What if we can identify the source and truest meanings for all of our words? According to tradition, Hebrew is the tool of creation and root of all confounded language...

A few weeks ago, we looked at the situationally used, but ultimately, seemingly meaningless word "Hello" and some of its many variants (like Hallo, Salom, etc.,) from other languages. Both phonetically, and in their spellings, they all seemed to point to the Hebrew word "Shalom / שלום." Although it is used similarly when greeting or departing from someone, the meaning of shalom is "Peace," and is ideally the natural wish for someone from whom you depart. May we all join this intent and meaning to our thoughts as we greet others with this word.

https://steemit.com/language/@inphiknit/language-that-relates-us

In the comments of that post, @contextualize suggested a good idea, and allowed me to make a post about the following word.

The Hebrew word for heart is "Lev / לב."

https://media.giphy.com/media/DZagytQ7EmIg/giphy.gif

There is a small note to be aware of here before reading the list. The Hebrew letter בּ (Bet) makes a "B" sound when it has a dot (dagesh) inside of it. And ב (Vet) makes a "V" sound when it has no dagesh. But it is still the same letter, the 2nd in the Aleph-Bet. When saying the sounds B and V with your mouth, lips and tongue, you can feel the similarity in shape and movement of air. This is also why these letters can be confused when hearing them. Bet and Vet are also similar to "P" (פּ) and "F" (פ) in the shape of the mouth parts and movement of air. In both cases, the "more lippy," or more "bursting" sound has the dagesh, but they can all four be confused when heard.

So let's check for similarities between a few languages.

Heart / לב

QaLB (Arabic, Uzbek)

LuB pLawV (Hmong)

LiBi (Ahmaric)

Many of our respective oral traditions tell us that the seat of Love in the body is in our Hearts. Therefore we should check that word as well.

Hey wait, B"H! The word "Love" itself sounds like לב / Lev!

Love:

LieF (Afrikaans)

LieFde (Dutch)

LeaFde (Frisian)

LéiFt (Luxembourgish)

LieBe (German)

LjuBaV (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian)

LjuBoV (Macedonian)

LjuBezen (Slovenian)

LyuBlyu (Russian)

LúBiť (Slovac)

MiLoVat (Czech)

HLuV (Hmong)

EVîn (Kurdish)

There are more words from other languages that are similar, but Google translate only provides phonetic transliterations for some of them, and I can't read those which do not use Latin or Hebrew based characters.

Is there meaning and significance in the letters chosen to build the word לב? Since they are the tools of Creation, we believe there is. But this post is sufficient for now...

Does the word for Heart, or the word for Love in your language sound like, or spell like לב / Lev?! Please share it if it does!

(Heart giphy.)

Thanks For Your Attention and Support!

Melech ben Chaya מלך בן חיה, @inphiknit

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