Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

This make it more problematic. If hed is a shortened (or construct) form of 
hedad, it has nothing to do with thunder, and it's difficult to see the 
connection between "shouts of joy" and Hadad. On the othe hand, the Arabic, 
and more importanatly the Ugaritic cognates seem to mean "thunderous noise", 
which fits Hadad better. And if so, there is no connection between "hed" and 
"hedad".

And thanks for the article, Yitzhak. I'll have to read it more carefully. An 
article of mine, on theophoric toponyms with "Baal", is due to appear in the 
next Judea and Samaria Studies (in Hebrew). If you (or anyone else) want, I 
can email you a pre-copy.

Yigal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "hed" in Ezekiel 7:7


> On 12/7/06, Yigal Levin wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > The word "hed" appears only in Ezekiel 7:7 - the "hed" of the mountains. 
> > Most
> > English translations have "joyful shouting" or such like, probably 
> > assuming a
> > connection to "hedad" (which appears only in Isaiah).
> >
> > In modern Hebrew, this word is used for "echo" - which makes sense: the
> > "sound" of the mountains". However, is this just a modern Hebrew 
> > adaptation?
> > Or is it based on ANE cognates or ancient translation traditions? If the 
> > latter,
> > that is, the word did originally mean "echo", what is its etymology? Is 
> > it
> > onomatapoeic, based on the sound of echoing?.
>
> The word "Hed" is found in the Even Shoshan dictionary as follows: the 
> word
> itself is marked biblical and a little note is written "according to the
> interpretation of Ezekiel 7:7"  Next, the two definitions "echo" and 
> "response"
> are placed with the marking of "Modern Hebrew" (a little superscript Het). 
> So,
> this would mean that the word with the meaning "echo" is just Modern 
> Hebrew.
> HALOT gives cognates for Hed as Arabic ha:dd roraring of the sea, rumbling
> of the earth, ha:ddat thunder, and Ugaritic hd.  Also the theophoric name
> hadad is found in some Canaanite names as haddu such as Niqmahaddu of
> Ugarit, Ribhadda of Byblos, as I'm sure you know.  So on that basis the
> equation of Hed with Hedad is probably reasonable.  One article, not 
> related
> to anything but which came up during my search for Canaanite names with
> the haddu component is:
> The Onomastic Evidence for Bronze-Age West Semitic, by M. O'Connor
> http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;?a=o&d=5013788435
> no firewalls or anything :)
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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