Uri: I will be writing an article on the hillarious state of affairs regarding the names of the Arab countries surrounding Israel: at least three of four have Hebrew names! Mitzrayim, Yarden (Ever HaYarden or TransJordan), and Levanon -- all Hebrew....Obvious, since they were named by the Colonial powers. What this implies about the supposed nationhood of the respective Arab states surrounding Israel is a very interesting discussion, though not for this group. Suffice it to say the Arab 'Spring' and its aftermath says enough about the topic.
On Syria though, I have a question -- is this a name with a Tanakh origin (Sirion?) or Greek or Latin? Uzi Silber On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Uri Hurwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > During the brief discussion here of the etymology > of the name Misr ( Egypt in Arab.), nobody seemed > to remember that in the Hebrew bible this name > occurs only in the dual -Micrayim (or Mitzrayim). > > Any theory about that? Is that a diachronic marker, > namely that the name was first used by Hebrew scribes, > when there was a division between upper and lower Egypt? > George, any opinion? > > Uri Hurwitz > > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >
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