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What God looks like in the original Hebrew

ENTR0ZY·26 Jul 2022·1 min read

You wanna know something really interesting about reading the Bible in it's native language in Hebrew? You get slight depictions of what they call Yaweh. It doesn't look anything a white old man with a long beard. No, you get the appearance of what seems like a dragon.

First they say YHWH has very long nostrils, smoke pouring from them. In the Hebrew version of the Bible, the Torah. There are sentences that pop up repeatedly when given descriptions of YHWH, with the word "Apayin" Is usually translated into a synonym for a face of anger.

But it's not, whenever that word "Apayin" is used it's usually mentioned in length. Which doesn't make sense cos are you literally saying angry long face? Apayin supposedly translates to "nostrils". It's a key feature repeatedly mentioned.

This is the same depiction of the entity leviathan from the book of Jobs btw!

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