[b-hebrew] RE: Mesha & Moshe

Kevin Barney klbarney at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 19 14:28:03 EDT 2003


For anyone who is interested, the current issue of
Bible Review is an article exploring in some detail
the etymology of Moses' name.

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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:50:31 -0400
> From: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin at utc.edu>
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Mesha & Moshe
> To: <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Of course it is - you don't need the inscription,
> look at 2 Kings 3:4 (in
> Hebrew, of course). Mesha (mem-yod-shin-'aiyn) is
> derived from the root Y$(
> ("saved/will save"), and is similar in meaning to
> Joshua (YH saves) and Jesus.
> The precise etymology of Moses, M$H (Mosheh -
> mem-shin-he) is not clear.
> Ex. 2:10 gives a Hebrew etymology - "ki min
> hammayyim MESHITIHU", "for out
> of the water I [Pharaoh's daughter] have drawn him."
>  But I doubt if
> Pharaoh's daughter spoke Hebrew. It has been
> suggested that the source is
> Egyptian, "mose" meaning "born of", like in the
> names Thutmose and Ahmose.
> 
> In any case, Mesha' and Moses are totally different.
> 
> Yigal
> 
>

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Kevin L. Barney
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
klbarney at yahoo.com

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