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biblical names - 1/30/2009 12:36:01 PM
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sgpianoman
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Upon study and listening to sermons ect, I take notice of the biblical names and their meanings.
When the parents were naming their children, did they know what the names would mean? It seems interesting that a vast majority of the names were very close to the people's characteristics. Did they name in HOPES that the childs character would match? Or were their name attributes given after their death?
I thought it was an interesting thought/ discussion
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RE: biblical names - 1/30/2009 2:24:26 PM
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BookerG
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The earliest names (before the tower of Babel) may not originally have been in Hebrew. So they might have been given the names we know them by after the fact. And the Jews seem to have thought of names as somewhat flexible: Jacob, Simon and Saul are probably not the only fellows in Biblical times whose names changed (and maybe Naomi, if she was serious when she said "call me Marah", and Daniel and his friends as well as John/Mark who had multiple names...). I think only when you're told the parents named him so-and-so, and perhaps told why they picked the name, that we can say the name we know was theirs at birth.
I suppose some people lived up to their names (or down to them) if parents impressed on them their expectations as the child was growing up. Our names don't usually mean anything to us, but if throughout your childhood, people called you "Gift of God" or "Heel grabber" or "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoils," it might well affect your character and how you turn out.
Did you have some specific examples in mind?
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RE: biblical names - 1/30/2009 3:25:22 PM
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navyblueret
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Perchance, the best way to see the true meaning of an Hebrew name is to start with the true Hebrew name. Mathew was something like Met-ti-'ya-hu, Saul was Shah-u-el, etc. Then you take the letters used in the name, each letter contributing to the overall message in the name.
When we speak a word, we think the word unto a 'blade of grass' simplicity. When an Israeli speaks a word, they think each letter unto a pictograph of complexity (sort of like watching a movie).
Try it, you'll like it. 
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