The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible"toward" a place. When these are combined the idea of "looking toward" something is
represented. The original meaning of PI is the North Star, a bright light in the night
sky that is "looked toward" to guide one on the journey.
If we are going to read the Bible correctly it must be through the perspective of the
Ancient Hebrews who wrote it, not from a Modern Aramaic or Greek perspective. The
word PPI in its original concrete meaning is a bright light that guides the journey and
we "praise" Yah by looking at him to guide us on our journey through life.
PERSPECTIVE OF THE LEXICON.....................................................................................
The first and foremost concept that a reader of the Biblical text must learn is that the
ancient Hebrews were products of an eastern culture while you as the reader are the
product of a western culture. These two cultures are as different as oil and vinegar, they
do not mix very well. What may seem rational in our western minds would be
considered irrational to an easterner of an ancient Near East culture. The same is true in
the reverse, what may be rational to an ancient Easterner would be completely irrational
in our western mind.
The authors of the Biblical text are writing from within their culture to those of the
same culture. In order to fully understand the text one needs to understand the culture
and thought processes of the Hebrew people.
All existing Hebrew Lexicons of the Bible convert the vocabulary of the ancient
Hebrews into a vocabulary compatible to our modern western language. The greatest
problem with this is that it promotes western thought when reading the Biblical text. In
this Lexicon the mind of the reader is transformed into an eastern one in order to
understand the text through the eyes of the ancient Hebrews who penned the words of
the Bible.
One of the greatest differences between this lexicon and others is the use of the ancient
pictographic script which Hebrew was originally written in. Because the Ancient
Hebrew language is based on these pictographs, they are used rather than the Modern
Hebrew script.