Proverbs 23:14
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

nakah shebet natsal nephes sh@’owl

reads from the pictures of the letters: You shall reveal the activity of life allowed by surrounding what destroys the household, taking authority over the activities of desire to consume the acitivity of life with communication, not allowing desire to set the path (which leads to death).

nakah
noon activity, life
Kaf to cover, to open, allow
Hey ‘the’, to reveal

So nakah is to reveal the activity to be allowed. (oh, you always take the last letter as the first meaning)

WOAH!

So combining this with the word pictures of shebet and muwcar we have the parent using the authorty that destroys the chaos that surrounds the house to destroy it by turning the child’s head away from the path of chaos and revealing the activity to be allowed.

THAT makes sense!

So this will work.

Correction is muwcar (pronounced moo-sawr) and it’s made of

mem liquid, massive, chaos
I think that the next letter is Dalet which would be pathway or to enter.
Samech support, twist slowly, turn
Reysh a person, the head, the highest

The idea being presented seems to be that of turning someone’s head to the pathway out of chaos. This totally fits with what I have read about it meaning “come let us reason together”.

So the rod of correction . . . this is interesting.

I’m working on Shebet and this is what I get:

sheen to consume, to destroy
bet household, in, into, family
tet to surround

this makes it very obvious where the idea of it being destructive comes from, but that is too simplistic considering what I know of how it was used outside of parenting. And another interesting thing, the shape of the shebet is that of the Lamed which means control, authority, the tongue. I can’t believe that the shape is insignificant.

It could be a staff for the purpose of destroying what surrounds the household, or surrounding what destroys the household! That would make a lot of sense.

So the point of using the rod of correction to save a child from death would mean using your authority to surround what destroys the household (which is chaos)and turning the child’s head to the path out of chaos. And the Hebraic way of doing this is to use the tongue, or reason together, or discipleship.

I’m so excited to get into this book! It’s amazing with just what I’ve looked at. Just a few examples . . .

peace is the Hebrew word shalom
Sheen teeth, destroy
Lamed staff, authority
Vav hook, nail, establish
Mem water, chaos

“Destroy the authority that establishes chaos; deal with the root issues.”

WOW! I mean wow! That is so amazing–it gets right to the heart of things!

Torah
Tav sign, cross
Vav hook, nail
Reysh head, man
Hey what comes from

“What comes from the man nailed to the cross.”

OH MY GOSH! I’m going to be doing some serious studying!

I have been getting spammed by relentless and ridiculous spammers and I’m tired of taking my time to delete them I can’t believe that people don’t have better stuff to do with their time because the spam isn’t even worth taking the time to bother me with them. But they want to waste their time and I don’t want to waste my time so . . . I’m excited that we’re about to celebrate our 10th anniversary! We had such a rough first year that I am really thrilled to be hitting this landmark. Not that I didn’t think we’d make it–I knew neither of us was going anywhere but there was a time when I didn’t know how happy we’d be while making it. The last few years have been rough, but we’ve been through them together, and have gotten stronger through it all, and I love my husband so very very much. He is an amazing man.

I’m really trying to come up with something special to do for our anniversary. I just don’t want this day to pass without a wonderful bit of attention paid to it