The ending -IYN may be a plural marking. She called her son BEN-ONIY, the son of my youth, and he called him BINYAMIYN, the son of my (many) days. I estimate that RAXEL was about 5 years old (proof: she was still single) when YAAQOB first set eyes on her.
What an ancient Hebrew name harbors is a riddle. Rest assured (by me) that $IMON has nothing to do with 'hear', that LEVIY (EL-ABIY?) has nothing to do with 'accompany', and that $IM$ON has nothing to do with 'sun'. Notice that the letter L (for EL?) is found in the names of all his four wives: Leah, raxeL, biLhah, ziLpah. Isaac Fried, Boston University On Oct 1, 2011, at 10:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > The name BN-YMYN _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
