[B-Greek] hWSANNA

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Fri Feb 17 20:04:53 EST 2006


I read that hWSANNA is a Hebrew word that means something like -oh save- 
which sounds like an imperative.
I was wondering how this came to be an exclamation of praise in hWSANNA TWi 
hUIWi DAUID
It is an exlamation of praise is it not? It can't really mean Oh save (us) 
son of David because then the dative does not make sense.
Is this similar to the Nazi salute Heil Hitler? (Obviously I only mean to 
compare hosanna and heil, and not the persons.)
I think that Heil has a meaning similar to save or salvation as well. (I am 
comparing heil to a Dutch word for saviour, Heiland.)

One more question about this word. Had this word become a common exclamation 
that it did not get translated into Greek, in the same way that amen did?

Bert de Haan.





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