[b-hebrew] IMMER family in NEHEMIE 7 40

Dgahler782 at aol.com Dgahler782 at aol.com
Sat May 2 13:45:11 EDT 2009


My name is Vincent IMMER, not jewish from swiss/french origin and living in 
 Israel for 10 years now. I am wondering what is the real origin of my 
familly  name.
I thought it comes from german, IMMER, which means ALLWAYS.
I just  discovered that this familly name, IMMER or IMME^R, (or IMER 
sometimes) in  english, appears in the Bible related to Cohen people, priest in 
exil in  Babylon.
I wondered why the hebrew name was translated in latin with two  m?
And also I wondered what is the root of this word or its meaning, I read  
on this list the it means CONSERVED, or GUARDED (which is in this case not so 
 far from the meaning ALLWAYS by the way....).
By the way in searching other  mentions of this word in the bible I found 
it 9 times, it sounds sometimes as a  location more than a familly name like 
"the people from the location immer",  might it be possible too?
Thank you for you help
Vincent IMMER
 
Dear Vincent:

Being of Swiss origin, perhaps IMMER is a corruption of IMKER, which  means 
beekeeper.
 
Doris Gahler
 
 
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