Samekh     s & S

The 15th letter, Samekh, is the image of the thorn and the thistle growing up from the ground as man took upon himself the uncleanliness of sin and was sent away from the Tree of Life in the Garden of the Lord (Gen 3:18). The sound of Samekh is the sound of the serpent, the Deceiver. But, just as the Lord covered the nakedness of man with the skin of the sacrificed lamb (Gen 3:21), the Lord covers the nakedness of the repentant in Mashiach (Christ) with the blood of the Lamb of the Lord. Yeshua laid his life upon the thorn to receive our sin and its burden that we who have turned from our sin toward the Lord Almighty might be seen as clean (righteous) and renewed in our relationship with the Lord, who reigns forever, amen. It was a crown of thorns laid upon the head (see 20th letter) of Yeshua; and if Samekh is turned (on its side), then it is the image of the three crosses together upon Golgotha (the Skull) (Jhn 19:5, 17). This beginning form of the letter Samekh is found in the holy of holies of Bayit (of the fist) as the etsba'ot (4 fingers) crush upon the trunk of the thorn tree (invisible, looking at the space between) with the branches as the gaps of (between) the etsba'ot forming a crown of thorns for the head of the Bayit (the fist). As Yeshua received upon himself the sin of the believer, the Father's wrath came upon Yeshua instead of the believer. This is seen in the horns of the Aleph in the palms of the hands goring the horizontal beam of the cross of the Bayit where Yeshua's pierced hands would lay. If the Bayit is seen as the head where the horns of the Aleph of the face also gore the horizontal beam of the cross at the mouth (see Tav), then Dalets (fingernails) of the Bayit (fist) appear as the upper teeth in the holy place of the mouth. So also, the image of the Samekh on its side is that of the teeth, as the teeth are the place of continuous sacrifice which bring death to the sacrifice to bring life to the body. This is why the Lake of Burning Fire and Sulfur is a place of gnashing teeth (Mt 13:42; Luk 13:28; Rev 20:10).

As the beginning form of Samekh is in the shape of a fish skeleton, the final form is the image of the clean fish (with fins & scale) seen at the bottom of the nose, which is the door to continuous life (See Nun). A clean fish is representing the person whose sin and burden is transferred to Yeshua ha'Mashiach laid on the Tree (Cross) upon the Skull (see He(y), clean fish). So, the lower jaw and upper body with raised arms of Yeshua on the Cross is seen upon the skull in the image of the valley turned up into a Gimel (mountain) of the fish head and fins (Samekh upside-down to right-side up) (This image of Yeshua on the Cross is seen throughout the skull, see images & Raysh). This points to the person who commits their whole person to a relationship with Yeshua as Lord (God) and Savior to allow them to partake of the Tree of Life (Yeshua upon the Tree) to become seen as clean and holy to have continuous spiritual life with the Lord (the 5 of 15, see He(y) and Nun).

With Samekh meaning to lean upon, transferring of self, and bring renewal (make clean), we can understand how an unclean person (sinner) laying a hand upon the head of the sacrifice transfers the person's self along with the burden (punishment) of their sin to the sacrifice, bringing death to the sacrifice and renewed innocent life to the person of the hand that came from the innocent perfect sacrifice (Lev 1:4; 3:2, 8, 13; 4:4, 15, 24, 29, 33). Animal sacrifices (see Chayet) can not renew a life but symbolically point toward the Lamb of the Lord (Yeshua, Jhn 1:29), who being the Head of the Body, laid upon the Cross (representing the sin of the hand of the person claiming the sacrifice as their own) to take upon himself the death of sin to bring renewing eternal life to the person of the Hand (See Yad) (Heb 10:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18).

Just as a person lays his hand upon the Head (Yeshua) to transfer their whole self of authority, unholiness, and burden to the Head; so the Head transfers his whole self of authority, holiness, and blessings to the person of the Hand. This person of the Hand then goes forth in the authority of Yeshua to spread authority, holiness, and blessings through the laying on of the hands to others willing to lean upon Yeshua and lay their whole self down upon the Head of the Body (Jhn 14:12, 13, 14, 15; Matt 28:18, 19, 20).