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The vav is the "sword" of the word. It is a prefix meaning 'and'. Like 'and' it divides two things and connects them. <ref>{{bgw| Heb 4:12 }} For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</ref> As a visual allegory, it looks like a sword. It indicates that there are two sides to an issue. | The vav is the "sword" of the word. It is a prefix meaning 'and'. Like 'and' it divides two things and connects them. <ref>{{bgw| Heb 4:12 }} For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</ref> As a visual allegory, it looks like a sword. It indicates that there are two sides to an issue. | ||
To understand ideas, we pull them apart and put them back together. This clarifies and distinguishes the meaning. | To understand ideas, we pull them apart and put them back together. This clarifies and distinguishes the meaning. It represents the word spoken into the void to separate God from his creation and pull them back together. <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:3 }} And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.</ref> | ||
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