Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

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.
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> 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.

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> The word Holed = rat appears only once (Lev 11:29).
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> However, the word Heled = world or lifetime appears 5 times (e.g. Psalms
> 42:20).
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> So, perhaps the names Hulda and Heled are related to Heled = world or
> lifetime.
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> I suspect that this is more accurate.

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> Rivka Sherman-Gold
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> Yodan Publishing
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> Karl W. Randolph.