Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Wayne Ingalls <zechariah14 AT sbcglobal.net>]

Whatever one's theology, one must acknowledge this particular Scriptural use 
of the word echad.
   
  Shemot/Exodus 26:6  (JPS99) And make fifty gold clasps, and couple the 
cloths to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle becomes one 
whole (echad). 

  Shemot/Exodus 36:13 (JPS99) And they made fifty gold clasps and coupled the 
units to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one whole 
(echad).
   
  Wayne

K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:   James:

While I am loathe to get into a theological argument, the strict
linguistic meaning of "one" in Hebrew is an argument neither for nor
against the trinitarian understanding of God. I agree with you that
the argument that 'echad' refers to a compound one is not supportable,
but the concept that God is a compound one is not based on this word,
rather on many other verses in both Tanakh and New Testament.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 8/24/06, someone angel wrote:
> Hello Sir!
>
> Echad (one)
> It is customary for some Binitarians and most evangelical Trinitarians 
> (especially Messianics) to propose that the Hebrew word for one, the 
> numeral one (echad), is really "compound one." This is a clever device 
> which confuses logical thought. Echad occurs some 960 times in the Hebrew 
> Bible, and it is the numeral "one." It is a numeral adjective when it 
> modifies a noun. "One day," "one person," etc. Echad is the ordinary 
> cardinal number, "one." Eleven in Hebrew is ten and one. Abraham "was only 
> one," said Ezekiel 33:24 (NASU), "only one man" (NIV). .........
>
> Sincerely,
> James
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