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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Where do people get this word Shekinah from?
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Originally Posted by Bowas
Jewish Kabbalistic mystics and mysticism has entered into the Apostolic Church.
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Indeed... invoking female deities under the guise of the only and only wise God... and calling it prophecy from God while they're at it.
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Shekhinah (alternative transliterations Shekinah, Shechinah, Shekina, Shechina, Schechinah,
שכינה) is the English spelling of a grammatically feminine
Hebrew language word that means the
dwelling or
settling, and is used to denote the dwelling or settling presence of
God, especially in the
Temple in Jerusalem.
Shekhinah is derived from the Hebrew verb שכן. In
Biblical Hebrew the word means literally
to settle, inhabit, or
dwell, and is used frequently in the
Hebrew Bible. (See
Exodus 40:35, "Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested [
shakhan] upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the
Tabernacle." See also e.g.
Genesis 9:27, 14:13,
Psalms 37:3,
Jeremiah 33:16), as well as the weekly
Shabbat blessing recited in the
Temple in Jerusalem ("May He who causes His name to dwell [
shochan] in this House, cause to dwell among you love and brotherliness, peace and friendship"). In Mishnaic Hebrew the word is often used to refer to birds' nesting and nests. ("Every bird nests [
shechinot] with its kind, and man with its like, Talmud Baba Kammah 92b.) and can also mean "neighbor" ("If a neighbor and a scholar, the scholar is preferred" Talmud Ketubot 85b). The word "Shekhinah" also means "royalty" or "royal residence" (The
Greek word σκήνη - dwelling - is thought to be derived from שכינה and שכן.[
citation needed]) The word for
Tabernacle,
mishcan, is a derivative of the same root and is also used in the sense of dwelling-place in the Bible, e.g.
Psalm 132:5 ("Before I find a place for God,
mishcanot (dwelling-places) for the Strong One of Israel.") Accordingly, in classic
Jewish thought, the Shekhinah refers to a dwelling or settling in a special sense, a dwelling or settling of divine presence, to the effect that, while in proximity to the Shekhinah, the connection to God is more readily perceivable.
According to Professor Kern, Shekhinah means "the presence of God."[
citation needed] practically the same as the Greek word "
Parousia also a feminine word (literally: "presence") which is used in a similar way for "Divine Presence".
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