[ancient_hebrew] Re: Lazarus

[kellyr]

Thanks so much!  Your information confirms it for me.  I will go w/ the Hebrew 
"Eleazar."  
--- In ancient_hebrew@yahoogroups.com, QwnsKnight <qwnskni...@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM, kellyr <kellyrif...@...> wrote:
> >  Is there any way that you'd be able to tell me how that is written in 
> > both ancient and modern Hebrew?
> 
> If http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lazarus is correct:
> "Via Late Latin Lazarus  from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lazaros), the New
> Testament Greek form of Old Testament Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (el'azár),
> literally “God has helped”; see Eleazar." --wiktionary.org
> 
> Then in both the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentatuech at Exod
> 6:23 it is spelled aleph-lamed-ayin-zayin-resh without these letters,
> then it does not mean 'El has helped'.
>