Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

Uri,

What is the evidence that the name Asa is derived from the same root as the
Aramaic ASA? (BTW, are you sure that in Aramaic the root is ASA and not
ASY?)

Why would it be? The root ASA "health" is not attested in Hebrew from any
period.

Yigal Levin

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Goranson
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Essenes etymology, was RE: Etymology of Nazarene or
Nazareth ?

The Book of Yosippon (mistakenly) replaced Josephus' Essenes with Hebrew
(not Aramaic) Hasidim. For the start of Aramaic guesses, see Azariah dei
Rossi, Me'or Enayin (Mantua, 1573-1575).

Stephen Goranson
www.duke.edu/~goranson
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Subject: [b-hebrew]  Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?

  Stephen, According to the latest edition of Even Shoshan Heb.-Heb.
dictionary, the first Hebrew occurrence is in the Book of Yosippon, a
chronicle of Jewish history to the time Titus. Written between eighth and
tenth centuries CE.

  In the HB the root may be recognized in the name  ASA ( Aleph Samekh
Aleph).

   Uri Hurwitz




Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so
spelled earlier than modern times?

Stephen




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