the Psalm has a seamless theme running through it: the Love Of The Lord and His Law (also called His "Precepts" or "Statutes"). And..
Psalm 119 starts with a set of couplets that all begin with the Letter "Aleph", which corresponds to the English Vowel "A". It also symbolizes the Number ONE in Hebrew Script. It is the BEGINNING in "The Beginning and the End". The two letters Aleph and Tav when placed next to each other in script becomes the "Beginning and the End", The Alpha and the Omega (Greek)" or the "A to Z" in English. The "Aleph-Tav" appears in the first line of the Torah (Genesis 1:1) and in the Last Chapter of the Revelation (I am the Alpha and The Omega".)
This really ties in with the theme of the previous Psalm about His loving-kindness being forever: "open to me" the gates of righteousness, that *this* is the gate of the Lord, and that the stone [precept, embodied in the son of God] the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. Seems like mixed metaphors but not really, because
The word and description of the cornerstone doesn't not specify if it is the chief cornerstone that is the first stone laid in the construction/dedication of a building, or the capstone - the last stone placed as its crown.
It (the stone, the precept) is both the first and the last, the beginning and the end. It/He is the sum of all knowledge as it were, reduced in an allegory to two letters.
The concept of "the first and last" is emphasized in both Hebrew and the Greek with the letters (the alef-tav you mentioned is an Hebrew particle, a grammatical pointer to a direct i.e. definitive object). *The* heavens and *the* earth are thus each introduced by the grammatical particle "et" (את). From "A to Z" as the sum of knowledge/information is of course an English language idiom, but the Hebrew and Greek letters also have numeric values.
alef - 1
tav - 400
alpha - 1
omega - 800
Total: 1202
This is also the sum of the first three words of the Torah (בראשית ברא אלהים), right before the alef-tav particle. I don't know all the Greek gematrias by sight, so it will take me a bit to see is there is something going in in Rev 22:21.
1202 is the gematria of
העץ אשר צויתיך
"the tree of which I commanded you" (Gen 3:11, 3:17); that is, the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The precept that the builders [of human establishments] refuse is the Golden Rule.
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Interesting that in Gen 3:3, the woman describes the tree as "the tree that is in the midst of the garden" (העץ אשר בתוך־הגן), which = 1152. 50 short of 1202, the "sum" of all knowledge A to Z - alef to tav and alpha to omega. 50... there's a lot going on with that number, such as the 50 day counting of the omer until the giving of the Law on Shavuot. Fifty gates of understanding, and so on..
kol (כל) = all = 50
The full spelling is kaf (כף) lamed (למד), which = 174, same as the Greek word for book (βιβλίον).
It shows up in the context of all being all: no adding, no subtracting:
Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
the Psalm has a seamless theme running through it: the Love Of The Lord and His Law
Come to think of it, the English alphabet has 26 letters. Therefore, "A to Z " is... YHVH (יהוה) = 26
And that the difference between kol (כל all, 50) and its full spelling which is also Biblion (βιβλίον book, 174) is 124, which is Eden (עדן). :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_mathematics
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