I have been studying paleo Hebrew for a while and have been just fascinated with the idea that each letter has symbolism and meaning outside of being just a letter sound. This necklace is carved with the unspeakable name of God - the Tetragrammaton. The Hebrew letters are yod - hey - vov - hey. This is usually translated Yahweh or Jehovah in our Bibles. The yod looks like a stick figure arm bent at the elbow and the literal meaning is hand and symbolically it can mean works. The hey literally is a window, and it means to reveal. Vav -literally is a nail or a tent peg and it can mean to link together.

So the literal meaning of the unspeakable name of god is “The hand revealed, the nail revealed.’ God is so awesome! He just puts his fingerprints on everything and if you are seeking Him, he will just find ways to show you that he is in control and that His plan for salvation was from the very beginning of time.

His very name speaks of the salvation offered by the cross.

In a small group a few weeks back, we were discussing what heaven might be like and I thought everyone would have a job that would be suited perfectly for them. What would my job be… Making jewelry -- amazingly beautiful and meaningful jewelry without regard for cost of materials - now that would be heaven!

I must have been still mulling that over when I went to bed because I woke up in the wee morning hours and got up to write down the idea for this bracelet before going back to sleep.

At least a year ago I got interested in the Hebrew language and how interesting it was that each of the letters didn’t just have a sound, but also had meanings and ideas behind them. After reading a book that went through letter by letter, an internet search turned up a blog post from BeautyoftheBible.com about the first words of the Bible - “In the beginning” and I was just floored by another of those “God” moments.

“In the beginning” in Hebrew is “barasheet” or biet, resh, aleph, shin, yod, tav.

Biet in the paleo Hebrew means house and looked like a tent.

Resh means head and looked like the side profile of a head.

Together those spell “bar” which means son. (The head of the house)

Aleph means strength, or first and looked like an ox. Aleph is letter used to symbolize God.

Shin looked like jagged teeth and means to consume or destroy

Yod looked like an arm and hand and means works, or hand

Tav looked like a cross and means mark or covenant.

So within the first word of God’s word you have the promise of the gospel - that the son of God would be destroyed with his hands on the cross. Or, the son of God would be destroyed by his work of the covenant. The promise of our redemption was right there at the beginning. Isn’t God’s word amazing!

I looked for the perfect lampwork beads to make this creation story bracelet and think they look like the galaxy with there purple and green swirls. They also have silver traces that look like stars. Each of the Hebrew letters is a tag with the Hebrew name and the meaning stamped below.