genesis 29:32-33 confirm that the name given then, related often to the circumstances of birth. .... "see-son" and "hear," respectively.
didn't american indians so name their sons and daughters? our culture today names their children without rhyme or reason; but the culture then, apparently differed in the naming of children, for a variety of reasons. regards, fred burlingame On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > Strange, strange, curios, curios. > > 1. Both ABRAHAM (Ge. 17:17) and SARAH (Gen. 18:12) performed the act of צחק > inwardly, apparently without uttering a sound. > > 2. Then, in 18:13-15, there is this petty argument about the "laughing". > > 3. Then, in Gen. 21:3, it is stated that ABRAHAM called his son YICXAK, but > with no reference to this previous incident of the "laughing", except that > SARAH is saying now (21:6) that other people will laugh. The laugh of > derision? > > 4. Did SARAH call him by a different name? > > 5. The bible goes out of its way to make it clear to us that צחק is not > mere laughing, to wit: Gen. 21:9, Gen 26:8, Gen. 39:14 and Ex. 32:6. > > 6. I still can not imagine parents calling their son by the silly name of > Willlaugh. I suspect you might encounter objections from the registrar upon > trying > to call a son Willsinganddance. > > 7. Conclusion: YICXAK is not what it seems to be. Namely, a Hebrew name is > not a Hebrew word. > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > > On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:14 PM, fred burlingame wrote: > > > Hello Isaac: > > A mother naming her son יצחק sounds entirely reasonable in the context of > this happening prior to pregnancy. > > ויאמר יהוה אל אברהם למה זה צחקה שרה לאמר האף אמנם אלד ואני זקנתי > > genesis 18:13 > > regards, > > fred burlingame > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 1. Consider my friend Yankaleh Xazanc'ic >> 2. Do you really believe that a mother in her right mind would call her >> son YICXAK, 'he will laugh'? >> >> Isaac Fried, Boston University >> >> On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Arnaud Fournet wrote: >> >> Who can believe that a Semitic name could be suffixed by the grammatical >>> morphemes of another language? >>> A. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> b-hebrew mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >> > > > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
