Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:55 PM, James Christian
<jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> erm. Isn't Genesis full of characters with names fitting what they did or
> would do? Don't names even get changed as they become famous for something
> else?
>
> Abram becomes Abraham.
> Sarai becomes Sarah
> Jacob becomes Israel
>
> Only three individuals, and you listed all of them. But then they may seem
like a majority, as the majority of the book of Genesis dealt with them,
either directly or indirectly. Nobody else in Genesis had that name change,
and off the top of my head I can’t remember anyone else either.

>
> James Christian
>

Karl W. Randolph.