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GOD & THE BIBLE
THITHERWARD
According to the index of the New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, in the Hebrew language of the Bible, the following word is identified as ‘thitherward’.
hennah – ‘hither’ or ‘thither’ (but used both of place and time); ‘here’, ‘hither’, ‘hitherto’, ‘now’, ‘on this side’, ‘on that side’, ‘since’, ‘this way’, ‘that way’, ‘thitherward’, ‘thus far’, ‘to…fro’, ‘yet’ [Entry 2009 Hebrew from Entry 2004]
DERIVED FROM
hen – ‘they’ (only used when emphatic); ‘in’, ‘such like’, ‘with them’, ‘thereby’, ‘therein’, ‘in which’, ‘whom’, ‘withal’ [Entry 2004 Hebrew feminine plural from Entry 1931]
DERIVED FROM
huw and (feminine) hiy – a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’; only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensive) ‘self’ or (especially with the article) ‘the same’; sometimes (as the demonstrative) ‘this’ or ‘that’; occasionally (instead of copula) ‘as’ or ‘are’; ‘he’, ‘as for her’, ‘him’, ‘he himself’, ‘she herself’, ‘such’, ‘that…it’, ‘these’, ‘they’, ‘this’, ‘those’, ‘which is’, ‘who’ [Entry 1931 Hebrew]
It is what the ancient scribes intended, hennah means ‘hither’, ‘thither’ and ‘thitherward’.
GODWARD
According to the index of the New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, in
the Hebrew language of the Bible, the following word is identified as ‘GOD-
muwl or mowl or mul – properly ‘abrupt’, i.e. ‘a precipice’; by implication ‘the front’; used only adverbially (with preposition preferred) ‘opposite’; ‘forefront’, ‘front’, ‘from’, ‘Godward’, ‘toward’, ‘with’ [Entry 4136 Hebrew from Entry 4135]
DERIVED FROM
muwl – a primitive root meaning ‘to cut short’, i.e. ‘to curtail’ (specifically the prepuce, i.e. ‘to circumcise’); by implication ‘to blunt’; figuratively ‘to destroy’; ‘to circumcise’, ‘circumcising’, ‘to circumcise selves’, ‘to cut down’, ‘to cut in pieces’, ‘to destroy’, ‘must needs’ [Entry 4135 Hebrew]
In short (no pun intended though there actually is one), according to the scholars of the New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, the act of circumcision sends the ‘blessed one’ Godward.