Biblical Hebrew Forum

["G. Zack" <atdgz AT hotmail.com>]

Just a small personal anecdote...

I named my son Samuel but insisted on this version as being also the Hebrew 
name, exactly as such,  rather than regarding it as the English rendition of 
the Hebrew Shmuel... In other words, I indicated to his teachers that his 
name, in Hebrew, is spelled with a Sin, and over here, in Canada his Hebrew 
name at a naming ceremony was spelled as Samyoel.

All while having in mind a variant of Ygal's musing with the "Sin" option  
interpretation, namely, in my Son's case,  "Placed Yo (Yahweh) [to be his] 
God (El)". Sam-Yo-El...

Bearing in mind the two parallel traditions of naming god in ancient Israel, 
namely El (most likely more so in the north)  alongside Yahweh (represented 
by Yo--most likely more popular in the south, in Judea), I thought the 
somewhat paradoxical equation of both was curious enough for me to choose it 
as my son's name...

Just a personal idiosyncrasy and  a slightly pertinent anecdote I thought 
could be of interest to someone here and brought up by Ygal's comment below...

Now back to your discussion, guys...

Gad Zack
Canada

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:25:36 +0200
> From: leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Theophoric Names
> 
> Dear Petr,
> 
> Shoshanna answered for me. 
> 
> BTW, I could also imagine an original Samo-El, with a sin, meaning "placed
> by God". But it's probably shin.
> 
> Yigal Levin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Theophoric Names
> 
> Shemo (his name)  El (is G-d)
> 
> Shoshanna Walker
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Yigal,
> 
> where do you see a pronoun "his" in the word "samuel"?
> 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
> 
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