Let’s talk ancient Hebrew grammar. I love this stuff. The term for wedding rings in Hebrew is taba’ot nisuin. The term for ring is taba’at. The root t.b.a. has many meanings in Hebrew. One is nature. Comparing wedding rings to nature, then, is pretty natural, in that the first commandment to mankind in the Bible is to be fruitful and multiply, nature’s most basic instinct. Mankind does that by marriage, the symbol of which is the wedding ring.
