Re: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and otherlanguages.)

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:15:23 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> > People still do that today....using the Hebrew term for God,
> "Hashém",
> Which literally means "The Name", no?
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Yup...actually, some people (i, personally, make sure that i do this)
differentiate between the plain word "hasheim" (the name) [ha'Se(j)m] and
the semi-name "Hashém" (i dunno why i write it with a smitchik) [ha'SEm],
but it only works in certain accents.  This especially makes a difference
in the phrases _qidush hasheim_ and _hhilul hasheim_, "Sanctification of
the Name" and "Desecration of the Name", which if _hasheim_ was _Hashém_,
it wouldn't make any sense, theologically.

> Plus which, Jesus was quoting scripture (one of the psalms) when he
> cried out Eli, eli, lema sabachtani.
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_Eli, Eli, lama `azavtani_ i think i've seen somewhere in the Psalms...

> > Although in Hebrew there's a double - both the words _el_ and
> _eloah_.
>
> Any difference in meaning?  Would the _eloah_ form have given _eloi_?
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ELOAH = general term for "deity".
EL = divine Name, and general term for "deity", "mighty person", and
"power".*

"My _eloah_" would be _elohi_, with the H intact.


* This helped me out with a name that i would iy"H love to give a future
daughter of mine.  On ElendorMUSH there's a player with the (female)
character name Elialhenel, which i always interpreted Hebraicly as
_eili`alhheineil_, which looks like "my.god-on-grace-god", but makes
sense if the initial _eil_ is understood as "power", making the entire
name mean "my.power-on-grace-God", or in decondensed form, "my power is
dependent on the kindess of God"  The only problem is that _-el_ maybe a
perfectly fine Elvish feminine ending, but in Hebrew it's usually male
names that end in _-eil_....female versions of -eil names i've seen
commonly have an _-a_ stuck on the end, like _dani'eila_.

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