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Genesis 1:1

בְּ רֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֶלֹהִים אֵת הַ שָּׁמַיִם וְ אֵת הָ אָרֶץ
In the head3 elohim4 has cut out5 אֶת-the6 dual-Heavenly-Ones7 and אֶת-the Earth.8


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Dual-Heavenly One(s)

Strong’s #8064, shamayym. This is a dual word, and only appears in the dual. Heavenly ones, but more specifically, dual heavenly ones as enayyim is the dual word for eyes, a pair of eyes, because we only have two, or kenaphayyim for a pair of wings etc., but more objectively because there is a symmetry or inverse reflection, or type-antitype. The one side is the inverse of the other. Sometimes the word is rendered “heavens” as though it meant something like the English plural “skies”. However, Isaiah 40:22 gives this liberal approach away as incorrect and misleading since the writer uses the masculine plural “he stretches them out” (like a pair of hands) in referring to the “Heavenly-ones”.