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  • From: "Yodan" <yodan AT yodanco.com>
  • To: "'K Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, 'kenneth greifer' <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Caleb
  • Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:27:18 -0700

Maybe Hebrew speakers (like myself) are influenced by modern (spoken?)
Hebrew, where AKHBAR = mouse, HULDA = rat?



Rivka Sherman-Gold

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From: K Randolph [mailto:kwrandolph AT gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:56 PM
To: yodan AT yodanco.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org; kenneth greifer
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Caleb



Rivka, and others:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Yodan <yodan AT yodanco.com> wrote:

Being a woman whose first name is Biblical, I'm especially interested in
Biblical women and have never been too happy with the name Hulda = rat.

Where do you get the idea that Hulda means rat?



We find in 1 Samuel that the word for rat is עכבר in reference to an
apparent outbreak of bubonic plague.



The Biblical Hebrew dictionaries I bought indicate that חלד is a mole.



So I am puzzled.




The word Holed = rat appears only once (Lev 11:29).



However, the word Heled = world or lifetime appears 5 times (e.g. Psalms
42:20).



So, perhaps the names Hulda and Heled are related to Heled = world or
lifetime.

I suspect that this is more accurate.



Rivka Sherman-Gold

Yodan Publishing

Karl W. Randolph.





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