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READING THE BIBLE
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Hebrew in the News
Did you know that Hebrew words permeate our daily language
and even the news?
In most cases, when we use Hebrew words in our daily language or hear them all around us we seldom recognize them as such. Here is another common word we usually do not associate with Hebrew. Today's word is: "Enter"... and, yes, this word is a Biblical Hebrew name!
In the Hebrew text of the Tanach we find this word (among other places) in the book of Song of Songs 1:6 ..."Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept..."
From this word we get: Enter or to be allowed in, Intern or to be a part of the inner circle of knowledge, "Inter-related", "Notary" and other words that may imply entering a guarded circle.
Every day we hear and speak so many Hebrew words in our conversation and even in the news. Here is another word we hear often but usually do not associate with Hebrew:
Today's word is: "Syria"... and, yes, this country's name is a Biblical Hebrew name!
In the Hebrew text of the Tanach we find this word (among many other places) in the book of Psalms 34:15:
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
סוּר מֵרָע וַעֲשֵׂה טוֹב בַּקֵּשׁ שָׁלוֹם וְרָדְפֵהוּ
The word "SUR" in Hebrew means "to stray" to deviate, or to depart. From this word we get today "Syria." The name of this country is referred to in the Bible as "Damascus" but oddly enough the name Syria ("she who deviated") is chosen for her in modern times. We also get in the English language words like Surrealism (departed from realism), Surname (other than the "real" name), and so on.
Every day we speak so many Hebrew words and hear them all around us, even in the news. Here is another word we hear often but usually do not associate with Hebrew.
Today's word is: "Palestine"... and, yes, it is a Biblical Hebrew word! In the Hebrew text of the Torah we find this word (among many other places) in the book of Exodus 13:17.
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: 'Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.
וַיְהִי בְּשַׁלַּח פַּרְעה אֶת הָעָם וְלא נָחָם אֱלהִים דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּים כִּי קָרוֹב הוּא כִּי אָמַר אֱלהִים פֶּן יִנָּחֵם הָעָם בִּרְאתָם מִלְחָמָה וְשָׁבוּ מִצְרָיְמָה.
The Philistines were sea faring people who conquered the land around what is today the Gaza strip, on the boarder of Israel and Egypt. They had five main cities and were a thorn in the side of the Israelites for several hundreds of years, until they completely vanished from the pages of history. Because they were not natives to the land of Israel and came from the outside, they were called in the Bible "The Invaders".
The root "to invade" in Hebrew is פ.ל.ש (Peh, Lamed, Shin) therefore they were called "Plishtim". Later on, after the rebellion against the Romans (70 AD) and the exile of the people of Israel, the name of the land of the Jews was changed by the Romans to "Palestina" to remind the Jews of their old enemy. In the beginning of the 20th century this name was again used under the British mandate.
From this word we get today: "Palestine", the land of the invaders, "Palestinian" an individual invader, "Palestinians", many invaders, etc. The Palestinians of today have no connection to the original invaders, but it seems that they insist on calling themselves "invaders" anyway (and who are we to argue with that?)...
So many Hebrew words are heard and spoken in our daily conversations and even in the news every day. Here is another word we hear often but do not associate it with Hebrew:
Today's word is: "Law"... and, yes, it is a Hebrew word!
The Hebrew name of the tribe of Levi who was in charge of disseminating the law of the Torah. The Levites were the firs "lawyers" of Israel. They did not receive a portion of the land, but were ordered to live among the other tribes of Israel and implement the law.
In the Hebrew text of the Bible we find this word (among other places) in the book of Genesis 29:34 103:11 ...
"Again she (Leah) conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, 'Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.' So he was named Levi".
וַתַּהַר עוֹד, וַתֵּלֶד בֵּן, וַתּאמֶר עַתָּה הַפַּעַם יִלָּוֶה אִישִׁי אֵלַי, כִּי-יָלַדְתִּי לוֹ שְׁלשָׁה בָנִים; עַל-כֵּן קָרָא-שְׁמוֹ, לֵוִ
From this Hebrew word we get, "law, lawyer, Levi," etc.
Today's word is: "CONSTITUTION"... and, yes, it is a Hebrew word! The three dominant phonetic sounds you hear when you say "Constitution" are K.N.S. Which when translated to Hebrew letters are כ.נ.ס. (Kaf, Nun, Samech) This gives us a Hebrew root meaning "to gather, to assemble, to collect in one place, to convene, meeting, conference, etc."
In the Hebrew text of the Bible we find this word (among other places) in the book of Psalms 33:7
"He gathers the waters of the sea into jars;
he puts the deep into storehouses".
"כנֵס כַּנֵּד מֵי הַיָּם נתֵן בְּאצָרוֹת תְּהוֹמוֹת"
The parliament in Israel is called "Ke- Ne-Set". That is a place where we gather the law makers. In the American constitution we gather the laws. From this Hebrew word we get: "constitution, constituency, constitute, constellation, construction, etc.
In the Hebrew text of the Bible we find this word (among other places) in the book of Judges 4:11:
"Now Heber the Kenite had departed from
the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab,
Moses's brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree
in Zaanannim near Kedesh".
וְחֶבֶר הַקֵּינִי נִפְרָד מִקַּיִן מִבְּנֵי חבָב חתֵן משֶׁה וַיֵּט אָהֳלוֹ עַד אֵלוֹן בצענים אֲשֶׁר אֶת קֶדֶשׁ
From this Hebrew word we get: "Part, Party, prototype, partition, portion, etc.
Today's word is: "REFORM"... and, yes, it is a Hebrew word!
The three dominant phonetic sounds you hear when you say "Re-form" are P.R.M. Which when translated to Hebrew letters are .פ.ר.מ (Peh, Resh, Mem). This gives us a Biblical Hebrew root meaning "to unravel, to open seam, to return something to its root state"...
In the Hebrew text of the Bible we find this word (among other places) in Leviticus 13:45:
"As for the person with a leprous affliction, his clothes shall be rent [torn apart at the seams], his head shall be left bare, and he shall cover over his upper lip; and he shall call out, "Unclean! Unclean!"
וְהַצָּרוּעַ אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ הַנֶּגַע בְּגָדָיו יִהְיוּ פְרֻמִים וְרֹאשׁוֹ יִהְיֶה פָרוּעַ וְעַל-שָׂפָם יַעְטֶה וְטָמֵא טָמֵא יִקְרָא
From this Hebrew word we get: "form, re-form, formation, etc.
Today's word is (appropriately) MONEY... and, Yes, it is a Hebrew word!
The three phonetic elements you hear when you say "Money" are M.N.H. Which when translated to Hebrew letters are מ.נ.ה (Mem, Nun, Heh). This gives us a Biblical Hebrew root meaning "amount, counting, portion, share, ration, measure, ratio"... you get the idea.
In the Hebrew text of the Bible we find this word in many places, among them you can look up Numbers 23:10 and I Samuel 1:5. From this Hebrew word we get: "money, monitor, monitoring, monetary, etc.
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