A Hebrew personal name is not a grammatically structured word. YOSEP need not be from the root YSP, but is reasonably the compound YO-SEP with the theophoric component YO = YA, as in YA-AQOB. One may equally well partition BENYAMIYN as BEN-YA-AMIYN. I can hardly see a mother in her right mind calling her child Son-of- my-right-hand (hand made?), or Look-a-son, or He-will-laugh, ect.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On Sep 25, 2011, at 7:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: > “Son of my Right Hand” -- Ben-Jamin _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
