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Jul 18, 2020 · The word “wilderness” or “Desert” – “Midbar” (מִדְבָּר) in Hebrew – appears 272 times in the Bible (Old testament). The meaning of “midbar” in modern Hebrew is an arid area. A place where crops cannot grow. But in the Bible, it has two different meanings: Desert or desolate place.
Oct 26, 2020 · Because there are no vowels in Hebrew, the letters that spell it out are M-D-B-R. Coincidentally, this is also how you spell another Hebrew word, MEDABER – to speak. The wilderness of the Judean hills is where the Holy Spirit sent Jesus before the start of his public ministry.
- Esau’s Lineage
- What Did Anah find?
- Anah’S Cousin Heimam
- Lotan-Lot Connection
- A Positive Foil
- Oholibamah—The Levirate Marriage Tent?
After Jacob returns home to Hebron (ch. 35) and before the Joseph narrative begins (ch. 37), the Torah includes a long section dedicated to the detailed lineage of Esau (ch. 36). This is broken down into lists of his sons, lists of his clans, and a list of the Edomite kings who ruled before Israel had a king.In addition, this chapter includes a lis...
The list of Seir the Horite’s descendants, includes an opaque anecdote about Anah, the son of Zibeon (one of Seir’s sons): The word yemimis a hapax legomenon, namely it appears nowhere else in the Bible. Scholars have suggested several interpretations for it.
The interpretation I find most convincing is that of Naphtali Herz Tur-Sinai (1886–1973), in his Peshuto shel Mikra commentary (ad loc.),who noted that, if we ignore the Masoretic pointing, the same four-letter Hebrew word appears just two verses earlier as the name of one of the sons of Zibeon’s brother Lotan: If we apply the same vowels to the wo...
Heiman’s father’s name, Lotan, intertextually connects us to the story of Abraham and his nephew Lot—also described as his brother—who is taken captive by the four kings after they conquer Sodom and its neighboring cities. Abraham then gathers troops, chases down the army of the four kings, and rescues his nephew and his family (Gen 14:14–16). Thus...
This self-critical Israelite text does not shrink from comparing its own ancestors unfavorably with their neighbors and cousins, offering up these others as a model for how to form a supportive family and avoid conflict. As happened with Abraham and Lot, Esau leaves Jacob peaceably, avoiding the kind of conflict we see later with Joseph and his bro...
Pardo’s suggestion that Oholibamah was born of a levirate marriage was actually in response to Shadal’s original suggestion, which was meant to solve a different problem. One of Esau’s wives, Oholibamah, is introduced with the following unusual description: (Although Zibeon is described here as a Hivite instead of a Horite, this seems to be a refer...
Dec 23, 2018 · Dec 23, 2018 hebrewwordlessons. King: melek (Strong’s 4428) and Kingdom: malkuth (Strong’s 4438) Root: מֶלֶךְ. Sounds like: mel’eck and mal’koot. King (melek) is used to describe both earthly leaders and the Creator God. And Kingdom (malkuth) can be any earthly kingdom, as well as the divine Kingdom of God.
3 large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities: יִשְׂאוּ מִדְבָּר וְעָרָיו חֲצֵרִים תֵּשֵׁב קֵדָר let the wilderness and its cities lift up (their voice), the villages that Kedar doth inhabit Isaiah 42:11.
Jul 31, 2020 · A Refuge for a King. However, En Gedi’s most notable resident was David and his men when they were hiding from Saul (1 Samuel 23:29). “Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”
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The Hebrew word midbar, wilderness, has the same root as the word dabar/davar, meaning "word" or "thing." It has the same letters as medabber, "speaking." It is in the wilderness that the Israelites hear revelation, the word or speaking of God. Fundamental to Judaism is the belief that God cannot be seen.
