The Universe: The One Verse.

Did you know that in Hebrew, the word for “word” is also the word for “thing”?…or matter???

The Hebrew word is “davar” (דָּבָר) — and it’s one of the most mind-blowing concepts in all of Scripture.

In English, a word is just sound. It’s symbolic. It describes something else. But in Hebrew — the original language of the Old Testament — a word isn’t just a description of a thing. The word is the thing. And more specifically: the word is matter.

Because matter is a thing.

So in Hebrew thought, a word is not just sound — it’s substance.

That means when God speaks, He isn’t just narrating or suggesting something.

He’s manifesting matter.

Now go back to Genesis 1 with that in mind:

“And God said, ‘Let there be light’ — and there was light.”

In Hebrew, this isn’t poetic flair. This is literal causality. The very act of God speaking produces physical reality.

So when it says, “And God said,” the Hebrew mindset understands:

“God brought real, tangible matter into existence — by His word.”

His “davar” — His word — is also His deed.

It gets even deeper: John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

In Greek, the word used is Logos, which means divine reason, structure, and blueprint.

So both Hebrew and Greek agree:

The Word of God isn’t just a message. It’s the blueprint and the material of reality itself.

Think about that.

God spoke the universe into existence.

Words became atoms.

Speech became substance.

The spiritual produced the physical.

Every tree, every planet, every molecule, every breath — all of it originated not from chaos or randomness, but from a Word.

And that Word still speaks. Still holds everything together.

When the Bible says “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,” it’s not a metaphor. It’s a cosmic truth. We were made by His Word — and we’re sustained by it.

Language, at its root, is sacred. And Hebrew reminds us that true words don’t just describe reality. They create it.

So yeah… “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”?

That was matter being spoken into existence.

And here’s the mic drop:

Another way to say “universe” is “uni-verse” —  “ The Onne Verse.”

One verse. One Word. One God.

In the beginning……God….created heavens….and the Earth.