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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:38:40 -0700 (PDT)

   Yigal,

   
   Obviously there are quite a few hapax legomena
in the HB.

   Precisely because the root is not found
elsewhere in the HB, one reaches by way of
elimination at the suggested 'heal' from Aramaic.

   

   Looking at it further, it could be an abbreviation
from a longer  name such as *ASAEL ( with a Samekh,
not Sin ). It would the precise equivalent of the
attested RefaeL in meaning.

   And yes, the root could be ASA or ASY in Aram.

    Nothing I say here is written in stone, but
rather in ephemeral marks, almost like the biblical
'ruchut refaim'.

   Uri Hurwitz





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



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






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  • [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?, Uri Hurwitz, 08/15/2012

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