Answers to a Critic of the "Brit-Am" Etymology
Isaac M. said:
# ... there is no way that Brit-Am can mean a covenant with a nation. "Briton" is of Celtic origin (Amer. Heritage Dict.) . There is no esoteric hint of a covenant with the people who murdered the Picts, stole their land, solified a United Kingdom by violence, colonized much of the world in the 19th C, expelled their Jews between Blood Libel massacres, and, in WWII, hampered the Biblical return to Zion, feeding many victims to Nazi and Arab killers. The exceptions were wonderful, but, sadly, most British Israelites were hateful followers of Replacement Theology.
Historically, the Scandinavians are far better, but no Jewish DNA has been found. #Gentiles are the fortunate ones, enjoying the unconditional love of our Creator. The tiny tribe chosen for responsibility has had to endure fires of Inquisition and smoke of crematoria that scared even Abraham.
Blessings from Jerusalem, Isaac #
Brit-Am Reply:
Isaiah 42:6 I THE LORD HAVE CALLED THEE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WILL HOLD THINE HAND, AND WILL KEEP THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE [Hebrew: Brit-Am], FOR A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES;"
Isaiah 49:8 THUS SAITH THE LORD, IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME HAVE I HEARD THEE, AND IN A DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I HELPED THEE: AND I WILL PRESERVE THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE [Hebrew: "Brit-Am"],
TO ESTABLISH THE EARTH [Hebrew: Aretz, also connotes "country" ] TO CAUSE TO INHERIT THE DESOLATE HERITAGES.
See:
A Brit-Am. The Ten Tribes were to become a Confederation (Commonwealth) of Peoples.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/geo/geobrit-am.html
Let us break the subject down into basic elements:
The word "Brit-Am" appears twice in Scripture in the Hebrew text.
According to the context it is referring to Israel and especially to the Lost Ten Tribes in their placers of exile.
A Midrash (repeated at least eight times in early Talmudic and Midrashic sources) speaks of Isaiah 49:6 as referring to the Lost Ten Tribes and their places of exile and links Isaiah 49:21 to this phenomenon and the reaction of Judah when Judah begins to realize who the present day Lost Ten Tribes are.
We therefore have the following:
1. Brit-Am refers to the Lost Ten Tribes in their places of exile.
2. It was accepted in Scripture as well as by other peoples (e.g. the Ancient Greeks and Romans) that the sound of names might have significance according to their sounds apart from their original meaning.
"Babylon" for instance in Hebrew is BABEL. This in Hebrew connotes "confusion," colloquial "bilbel," Scripture "balal."
The researchers however state that Babylon received its name form bav-il or bav-ilim which, in the Akkadian language of the time, might have meant 'Gate of God' or 'Gate of the Gods.'
The Bible however tells us that in the eyes of the Almighty the city of Babylon received its name because it was the place where the languages were confused, or mixed together, from the Hebrew "balel," i.e. mix-together.
Genesis (NKJV) 11:
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, 'Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called BABEL, because there the LORD confused [Hebrew: "balel"] the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
We find a similar usage several times in the Bible,
See:
#7. The Name for the Angles of England, its Hebrew Meaning, and the Biblical Significance of Names
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/secular/extracts30.html#a7
Extract:
... the city Beer Sheva.
In Hebrew "Beer" means "well" and Sheva can mean either "oath" (swear) or "seven."
In fact in English the word "seven" is derived from one optional dialectical pronunciation of the Hebrew "sheva" (seven) which could be sounded as "seven".
So too, the English word "swear" is also derived from the Hebrew "sheva" meaning taking an oath or swearing.
Abraham [Genesis 21:30] gave the King of the Philistines, Abimelech, seven ewe lambs
as a token of acknowledgement by Abimelech that the well belonged to Abraham who had dug it.
http://britam.org/Genesis/Gen18to22VaYera.html
[Genesis 21:31] WHEREFORE HE CALLED THAT PLACE BEERSHEBA; BECAUSE THERE THEY SWARE BOTH OF THEM.
BEERSHEBA: i.e. Beer Sheva, The well (Beer) of Seven ("Sheba" or "seva"). ...it may be that in this as in similar cases that the name of the place was already "Beer-Sheba" but Scripture is saying that the name presages the events that were destined to take place there.
This is a play on words: He set aside seven ewe lambs because they swore in that place. In Hebrew seven is sheva and swear is shevuah. The two words derive from the same root and sound similar. This happens frequently in Scripture: The two different meanings of one word-root are used together and a connection is noticed or created between them.
[Genesis 26:32] AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME DAY, THAT ISAAC'S SERVANTS CAME, AND TOLD HIM CONCERNING THE WELL WHICH THEY HAD DIGGED, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE FOUND WATER.
[Genesis 26:33] AND HE CALLED IT SHEBAH: THEREFORE THE NAME OF THE CITY IS BEER SHEBA [Hebrew: Sheva i.e. Beer Sheva] UNTO THIS DAY.
The word transliterated here as Shebah in Hebrew is pronounced as Shevah.
The name of the city was Beer Sheva beforehand.
The Commentators say that this was the seventh well Isaac had dug in the area.
Beer Sheva would therefore mean the seventh well.
Previously Abraham (Genesis 21:31) had been in the region and he had given the place the name Beer Sheba due to the giving of seven (Hebrew: Sheva) ewe lambs and the swearing of an oath (Hebrew: Sheva) that had taken place in that region.
In both cases an existing name seems to have been re-interpreted to fit the events that took place in the location of that name.
So in light of the above we are quite within our rights to suggest a connection between the name Brit-Am and Britain especially since Britain was sometimes written as 'Britammia."
This received additional significance when it is realized that the National Nicknames of related peoples all have Biblical significance.
Yank is short for Yaacov.
Jock for Scotsman is also from Yaacov.
Angle is another form for Aegel meaning "bull-calf" a nick-name of Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:18).
Hiber (the name the Celts used for themselves) is another form for Hebrew.
America derives from "Ha-Machiri" the people of Machir grandson of Manasseh.
Taffy meaning "Welshman" is a form of the name David.
And so on.
You also said:
# There is no esoteric hint of a covenant with the people who murdered the Picts, stole their land, solified a United Kingdom by violence, colonized much of the world in the 19th C, expelled their Jews between Blood Libel massacres, and, in WWII, hampered the Biblical return to Zion, feeding many victims to Nazi and Arab killers. The exceptions were wonderful, but, sadly, most British Israelites were hateful followers of Replacement Theology.
Historically, the Scandinavians are far better, but no Jewish DNA has been found. #
Here this is your private take on history. It is incorrect. Read some of our articles, e.g. See:
Master Plan. An Outline
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/masterplan.html
You also said:
# most British Israelites were hateful followers of Replacement Theology. #
This is incorrect as well BUT some of the BIs were that way.
Others, such as Orde Wingate, are now regarded as heroes in the modern State of Israel.
See Also:
Christian Identity
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/quora/tentribes/ci.html
Brit-Am is NOT BI!
You yourself are a great champion of colored peoples but I would not (yet) put you in the same category as Genghis Khan or Idi Amin.