The Letter Vav - Symbol of Connection

And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks [vavim] were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

Exodus 36:36

The name of the sixth letter וו (vav, S# H2053) means a nail or hook. It appears thirteen times in Exodus in the description of the Tabernacle, translated as "hook". This seamlessly integrates with the grammar of the Hebrew language where Vav functions as the copulative - the Hebrew form of and - when prefixed to a word. Vav "hooks" the words together. This is how it is used in all the av. Scripture exhibits this meaning of Vav when Leah gave birth to Levi:

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

Genesis 29:33

The name לוי (Levi) is easily analysed in terms of the symbolic meaning of its primary letters as:

Levi = Lamed (To/For) and Vav (Connection)

The meaning of Levi's name as given in the text of Scripture integrates perfectly with the symbolic meaning of the letters comprising it! It is also profoundly integrated with the function of the Levitical Priesthood. This is the divine Wisdom of the Hebrew language and the Biblical revelation.

Levi's name also informs us as to the function of the priesthood known by his name. The Levitical Priesthood was designed by God as a type or image of the intercession of Christ our High Priest. As it is written:

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

Exodus 28.11f

This meaning of Vav also integrates with the broader sense of the Number 6, which is the Number of Man and Cosmos which were completed on the Sixth Day of Creation.

Insight from the Gematria Reference

The ultimate meaning of Vav is found in the completion of the Cosmos in the creation of Adam on the Sixth Day. This integrates with the numerical weight of the Hebrew word for Six:

This is the root reason for the Hexagonal symmetry that characterizes the Creation HyperHolograph.

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