Fred: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:32 PM, fred burlingame <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello all: > > Do not Leah & Rachel instruct that one should look to the verb from whence > it was hewn, for proper understanding of all names? > > genesis 29:32-35; 30: 6, 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 24. > No, just for the names of their sons. Other names may not be directly derived from the contexts, though often are understandable from their contexts, e.g. 1 Samuel 1:20 where the name means “God placed him” because Hannah “asked for him”. > > Reference to other languages and theories complex, unnecessary? > For Hebrew names—true. For other Semitic names, true within their languages. > > regards, > > fred burlingame > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
