[b-hebrew] Bethsaida
Yigal Levin
leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il
Sun Feb 1 14:48:55 EST 2009
Karl,
Perhaps it went the other way: CYD first meant "hunting" (not as a sport but
as a way of providing food), and then the noun Cayyid took on the general
meaning of "provisions".
Yigal Levin
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From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Bethsaida
>
> Yigal:
>
> If it truly is TsYD the word meant in Beth-saida, I see the possibility
> that
> it started as a place preparing food for the fishermen and other boatmen.
> Possibly a family business. Then the place grew over time as other fishing
> related business located there.
>
> The word has as its basic root the meaning of getting provisions, such as
> for a journey. It is used that way in Joshua 9. See also Nehemiah 13:15.
> These stories also shows that hunting was not a sport, rather a way of
> getting provisions.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Yigal Levin
> <leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il>wrote:
>
>> It is often assumed that Beth-saida means "House of the hunters", with
>> the
>> form being Aramaic rather than Hebrew. Assuming the site to be on or near
>> the Sea of Galilee, the "hunters" would actually be fishermen. "Sidon",
>> the
>> well-know Pheonician port, would be dirived from the same word.
>>
>> Rami Arav, who for years has been excavating a major site just north of
>> the
>> Sea of Galilee which he identifies as Bethsaida, has also suggested that
>> the
>> "Ziddim Zer" (the Z here stands for Sade, as in Beth-saida and in Sidon)
>> mentioned in Josh 19:35 in the inheretance of Naphtali, is the Iron Age
>> form
>> of the same name, perhaps originally "Hacayyadim".
>>
>> Yigal Levin
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <JBarach at aol.com>
>> To: <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:39 AM
>> Subject: [b-hebrew] Bethsaida
>>
>>
>> >
>> > BHaverim --
>> >
>> > What does the name "Bethsaida" mean? "Beth," obviously, means
>> > "house."
>> > But
>> > what about the "Saida"? I'm not even sure what the Hebrew root word
>> here
>> > might be. One commentary I have says it means "House of Provisioning"
>> > (Austin
>> > Farrer) and another says "House of Fishermen" (John Donahue & Daniel
>> > Harrington) -- and all the rest that I have say nothing about the
>> meaning
>> > of the name
>> > at all.
>> >
>> > I'd be glad to hear what you think. (I ask this on the B-Hebrew list,
>> > even
>> > though "Bethsaida" appears only in the Greek, because it's obvious a
>> > Hebrew
>> > name. Hope this isn't a problem.)
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>> >
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