[B-Greek] The etymology of Abraham

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Tue Oct 3 16:39:20 EDT 2006


George F Somsel wrote:
> 
> Harold,
>  
> Whether you wish to derive it from (aM or from HaMoWN, it still doesn't 
> work, does it?  Let's put aside this silliness of etymologies.

HH: You evidently did not fully read my post, 
since you did not mention the possibility that I 
gave, the idea that the name is to be divided as 
"ab raham," where raham has a meaning like 
"multitude" that a similar word in Arabic 
apparently does.

HH: By the way, it is not silly to investigate the 
etymology of the word, since God Himself made a 
point that the name was meaningful.

HH: It may be that the particular word was archaic 
and has been lost to Hebrew. And Abraham may not 
have even spoken exactly what we consider biblical 
Hebrew. He lived more than four hundred years 
before Moses left Egypt.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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