Biblical Hebrew Forum

["M. Brody" <mbrody AT earthling.net>]

Thank you Walter Mattfeld for your letter 0n 17:30 24/03/99 +0100. You wrote:
>Perhaps someone can explain why Hebron is rendered as el-Khalil on later
maps while the 
>Palestine Exploration Fund Map of 1878 (sheet xxi, London) renders it as
el-Khulil.  How 
>did "u" come to be later rendered as "a" ? Are both renderings correct or
is the 1878 
>rendering a mistake ? Thanks,

"el-Khalil"- is a fair transliteration of the Arabic appelation for the
Patriarch Avraham [the friend/the loved one], and hence for  the city he
purchased: Hevron.
Or the PEF had a different transliteration system, or its a mistake.

Menachem
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