[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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