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What Does Hebrew Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
Genesis 40:15 · World English Bible

What does Hebrew mean in the Bible?

Hebrew: the innocent one recast as intruder, the projection screen for the mind's own guilt

Christian Psychology lens · Genesis 39:14

Where Hebrew appears in the Bible

Exodus 2:11

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

1 Samuel 4:6

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.

2 Corinthians 11:22

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Hebrew through 2 lenses

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Christian Psychology · Genesis 40:15

Christian Psychology

A mind that protests its innocence and rehearses the wrong done to it is still holding the grievance close, still living the story of a self carried off and unjustly buried. The pain is real to fear, yet the plea keeps the mind bound to the very injustice it names, for as long as it defends its case it remains the prisoner of it. Forgiveness would look on the whole abduction as a figure in a dream and let it be nothing.

So the deeper freedom is not to be proven innocent but to stop needing the wrong to be true at all.

  • Land of the Hebrews: the mind's remembered home of peace, felt as lost when fear tells the story
  • Dungeon: the imprisonment fear builds around a grievance the mind will not release
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Esoteric · Exodus 2:11

Esoteric

The grown Moses going out to his brethren is the awakened mind turning to look on what shares its own origin, the parts of a person born of the same seed within. The burdens he sees are the weight the lower mind lays on the higher, and the Egyptian smiting a Hebrew is exactly that: the carnal Egyptian nature, the lower mind, striking the spiritual one. To spy this is to become aware of the violence a person's own lower thinking does to the higher within. The kinship is the point, for the one struck is a brother, of the same inner house.

What a person watches here is the lower mind beating down the higher inside the one body, and the awakened self at last seeing that this attacker and this victim are both its own.

  • Moses: the awakened mind grown to full awareness
  • Egyptian: the carnal lower mind that strikes
  • Hebrew: the spiritual nature within, struck by the lower mind
  • Brethren: the inner parts born of the same christ seed, of one house

What Hebrew means in each story

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  • Psychoanalysis'A Hebrew to mock us': She calls him 'the Hebrew'. The collective projects its shadow onto the foreigner.Genesis 39:13-23

Commentaries on Hebrew

Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Hebrew

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