] to propogate הרה harah: [Look - head - Look] to conceive  With this understanding, "In the head" would refer to the very conception of life itself. Life conceived. Elohim conceived. Eve the "Mother of All the Living Ones". The Mother of all real life. Imagine how beautiful she must be, when she manifests in all her glory? |