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4Sep/101

H’sus = Ha-Soos (the Horse) = Jesus???

A friend just asked me about the article The Revelation of Jesus - the Shocking Truth Exposed! where an attempt is made to demonize (or rather, horse-ify) the English word "Jesus" (by the way, I'm no fan of the poor transliteration 'Jesus'... I simply do not think people are damned to hell for using it).

It seems the author of the article thinks the Greeks spoke Spanish or some Spanish dialect, because he/she concluded that the Greek word for "Jesus" (IESOUS) sounds phonetically like "hey-soos". However, I (iota), E (eta), S (sigma), O (omikron), U (upsilon), S (sigma) more accurately sounds like "yeh-soos" NOT "hey-soos". It is extremely important to note that the Greek Iota was replacing the Hebrew letter Yod, not the Hebrew letter Heh.

Furthermore, the transliterated Hebrew word for Horse is not Hey-soos... it is Soos and simply sounds like Soos. When you put the word for "the" in front of any transliterated Hebrew word, it sounds and looks like "Ha" ...as in Ha-Machiach (which means the-Messiah). So "the Horse" would more accurately sound like "Ha-soos" ...which KINDA sounds similar to the way Spanish speakers say Jesus... but the attempt to make a connection between the two is really quite silly. There is no hidden/mysterious phonetics behind verses like Psalm 33:17 where men are simply being rebuked for trusting in horses as their source of strength, instead of trusting in the Creator of horses.

Some of my thoughts... not an exhaustive rebuttal of course. =)
Hanok

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  1. Shalom Hanok,
    Just wanted to shout out a hearty AMEN to your short treatise of the silly idea of Jesus meaning horse god or hail Zeus or some such thing. It is silly linguistics like this that continue to set up walls between us and many of our loved ones.


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