📜 YHWH REVEALED: MOTHER AND FATHER, WARRIOR AND COMFORTER

From the beginning, the 3 oldest Bible sources (Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic Scrolls, and Early Square Script) reveal something powerful that later translations hide: Yhwh transcends gender yet expresses Himself through both masculine and feminine traits.

This foundational truth shows Yhwh has no physical body and thus no biological gender. Yet when He reveals Himself, He uses both masculine and feminine imagery to help us understand His complete nature.

🧔 GOD AS FATHER AND WARRIOR (Masculine Traits)

The oldest Hebrew texts show Yhwh as:

• אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה (Ish milchamah) — "A man of war" (Exodus 15:3)
• אָבִינוּ (Avinu) — "Our Father" (Isaiah 64:8)
• מֶלֶךְ (Melech) — "King" (Psalm 47:7)

These masculine roles reveal Yhwh's strength, protection, authority, and discipline. In ancient Hebrew culture, these were primarily father qualities.

👩‍🍼 GOD AS MOTHER AND NURTURER (Feminine Traits)

The same ancient texts also show Yhwh as:

• כְּנֶשֶׁר (k'nesher) — "Like a mother eagle" stirring her nest (Deuteronomy 32:11)
• כְּאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר אִמּוֹ תְּנַחֲמֶנּוּ — "As one whom his mother comforts" (Isaiah 66:13)
• Crying out כַּיּוֹלֵדָה (ka'yoledah) — "like a woman in labor" (Isaiah 42:14)

These feminine images reveal Yhwh's nurturing, comfort, protection, and birth-giving aspects. These qualities were understood as primarily maternal in ancient Hebrew thought.

🕊️ THE FEMININE SPIRIT OF GOD

Most powerfully, in all three ancient sources, Yhwh's Spirit is grammatically feminine:

The Hebrew word for Spirit, רוּחַ (Ruach), is feminine. The verb מְרַחֶפֶת (merachefet = "was hovering") is in feminine form.

This same pattern appears throughout the Hebrew Bible:

• When the Spirit rests on leaders (Numbers 11:25) — feminine form
• When the Spirit moves the prophets (Ezekiel 2:2) — feminine form
• When the Spirit gives wisdom (Isaiah 11:2) — feminine form

💭 WISDOM AS GOD'S FEMININE VOICE

In Proverbs, Yhwh's Wisdom (חָכְמָה/Chokhmah) is portrayed as a woman who:

• Calls out in the streets (Proverbs 1:20)
• Was present at creation (Proverbs 8:22-31)
• Builds her house (Proverbs 9:1)

Early Hebrew understood Wisdom and Spirit as connected aspects of Yhwh's feminine presence.

🔥 WHY THIS MATTERS TODAY

Later Greek and Latin translations obscured this truth by:

• Changing Ruach (feminine) to Pneuma (neuter in Greek)
• Shifting spiritual language to male-dominated terminology
• Losing the balanced picture of God's nature

But the 3 ancient Bible sources preserve this richer understanding:

1. Yhwh is beyond gender (not male or female)
2. Yhwh expresses both masculine and feminine traits
3. Yhwh's Spirit is consistently portrayed with feminine language
4. Yhwh reveals Himself as Father AND Mother, Warrior AND Nurturer

✅ THE HEBREW TRUTH RESTORED

When we return to the original Hebrew understanding:

• We see Yhwh more completely
• We understand the feminine nature of His Spirit
• We break free from later, narrower interpretations

This isn't modern revisionism — it's the original truth from the earliest Bible sources, before Greek philosophical categories narrowed our understanding of the Divine.