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[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Isaac;

You could be correct.

I try to follow the most visible route however, when dissecting names.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> It is also an interesting possibility: YERU$-$ALEM. I think, though, that
> the fraction YERU- is עיר city, as in IR HAMAYIM mentioned in 2 Sam.
> 12:27. YERU$ALAYIM held great attraction to both the ancient Canaanites and
> ancient Hebrews through the twin facts that it is situated high in the
> mountains, and was therefore defensible against the well armed hordes of the
> plain, yet had plenty of water from the GIYXON and the $IYLOAX, and also
> from collected rain water (average rain fall: 500 mm/year). Some think that
> $ALEM was another name for 'sun' (E$-AL-EM?), and that king $LOMOH was the
> roi soleil of ancient Israel.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>  perhaps,
>
> but if so contracted, why not strong's 3425 + 8003?
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> It just crossed my mind that the name is possibly a compact form of
>> IR-HU)-$E-AL-MAYIM, 'the city sitting upon water'.
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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