Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Cohen, Izzy" <Izzy_Cohen AT bmc.com>]

"Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu> wrote:

> ... The term "angel" is a translation of mal'ach, 
> which just means messenger. Angel is from the Greek 
> angelos which also means messenger. High gods used 
> lower level gods as messengers, you can see that all 
> through the Ugaritic tales.

Compare Hermes
an ancient Greek god, the herald and messenger of the 
other gods, associated with commerce, invention, and 
cunning: identified by the Romans with Mercury.

and the REVERSAL of kHeRMes

MeRCury
4. (cap.) the Roman god of commerce, thievery, 
   eloquence, and science, and messenger to the 
   other gods: identified with the Greek god Hermes.

Compare MeRCury with Hebrew mem-lamed-aleph-khaf 
        MaL?aKH = angel.

> There are lots of gods in the OT, the Hebrews were 
> commanded not to worship any but YHWH. The gods 
> divided the nations of the world, ...

Hermes took Asia minor. He was a Phoenician god 
living atop Mt. Hermon before he moved to Mt. Olympus.
His navel (< Sanskrit nabhila) is REVERSED at LeBaNon.
His name still appears near his heel between Oman
and Iran/Persia: the Strait of HoRMuz. King HiRaM 
(who made an agreement with King Soloman) probably
claimed descent from HeRMes.

So, we see (superstitious) REVERSAL as an analog
of non-utterance for names/words one should not
pronounce.

> and YHWH took the sons of Jacob as his inheritance.
> Liz

Substitute a velar G/K for the yod, DH for the heh,
F for the vav, and DH for the heh to produce 
GoTT/KaTH + FaTH[er], that is, the father-G-d
or creator. If so, Catholic = god-like or godly. 
Cathedral < "god" + XeDeR = room, not < chair.

Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote (on the MotherTongue list):
> ... Latin Jupiter [yu-piter] is equivalent to Greek 
> Zeus-Pater [zus-pater], or "God the Father", whatever 
> language you wish to pronounce it in.

"Sesamo m." <sesamox AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is it true that the etymology of the Bible for the 
> name Moses is wrong?

Treating shin as T and heh as DH, MoSHeH = M-ToTH,
that is, "from Thoth". Very appropriate, if given 
by an Egyptian princess (adoptive mother).

Thoth (thohth, toht)  n. 
the ancient Egyptian god of learning and magic, 
represented as a man with the head of an ibis or 
a baboon and considered as the scribe of the gods.

But, consider the Egyptian equivalent of 
mem-tzadi-aleph = to find, hence "foundling". 
But I doubt the princess would have named him so.

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