Many believe ehad to mean a compound unity in and of itself. Every time the meaning "compound unity" is accepted in a passage, there are two or more things to be comprised into a single unit.
Notice in Genesis 1:5, a compound unity is observed. The evening (one item) and the morning (another
item) were the first (ehad) day. Because two items, morning and
evening, are mentioned, ehad is
denoting a single unity that is compound. It is compound in that the morning and evening cause there to be the first or one day (single).
In Genesis 2:24, a compound unity is apparent.
There are two items involved to cause a single unit to be compound.
There is the man and there is his wife that he shall cleave unto.
These two (they) shall be one (ehad) flesh. So the two of them, shall
be one single unit.
In Genesis 34:22, a compound unity is clearly seen. You can't count more than one term but one can understand
that people means more than one person. These people would be a
single unit (ehad), meaning there would be a single group of people that
are sharing something common to each other.
OK these were passages where clearly a compound unity is denoted
where the word "ehad" is used. It is seen with no mistake from the
above passages that ehad has been used to categorize more than one
item into a single unit, whatever they may be.
Ehad is used in passages to mean a single item or a single unit. It is used much like the English word "one". There is one gorilla, there is one goat, there is one person, etc. There is one team, there is one day, there is one family, there is one group, there is one bunch of grapes, etc. One continues to mean one and no more than that.
In Nehemiah 5:18, ehad is being used to describe an ox.
Please imagine an ox. Only a single animal must have been
imagined that was an ox. "Now that which was prepared for me daily was
one (ehad) ox...". It was a single animal. There is no compound that one
should gather from this. Unless (to consider all possibilities) we say
the arms the legs, the head, etc make one ox. There are not two or more
items involved to categorize into a single unit causing a compound
unity to be had. It does not say "now that which was prepared for me
daily was arms, legs, head, etc and they were ehad ox". It just
mentions the single animal. It is singular in every way with no
other nouns to clarify a compound unity at all.
Leviticus 26:26, ten women
shall bake your bread in one (ehad) oven. OK one might point out (and has pointed out) that there are ten women using the oven in the verse. Ten women even though there is the plurality, do not form a
single oven. Ehad is being used to describe a single oven. If one
pictures their oven in the kitchen, they should imagine a single
oven/unit. One oven, is describing a singular oven, which is why there
is no compound unity that can be concluded from the verse.
Deuteronomy 28:7, "..they shall come out against thee one (ehad)
way..". The word "they" is used. However, they, the enemies, do not form one way. Ehad is being used to describe a single way. There is no compound unity in the verse, because there is not two or more of anything clarified
to cause there to be a compound in one unit. One way is just one way.
Deuteronomy 17:6 begins talking about two witness, then three witness,
then talks about only one witness. As follows, "...but at the mouth of one (ehad) witness he shall not be put to death." Ehad is describing a
single witness. This verse is not demonstrating a compound unity at all. One witness is a single individual, two is two, and three is three. Everything
about the usage of ehad in the verse is singular without any compound.
It was pointed out in the past concerning 1 Kings 6:25 by a Trinitarian believer, "Well, obviously there are two cherubims, so it
means compound unity here also". The text is, "Both the
cherubims were of one measure and one (ehad) size." If there is one size, there is a particular standard, or
designation of measurement. Two cherubims do not form, make, or cause
there to be one (ehad) size. Compare to Genesis 1:5. The
morning and the evening cause there to be one single day. In 1 Kings
6:25 two cherubims do not cause the one size, to actually be the one
size. There is one single size that both the cherubims fit because they
are of one measurement. For instance, if two people wear the same
dress size they don't cause the measurement or size to be what it is,
they just can fit the same single size of dress.
Leviticus 16:8 uses the ehad twice. "And Aaron
shall cast lots upon the two goats; one (ehad) for the LORD, and the
other (ehad) lot for the scapegoat." There is no compound unity here to
denote a compound unity for either of the times that it is used. One lot means, a single lot. It is singular in and of itself here.
In Deuteronomy 6:4, there is no reason that ehad would mean compound unity in
this verse because of how it is used. Hear, O Israel: The LORD
(YHVH) our God (Elohenu) is one (ehad) LORD (YHVH). It has been mentioned in the past that God is mentioned three times in this verse by a Trinitarian believer.
"Hear, O Israel : The LORD (1) our God (2) is one LORD (3)"
They are saying that God is mentioned 3 times here. The verse is talking about the same one God, not different individuals in any way (Ex:Galatians 3:20, 1 Timothy 2:5-6, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Isaiah 45:18). Being able to count to three does not prove a compound unity just as "holy, holy, holy" (1,2,3 times) does not prove a
compound unity in Isaiah 6:3 and Revelation 4:8. YHVH is not more than one individual according to Deuteronomy 6:4. It is not stating that more than one is YHVH and the word three does not exist in that verse. The subject of this verse is YHVH (He is our God). YHVH (our God) is being described
here as one. YHVH, who is our God, is one (ehad) YHVH. He is the only one. There is no plurality included
in this verse that causes ehad to mean a compound in one
unity, or three persons in a single unit called trinity. Jesus gave
clarification on this, and the scribe confirmed the correct meaning by his response.
Mark 12:29,30
29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is
the first commandment.
Jesus was talking to a Jewish scribe. Consider his response.
Mark 12:32
32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
There is one God, and there
is none other but He. The scriptures do not describe the one God as three in any way or state that three individuals or "persons" are the one God. Jesus doesn't describe his God in this way. Only one is truly God according to Jesus- Micah 5:4, Malachi 2:10, John 20:16-17.
Jesus is the one that the only true God sent- John 6:28-29, John 8:42
John 17
1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee:
2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Romans 15:5-7
5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father- Philippians 2, Acts 2:22-39, Ephesians 1. Amen.
