In the evening you will know that YHWH has brought you out of Egypt,Īnd in the morning you will see The Kabod YHWH, because he has heard your murmurings against YHWH.Īlready, something curious is going on: The Kabod YHWH can discern and process human speech. The people had complained about hunger, so Moses and Aaron were speaking the words of YHWH to them. The first reference to The Kabod YHWH occurs here.
The analysis of these citations will proceed chronologically and cover the most salient references, excluding the remainder for considerations of space.įorty-five days after the Hebrews left Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sin. The full phrase appears 35 times, with a referential word or phrase cited 28 more times. The כבוד יהוה is cited 63 times in the Tanakh, by my count. This paper will investigate the full context for this extraordinary claim.
In the Tanakh, the kabod is a "manifestation" of YHWH Himself. Under the sub-entry for כְבוֹד יהוה (kə ' bôd YHWH), we read that it is broadly connected with phenomena of light in secular and religious sources. In the Septuagint-the Greek translation of the Hebrew Tanakh, the Old Testament-it is always translated by the word δόξα. Its entry lists four meanings for כָבוֹד (kâ ' bôd) in its general sense: Since kabod is not a commonly-known Hebrew word, let us begin with the standard lexicon.
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