Wisdom personified as a woman in Proverbs?

When reading Proverbs 1:20-33 & 8:1 to 9:12 passages we see wisdom is personified as a 'she' and is a poetic narration of Yahuah's internal inherent attribute externalized relating to Himself as a woman who is filled in His fulness. Let me quote a few passages from Proverbs 8.

Pro 8:22 “יהוה (Yahuah) possessed me, The beginning of His way, As the first of His works of old.

Pro 8:23 “I was set up ages ago, at the first, Before the earth ever was.
Pro 8:24 “When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs heavy with water.

Pro 8:25 “Before mountains were sunk, Before the hills, I was brought forth,

Pro 8:26 “Before He had made the earth and the fields, Or the first dust of the world.

Pro 8:27  “When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, 

Pro 8:28  “When He set the clouds above, When He made the fountains of the deep strong, 

Pro 8:29  “When He gave to the sea its law, So that the waters would not transgress His mouth, When He inscribed the foundations of the earth,

Pro 8:30  “Then I was beside Him, a master workman, And I was His delight, day by day Rejoicing before Him all the time

What is the mystery of the Wisdom who is personified as a Woman/She?

Pro 1:20 Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the broad places.

There are 2 words used interchangeably in scripture for Wisdom.

1. chakmoth/chokmoth H2454 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤅𐤕

H2454 has the root word chak H2441 חכ 𐤇𐤊 which means 'palate/roof of the mouth'. Hence, Chak/Palate is the roof of the mouth over which the tongue rolls and words are uttered and formed. The other root word is 'muth' מות 𐤌𐤅𐤕 H4191 which means 'death'

2.chakmah H2451 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤄

H2451 Chakmah חכמה/Wisdom has the root word chak H2441 חכ 𐤇𐤊 which means 'palate/roof of the mouth'. Hence, Chak/Palate is the roof of the mouth over which the tongue rolls and words are uttered and formed.

Another root word in Chakamah/Wisdom is 'kam כמ 𐤊𐤌' which means desire.

The word chakmoth/chokmoth H2454 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤅𐤕 is used only 5 times in the OT and lets examine the usage of this word in a spiritual understanding 

Psa 49:3  My mouth/peh 𐤐𐤄 H6310 speaks wisdom/chokmoth H2454 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤅𐤕, And the meditation of my heart brings understanding/tabunah 𐤕𐤁𐤅𐤍𐤄 H8394. 
Psa 49:4  I incline my ear to a parable; I expound my dark saying/chaydah 𐤇𐤉𐤃𐤄 H2420 on the lyre. 

The Psalmist speaks of what was revealed to him. The whole Psalm 49 is about man who builds houses and calls them by their own name, thinks their houses will endure for all generations, accumulates wealth but death feeds on them. When looking at the verses closely he says MY MOUTH speaks and we saw chokmoth has the root words chak which means 'roof of the mouth/palate' and muth means 'death'

chaydah 𐤇𐤉𐤃𐤄 H2420 is a proverb/riddle/puzzle. The roots words are chay 𐤇𐤉 which means life & yadah 𐤉𐤃𐤄 H3034 which means praising/confessing/thank/throwing hands in the air

It's the prophecy unfolding from an utterance, the tongue in his palate gave an utterance of death where in the next verse he says it's a dark saying/riddle (which is a beholder seeing this and throwing his hands in the air as the puzzle unfolds) and his heart brought forth the understanding. The word for understanding here is 'tabunah 𐤕𐤁𐤅𐤍𐤄 H8394' which has the root words 'taban 𐤕𐤁𐤍' & 'banah 𐤁𐤍𐤄' where taban means 'straw' and 'banah' means 'build'. It's like a pattern revealed. Just like Yahuah told Mosheh that he ensures that everything is made as per the pattern/tabniyth revealed to him.

Exo 25:40  “So see, and do according to the pattern/H8403 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤉𐤕 tabniyth which was shown to you on the mountain. 

The straw is used to make bricks, the bricks are used in building the structure as per the pattern. Hence, when we relate 'chokmoth' to Yahuah we see Yahuah divinely uttering in a bodily form by rolling His tongue over His palate in speaking of His death which is a dark saying/hidden and relates creation back to Him in His death as Yahusha. The Pslamist was prophesying that Yahuah's creation thinks they live as though they would live forever but everything comes to an end in death and this is the pattern which is built.

Pro 1:20  Wisdom/chokmoth 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤅𐤕 cries (a rejoicing cry)/ranan 𐤓𐤍𐤍 H7442 outside; She gives her voice/qol 𐤒𐤅𐤋 H6963 in the broad places/rachab 𐤓𐤇𐤁 H7339. 

Pro 8:1  Does not wisdom/chokmah 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤄 call/qara 𐤒𐤓𐤀, And understanding/tabunah 𐤕𐤁𐤅𐤍𐤄 H8394 give her voice/qol 𐤒𐤅𐤋 H6963 ? 

Placing the 2 verses together, the riddle unfolds when we understand that wisdom is personified as one with a rejoicing cry and another with a call. The rejoicing cry defines the desire/kam through prophecy of the deliverance of creation from the pangs of death through a divine utterance (chokmoth) in broad places. The word for broad places is 'rachab 𐤓𐤇𐤁 H7339' and is the same word for 'Rachab' the inn keeper (not a whore as incorrectly translated) who hid the spies who came to spy the land with Yericho before Yasharal could take it over. No whore can be in the lineage of Mashiyach. 

Mat 1:3 And Yehuḏah brought forth Perets and Zeraḥ by Tamar, and Perets brought forth Ḥetsron, and Ḥetsron brought forth Ram. 
Mat 1:4 And Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 

Mat 1:5 And Salmon brought forth Bo‛az by Racḥaḇ, and Bo‛az brought forth Oḇěḏ by Ruth, and Oḇěḏ brought forth Yishai.

Who was Rachab?

The Hebrew text identifies Rahab as a zônāh, a prostitute. whereas actually an innkeeper, since the "consonants that make up the word ‘prostitute' in Hebrew (znh (זנה 𐤆𐤍𐤄) are identical to the consonants of the Hebrew word for a female person who gives food and provisions (zunah 𐤆𐤅𐤍𐤄)." Moreover, the Yahudite historian Josephus wrote that Rahab kept an inn (katagōgion in Greek).

H2109 & H2110 -the root word means to feed. It turns out that Rahab was a Hotel Owner. The one who fed people with food at her inn.

Jos 2:1 And Yehoshua son of Nun secretly sent out two men from Shittim to spy, saying, “Go, see the land, and Yeriḥo.” And they went, and came to the house of a woman, a whore/zunah 𐤆𐤅𐤍𐤄 H2181 (zayin uau nun hey), and her name was Raḥaḇ, and they lodged/shakab 𐤔𐤊𐤁 H7901 there. 

Jos 2:2 But it was reported to the sovereign of Yeriḥo, saying, “See, men from the children of Yisra’ĕl have come here tonight to search out the land.” 

The word here is zunah (female inn keeper) and not zanah (a harlot), the hey at the end makes the word feminine. The translators got it wrong. Moreover, it's clear with the word shakab which means to lodge/take rest/lie down

She hid the spies on her roof top with the stalks of flax , what were stalks of flax doing on her roof top if not to feed those in her hotel/inn? 

Jos 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof. 

When she was saved on the day of Yericho's fall, she was saved along with her father, mother and her brothers and all that she had, which harlot does harlotry with her father, mother and brothers being in the house.

Jos 6:23 And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Raḥaḇ, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. So, they brought out all her relatives and set them outside the camp of Yisra’ĕl. 

Jos 6:24 And they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the House of יהוה. 

Jos 6:25 However, Yehoshua kept alive Racḥaḇ the INN KEEPER/zunah 𐤆𐤅𐤍𐤄, and her father’s household, and all that she had. And she dwelt in the midst of Yisra’ĕl to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yeriḥo. 

Jas 2:25 In the same way, was not Racḥaḇ the inn keeper also declared right by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 

Heb 11:31 By belief, Racḥaḇ the inn keeper did not perish with those who did not believe, having received the spies with peace. 

H7342.  bxr  rachab,  raw-khawb' 

 

from 7337; make room/broad place, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively:--broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide. 

Rachab is a riddle of a broad place who hid the Yasharalite spies when they came to spy out the Promised land. She is a picture of a room in the midst of dispersion where the elect are refreshed & hidden in Mashiyach.

In the death of Mashiyach Yahusha we will be brought to the promised land. His intense desire and love for us drew Him to come to pay the price for us. Proverbs 1:20 is declaration whilst Proverbs 8:1 is a question asked. The word chokmah is 'feminine' and creation is asked doesn't the utterance in a desire call you and is in a pattern (we saw the word tabunah) give her voice?

One is a declaration, and one is a call, both personified by 'female' who is within the 'male' and brought forth outside of him to reveal his thoughts and desire for his woman. This is depicted by Yahuah putting Adam to deep sleep/tardamah and out of his side he split open his side and from the mud he formed the woman and filled up the flesh for Adam and the woman for the other side. We saw this in my study in a note form which can be read here: https://dsouzashodan72.blogspot.com/2022/12/rib-or-side-of-adam.html

The deep sleep/tardamah has the root words 'tar 𐤕𐤓' which means 'border' and 'damah 𐤃𐤌𐤄' which means 'silence as in death' It's like drawing in the mud the portion which is cut out and creating out of that clay while the other half remained silenced in a deep sleep equivalent to death. 

When the Yahudim were accusing the woman caught in adultery, Yahusha was writing something on the ground. While scripture is silent as to what He wrote, the Yahudim were immediately guilty when He told them to cast the stone to her who has not sinned.

Joh 8:4  they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 
Joh 8:5  “And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What then do You say?” 
Joh 8:6 And this they said, trying Him, so that they might accuse Him. But יהושע, bending down, wrote on the ground with the finger, as though He did not hear. 
Joh 8:7 But as they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” 

We should note that because Alahym had created man “out of the dust” and since He had come to “write the law on people’s hearts” it is likely that when he wrote on the ground that day in the presence of the scribes and Pharisees, He had in a sense, written the supreme call to mercy.

Coming back to the word 'tardamah' when Yahuah made a covenant with Abraham and asked him to cut the pieces of the animals into two and a flaming torch passed through them when Abraham was put into a deep sleep/tardamah. This was to tell Abraham that his seed would see affliction for 400 years in Egypt and this slavery was as painful as death, but He would deliver them. The third usage is when Yahusha on the stake was put to deep sleep and when His side was pierced water and blood gushed forth, 'the water and blood' indicating that He who came by water and blood would wash us His bride from all our sins into re-marrying us whom He had divorced due to our whoredom. Twice in the book of Ayob it says deep sleep falls on men at night. There was darkness over the whole land when Yahusha was put to deep sleep. 

Mat 27:45  And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour. 

Job 4:13  Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep/tardamah falls on men, 

Job 33:15  in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep/tardamah falls upon men, while slumbering on a bed, 

We are related to his body as His flesh and His bones

Eph 5:30  Because we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 

The woman within the man Yahusha is personified. I have shared this before but here it is again. When Yahuah created everything, He related everything back to Himself , he was in a bodily form (as seen as Messenger of Yahuah by many in the OT). Being in the bodily form and relating everything back to Him, His divine utterance involved the rolling of his tongue in his palate creating everything from what proceeded from his mouth, the five elements...throat, palate, tongue, teeth and lips. The letters, words and sentences formed in that rolling of the tongue is 'Chokmah' and what was internal externalized as a female because the entire creation is feminine and relates to him because he is the male/ish/husband. This is the imagery...the 22 Hebrew letters forming the words, the words the sentences and the sentences, the language of creation.

1Co 1:21  For since, in the wisdom/chokmoth of Elohim, the world through wisdom/chokmah did not know Elohim, it pleased Elohim through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.  1Co 1:22  And since Yehuḏim ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,  1Co 1:23  yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehuḏim a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness,  1Co 1:24  but to those who are called – both Yehuḏim and Greeks – Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom/chokmoth of Elohim. 

The Hebrew translation uses the same word 'chokmoth' which shows that Mashiyach is visible representation of Yahuah in bodily form and is stated as the wisdom/chokmoth of Aluahym whereas the externalized world wisdom is 'chokmah' the feminine.

This is a deep mystery as we now know in part and prophesy in part but when perfection will come, the part will be done away with. The woman will be perfected in His wisdom. The 'muth/death' was in His utterance, concealed in a riddle as a pattern/tabunah. Only through the wisdom of Yahuah one is able to relate and understand the unfolding of prophecy.

1Co 13:9  For we know in part and we prophesy in part.  1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive. 

The woman was never perfect but portrayed in Proverbs 8 as being perfect and within Yahuah as a 'one brought up’ as the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Yahuah when he tells Ayob/Job on whether he was there when he made the worlds, the answer is No. But then Yahuah says in verse 7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of Aluahym shouted for joy, was he there? Again, the answer is No. Because physically nothing was there apart from Yahuah being alone. But then the metaphorical language of the morning stars and sons of Aluahym being there singing together when he laid the foundation of the world shows 'We were there', where? Within Him. Some teach that Yahuah was creating, and the morning stars were the angels who were rejoicing. Angels were not created when Yahuah laid the foundation, they were part of the creation, not part of the Creator. He gives us the esteem of being part of Himself as 'flesh of His flesh and bones of His bones'.

Job 38:1 Then יהוה answered Iyoḇ out of the whirlwind, and said, 

Job 38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 

Job 38:3 Now gird up your loins like a man, and I ask you, and you answer Me. 

Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. 

Job 38:5 Who set its measurements, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it? 

Job 38:6 Upon what were its foundations sunk. Or who laid its cornerstone, 

Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy? 

When Yahuah told Abraham "I have made you father of many nations", He spoke in the past tense. But was Yitshaq born yet? Abraham and Sarah were beyond age and bodily they couldn't have a son. Moreover, were children of Yasharal born yet? 

Rev2:28 “and I shall give him the morning star.”

Rev22:16 I, `Yahusha, have sent My messenger to testify to you these things before the assemblies. I am the root and Dawid and his descendant, the bright morning star. 

Yet He spoke as though they were there by telling Abraham "I have made you father of many nations"

Gen 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 

Heb 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest...” Psa_95:11 And yet His works have come into being from the foundation of the world. 

Rom 4:17 as it has been written, “I have made you a father of many nations” Gen_17:5 – in the presence of Him whom he believed, even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing, 

Shaul elaborates by saying what Yahuah meant when He spoke in the past tense "...even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing''

The name Yahuah:

Why is the tetragrammation interpretation into a pronounced name so much in dispute among the Messianic circles?

Yod Hay Waw/Uau Hay is translated as Yahuah but because the 'ah' on the end makes the name feminine, they changed it to 'eh' trying to say its masculine. Hence, they derived as 'Yahuweh, Yahweh'. This is because they do not understand the mystery of the woman within the man who was taken out. The woman taken out has an inclination towards her ish/husband and the husband has also the element that attaches him or attracts him towards his woman.

1Co 11:8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 

1Co 11:9 For man also was not created for the woman, but woman for the man. 

1Co 11:11 However, man is not independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Master. 

1Co 11:12 For as the woman was from the man, even so the man also is through the woman. But all are from Elohim. 

Some state Shaul is contradicting himself in the 1 Corin 11 passages. First, he says man is not from woman but woman from man, then in verse 12 he says as the woman was from the man, even so the man also is through the woman.

There is no contradiction here. In my previous note in the link below I showed that the promise was that the woman would be delivered in childbearing (1Tim 2:15). She was to keep her former estate with her inclination towards her husband/ish and the husband would change His position from Father who was the husband to Son the same husband to be deliver her in childbearing.

'https://dsouzashodan72.blogspot.com/2023/07/who-and-why-has-woman-to-cover-her-head.html' 

So, in the spiritual sense, the woman was within the man Yahusha who was Yahuah in bodily form. He spoke her in existence as being one enjoined with him and separated, one brought up.

Proverbs 8:30 “Then I was enjoined with/atsel 𐤀𐤑𐤋 H681 Him, one brought up/amon 𐤀𐤌𐤅𐤍 H525 from H539, And I was His delight, day by day Rejoicing before His face all the time, 

The word atsel 𐤀𐤑𐤋 H681 has the root word 'tsal 𐤑𐤋' which means shadow. The word itself means 'side'. The 'aleph 𐤀' before the word 'tsal 𐤑𐤋' shows its the aleph's side.

Gen 2:22 And the side/tsala 𐤑𐤋𐤏 which יהוה Elohim had taken from the man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 

The same root 'tsal 𐤑𐤋' is in the word translated as 'side' in Gen 2:22. 

Proverbs 8:30 shows that the woman was beside Him as His shadow as one brought up (from within) and she was His rejoicing before His face (face is part of the head in His headship).

The word translated as ‘one brought up’ is amun which means ‘So be it’ usually used at the end of prayer as Aman/amen/amun. It’s an affirmation of something invisible or intangible yet.

once (in Isa_30:21; by interchange for H541) to go to the right hand

Isa 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand/aman 𐤀𐤌𐤍 H541 , and when ye turn to the left.

Coming back to 1Corin 11, the woman was brought forth from the man and he said "This is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones" and the man who brought forth the woman is also born from the woman which he states in 1Corin 11:12.  Was Yahusha not born from the woman into this word? I touch based on this in Rev 12 on the man child born from the woman in my note ' Who and why has the woman to cover her head & to keep silence in the assembly mean?'.

The mystery unfolds as we see the woman holds the elements of her husband within and as it says the whole creation groans in pain for redemption, this is the inclination she has towards Him as she is inherent to Him.  Similarly, her element is in Him which causes Him to be compassionate towards her to deliver her and bring her to Himself.

Gen 3:16....And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.” 

Also, no Father will send His Son to marry His bride. She was brought forth from Him and He will perfect her in Himself. She is personified as she is speaking being with Him right before anything was made relating to His death as seen in the root word 'muth' in 'chokmoth' where He confesses His love towards her in rolling His tongue in the palate of his mouth/chak & kam that He will buy her back in His death/muth to perfect her in Himself. There is no contradiction in scripture, it has to be seen in a spiritual perspective.

The woman in 'chokmah' confesses/chak her love back to Him in realization of His love in her desire/kam. And Shaul says in 1Corin 11:12 "...But all are from Aluahym" showing that the elements of 'male and female' were within Him, revealed in His name Yahuah where Yah means "I exist" and "huah" means "will be/become". 

The writing in Proverbs personifying wisdom as a woman is called encomium (a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly). Do we deserve any praise? I don’t think so, but He has arrayed us in His beauty.