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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Gary Hedrick <garyh AT cjfm.org>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] UK Report: Archaeological Find Confirms Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:20:32 -0400

B-Listim

It is certainly satisfying to find outside references to biblical names and events, yet Nabu-sharrussu-ukin appears to me to contain common generic components.
1. NABU is from the Hebrew root NB, 'noble, substantial', with the immediately following personal pronoun U, corresponding to the Hebrew HU. The A sound is just a puff of air between the two consonants. If this personal pronoun is in reference to the man himself, then its function is to turn NAB into 'he is a NAB'. The root NB itself is the combination of the two fundamental concepts AN-NA and AB-BA, corresponding to the English existence markers 'in-on' and 'be-of'.
The root NB spawned the names NOB, [see Isaiah 10:32], NBO, or HAR NBO, [see Isaiah 46:1 and Deuteronomy 32:49], NABOT, [see 1 Kings 21:2], NBAYOT, [see Genesis 25:13], and possibly with the addition of L for loftiness, also NABAL, [see 1 Kings 25:3].
Also derived from this root are the words T-NUB-AH, 'growth, yield, produce, issue of the earth', NIB, 'issue of the mouth', [see Isaiah 57:19], (ANAB, 'grape'---related to (ANAP, branch'---(ANAW, 'upright, meek?', [see Numbers 12:3], and of course NABIY), 'prophet', which I think is but a variant of NASIY), 'elevated one'.
2. SARRUSSU I find enigmatic [why a double R and a double S?]. It may be considered as SARU-USU, 'a mighty prince', or SAR-RUSSU 'a head prince' with RUSSU, 'head', or SA-RUSU, 'up ahead', [recall the hebrew expression NASA) RO)$], or it may be just one word derived from the root SRS including the two U = HU personal pronouns. In any event it contains the letter R, which in Hebrew is an indicator of dispersion and aggregation. The root SRS assumed the connotation of 'eunuch' or 'castrated man', since some ancient functionaries where apparently so undone to render them docile and impotent, but it needs no be so. There is no reason to assume that the SARIYS of Genesis 37:36 was castrated. The root SRS may be just an extension of SR, corresponding to the Aramaic root ZRZ, 'geared, agile, nimble, alert, driven, hovering around the king, running to do his bidding'.
3. UKIN may mean many things, but may be it is not UKIN but rather SUKIN, for the Hebrew SOKEN?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Gary Hedrick wrote:

Listers, here’s an interesting story from today’s issue of the
Daily Telegraph in the UK. It suggests that a recent archaeological
discovery from 2,500 years ago may substantiate the existence of a minor
character mentioned in the Hebrew text of Jeremiah 39. But the spelling of
the name in the recently-discovered inscription is slightly different from
the name as it appears in the MT. Interesting report, nonetheless. Regards
to all.



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Gary Hedrick

San Antonio, Texas USA




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