Spoke 7 Judges, Joel, Colossians

Zakar: Remember ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. [Psalm 119.49] I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. [Ps 119.52] I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. [Ps 119.55] These three verse are from the great alphabetic Psalm 119. Each uses the fundamental Zayin KeyWord (Zakar, S# H2142). God used this root in nine of the 22 alphabetic verses. Zakar is also used in the Fourth Commandment - Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy - which forms a deep link between the Numbers Four and Seven.

The Sabbath is the Seventh Day while the command to rest is associated with the Number 4 which has been shown to be deeply integrated with the ideas of Rest, Sleep, Stillness, and Death (cf. Psalm 4). Thus we have a very strong tension between the busy buzzing letter Zayin and the stillness and silence of the Letter Dalet. God brought these words and ideas together in the Zayin verse of Lamentations 1:

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

The Numbers 4 and 7 are also profoundly integrated with the numerical values of the words God designed to express His Glory:

Here are the rest of the alphabetic verses that contain Zakar:

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. [Lam 3.19]

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. [Lam 3.20]

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. [Ps 25.6]

He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: [Ps 111.4a]

They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. [Ps 145.7]

Zakah: Pure

Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: [Lam 4.7]

The association of Nazarites with the Zayin KeyWord Zakah is very interesting in light of the links between Judges and Isaiah 7.

Zimrah: Song

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. [Ps 119.54]

This is an example of the "humming" nature of Zayin, which is used in a lot of buzzing words like Zebub (Fly), which Gesenius links to an unsused rood zabab meaning "to buzz." This also relates to the next word Zamam.

Zamam: Consider

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. [Pro 31.16]

Klein states that most scholars take Zamam to be from the root zamzum meaning to murmur. This is closely related to such words as the Arabic zamzama (murmur) and the modern Hebrew Zamzam which means Hum and also denotes a buzzer.

Zeh: This

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. [Ps 119.50]

This I had, because I kept thy precepts. [Ps 119.56]

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. [Lam 3.21]

Zayin and Dalet are intechanged in many Hebrew words, and in various language groups. For example, the Greek Zeta (corresponding to Zayin) sounds like a DZ as in (ktidzo, to create).

Zeyd: Proud

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law. [Ps 119.51]

This is S# H2086