Good and Bad

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Good and Bad    By Jeff A. Benner

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/12_goodbad.html

The Eastern mind sees God as a perfect balance of all things including good (tov in Hebrew) and evil (ra in Hebrew).

It should be noted that the English word "evil" has no Ancient Hebrew equivelant, while most English translations will use the word "evil" it is usually the Hebrew word "ra" which simply means "bad". In the Ancient Hebrew mind there is no such thing as an "evil" person or thing. To understand the words "good" and "bad" from a more Hebraic understanding these words should be understood as "functional" and "dysfunctional". God is both functional (such as seen in the Creation story of Genesis one) as well as dysfunctional (such as the destruction of the flood).

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The Ayin and Ghah

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/bookstore/e-books/ahlb.pdf

Pg. 16

While the Modern Hebrew alphabet consists of twenty-two letters, the evidence
suggests that there were additional letters in the original Semitic and Hebrew alphabet.
One of the ancient Semitic languages of Canaan was Ugarit. This ancient language is
almost identical to the Hebrew language of the Bible but, instead of consisting of
twenty-two letters it has twenty-eight letters. One of the major differences between
Ugarit and Hebrew is the additional letter "ghah". Evidence, such as will be presented
here, suggest that the letter "ghah" exists within the Hebrew text of the Bible


One Word - Two Meanings
The strongest evidence of the missing ghah can be found in two different meanings of
one Hebrew word. The Hebrew word ra? ( in modern Hebrew) can mean ?friend? or
?bad?.

Impact on Ancient Hebrew Studies
In the study of the ancient Hebrew language and alphabet we begin studying the
language at its simplest roots, the letters. Each letter is a picture that represents a
meaning. When the letters are combined to form roots, each letter supplies meaning to
the root. By then studying the various words, which are derived out of any given root,
we can begin to reconstruct the original root language of Hebrew. In order to be as
accurate as possible, we need to be sure that we are using the correct words, roots and
letters.
When we compare the meanings of the parent roots that were originally spelled with the
letter ghah we notice the similarity in meaning with each of these words. The majority
of these words are related to darkness (dark, storm, clouds, rain, blind) and wickedness
(wicked, goat, city, bad, crafty).