As Heiser and a great many other Old Testament scholars make clear, biblical Hebrew is loaded with symbolism. The classical Hebrew language consisted of just about 800 root words, and everything else they had to say was derived from the various combinations of those words. And the language itself rested on the assumption that some terms and figures of speech had more than one meaning, based on the context. English is the opposite; instead of building with a few roots, it went out and stole words from other languages, building one of the largest vocabularies still in use today.
Symbolism of the Cross
Symbolism of the Cross
Symbolism of the Cross
As Heiser and a great many other Old Testament scholars make clear, biblical Hebrew is loaded with symbolism. The classical Hebrew language consisted of just about 800 root words, and everything else they had to say was derived from the various combinations of those words. And the language itself rested on the assumption that some terms and figures of speech had more than one meaning, based on the context. English is the opposite; instead of building with a few roots, it went out and stole words from other languages, building one of the largest vocabularies still in use today.