What is God's name?
Could someone tell me what is God's name according to the film?
shareIt's the 216 digit number Max is looking for that eventually winds up in his memory.
shareI know that. What I want to know is after you decode the 216 digit number what would be the result in letters.
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Probably gibberish. How many words do you know with that many letters?
shareWords and passages have little to no meaning without a proficient understanding and command of their originating language.
First off, it's essential understanding the "secret name" of God (216 letters long) CAN'T be spoken nor pronounced in any language other than Hebrew from which is originates.
As with most, the Hebrew language has certain letters NOT FOUND in the English alphabet and vice versa. Thus, rendering the name unspellable, unspeakable and unpronounceable other than in Hebrew given that strategic foundation.
In all likelihood, it's not actually a "name" per se but rather some venerable spoken way of addressing the Lord based upon holy scripture as contained within the Torah. The meaning of which only "God can understand" thus acknowledge in response to.
Of equal importance, many languages don't have certain words found in others. For example, the German language doesn't have any single word equivalent to our English word "bat."
The way they deal with that shortcoming is simply by using several words spoken in succession (often merged together as one) TO DESCRIBE what a "bat" is.
Thus, the word "bat" once translated into German becomes "Fledermaus" which actually means "flying mouse." That underlying principle further accounting for the many inordinately long words contained within the German language.
Of equal importance, many languages don't have certain words found in others. For example, the German language doesn't have any single word equivalent to our English word "bat."Nonsense. There is no "shortcoming". Fledermaus *is* the German word for the animal that the English language calls "bat". What's more: the German language had a word for "bat" (namely: Old High German fledarmus) well before the occurrence of the Middle English term (bakke/balke; derived from North Germanic/Old Norse leðrblaka, literally "leather-flapper") that was eventually turned into "bat". And according to your logic, that original North Germanic/Old Norse word was a "DESCRIPTION" too. [bakke/balke is pretty much a one-to-one equivalent of fleder, they both mean "to flap". By the way, the German word for "flying" is fliegend(er/e/es), not fleder.]
The way they deal with that shortcoming is simply by using several words spoken in succession (often merged together as one) TO DESCRIBE what a "bat" is.
Thus, the word "bat" once translated into German becomes "Fledermaus" which actually means "flying mouse." That underlying principle further accounting for the many inordinately long words contained within the German language.
According to your logic, the English language has no single word for this animal either: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Hippopotamus_-_04.jpg/250px-Hippopotamus_-_04.jpg
[According to your logic, the English language dealt with a "shortcoming" by stealing a Greek succession of terms that DESCRIBES what that animal is: a "horse of the river".]
Would you argue that the English language doesn't have any single word equivalent to the German word Mangel, since the direct English translation of that word is "shortcoming", which is a succession of the words "short" and "coming" in order to merely describe what a "shortcoming" is?
Or that the English language doesn't have any single word equivalent to the German word Schmetterling, since the direct English translation is "butterfly", which is a succession of the terms "butter" and "fly", which in Old English or Middle English apparently somehow described what a "butterfly" is?
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Your reply to mine is wholly off-topic and trollish thus deserves and shall receive no further reply.
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