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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Befuddled by NGD
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:32:58 -0400

Karl,

I read with interest your argument that $EM, 'name' is connected to $AM, 'there, at that location', by the fact that a person is located [or placed] by his name. I thought of extending this idea. So:
1. $EM, 'name', is so called because an item is located by it.
2. $UM, 'Garlic' is so called because it is located in the ground.
3. )A$EM, 'guilty' is so called because he is located in prison.
4. $AMA(, 'heard' is so called since the sound source can be located by hearing.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:22 AM, K Randolph wrote:

John:

"Opposite" or "against"? Could you be more specific?

Does this context not picture two people working together, while
facing each other? Hence "in front of" each other?

Karl W. Randolph.

On 7/26/07, Brak <Brak AT neo.rr.com> wrote:

So from what I get from all this is that the word NGD is like the word $M
Just as $M has two distict meanings dependent on how it is used ("there"
and "name") so does NGD

Even these words can have a connection, as one 'places' a person by
his name, both being from the same root as #YM to place.

I now have another question regarding this word:

When it is first used in Genesis in the context of Eve I was always taught
that it meant "opposite" or "against".
I have never heard that it meant "in front of".
So could someone please explain how the idea of "in front of" fits in that
passage?

By the way, I appreciate all the input received thus far!


B"H
John Steven

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you
behave."
-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.


K Randolph wrote:
John:

I do not list "against" or "opposite" as possible meanings for NGD as
those have connotations that go beyond the meaning of the Hebrew word
(a translator may use those terms when he thinks it will make for a
smoother English rendition, but a strict literal meaning is "before,
in front of").

Karl W. Randolph.
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