Re: Mitzrayim (was: New To List)

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:17:53 +0200 Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
writes:
>     And |Mizrahim| means "Easterners",  from the Hebrew |mizrax|,
> or "east". Ultimately from the root z-r-x, meaning "red"  (and from
> that, "glowing").
> Dan Sulani
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Wow, i never knew ZRHh has anything to do with "red"... what words based
on the root have that meaning?  I always thought the basic meaning was
"shine".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Send [that god] to me that he might be my husband,
  That he might lodge with me...
  If [you don't] send t[hat] god,
  According [to the ordinances of Irkall]a and the great underworld,
  I shall send up the dead that they might devour the living,
  I shall make the dead more numerous than the living."
     ~ ereshkigal, sumero-akkadian goddess of the netherworld,
       'myth of nergal and ereshkigal'

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