WHAT IS A GRAVEN IMAGE part3
(a.k.a PIXELS?)
by MBPSTB
Sabbath, 19th day, 8th month
7 November, 2015
Please note the word in Hebrew and the letters that comprise this word.
While each letter plays a part, it is the center letter, the Samekh that our attention should be focused on. It's evolution into the Greek sound and how that might play a role in what really might define a "graven image" today.
Here is the verse from which this definition is used:
Jer 10:14 EveryH3605 manH120 is brutishH1197 in his knowledge:H4480 H1847 everyH3605 founderH6884 is confoundedH3001 by the graven image:H4480 H6459 forH3588 his molten imageH5262 is falsehood,H8267 and there is noH3808 breathH7307 in them.
H6459 "graven image"
פּסל
pesel
peh'-sel
From H6458; an idol: - carved (graven) image.
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Pe |
The word (peh 1738) means mouth, but is often synonymous with speech. With a little good will one may recognize a face with a mouth in the shape of this letter. |
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Samekh |
The verb (samak 1514) means lean upon, support, uphold. It is the verb that is used in the phrase "laying on of hands." |
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The Greek letter Xi, comes from the Hebrew Samekh and phonetically sounds out as "ks".
Even in the Paleo-Hebrew pictographs, this letter resembles the sort of aerial antennas that used to be on rooftops of houses allowing transmission of video signals for TV.
Here below is the Coptic counterpart. Also note that the numerical value is the same as in the Hebrew: (in fact, all the Coptic counterparts of these three Hebrew letters are numerically equivalent)
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ⲝ |
60 |
Eksi |
Ξ, ξ |
ks |
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Lamed |
The verb (lamad 1116) means learn or teach. Derivative (talmid 1116c) means scholar (hence Talmud), and derivative means oxgoad. The letter lamed is said to look like such a device, and when Jesus says to Saul, "it is hard for you to kick against the goads" (Acts 26:14) He may hint at Paul's learning rather than coercion. |
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So then taking this information, we can phonetically sound out this Hebrew word for "graven image":
Pey - Samekh - Lamed
P - Xi - L
P - KS - L
PKSL
PK - SL
Modern rendering:
PIXEL
Many of us read the Scriptures and see the words "graven images" and we mostly think to ourselves that it means some form of literal idol. That is a statue, something carved out of wood or metal or stone. And we comfortably say to ourselves "well, that doesn't apply to me. I don't get in front of any sort of statue and worship it or pray to it". And when we do say that to ourselves we reinforce that thought as we recall other religions who still to this day have statues that they offer up prayers and offerings to. So we think that is what is being meant by this.
Should we really examine our lives and think outside the box and ask ourselves what might be an idol, we might find that it is anything that is placed first and foremost in our lives. Television has become so deeply ingrained into our lives. We turn it on as soon as we get home. We have TVs in just about every room in the house. We watch it even while we eat. And today, in this digital age, all forms of pictures are rendered from.....PIXELS. Smallest controllable elements of a picture represented on a television or computer screen.
Some interesting facts regarding the etymology of this word "pixel" from the internet:
The word "pixel" was first published in 1965 by Frederic C. Billingsley of JPL, to describe the picture elements of video images from space probes to the Moon and Mars.[5] However, Billingsley did not coin the term himself. Instead, he got the word "pixel" from Keith E. McFarland, at the Link Division of General Precision in Palo Alto, who did not know where the word originated. McFarland said simply it was "in use at the time" (circa 1963).[6]
The word is a combination of pix, for picture, and element. The word pix appeared in Variety magazine headlines in 1932, as an abbreviation for the word pictures, in reference to movies.[7] By 1938, "pix" was being used in reference to still pictures by photojournalists.[6]
The concept of a "picture element" dates to the earliest days of television, for example as "Bildpunkt" (the German word for pixel, literally 'picture point') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow. According to various etymologies, the earliest publication of the term picture element itself was in Wireless World magazine in 1927,[8] though it had been used earlier in various U.S. patents filed as early as 1911.[9]
Some authors explain pixel as picture cell, as early as 1972.[10] In graphics and in image and video processing, pel is often used instead of pixel.[11] For example, IBM used it in their Technical Reference for the original PC.
Pixilation, spelled with a second i, is an unrelated filmmaking technique that dates to the beginnings of cinema, in which live actors are posed frame by frame and photographed to create stop-motion animation. An archaic British word meaning "possession by spirits (pixies)," the term has been used to describe the animation process since the early 1950s; various animators, including Norman McLaren and Grant Munro, are credited with popularizing it.[12]
While the above data from the internet does not make the same Hebraic connections, it is still worthy to consider the possible modern day warning we have been given.
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