Ten Tribes Studies (11 December, 2013, 8 Tevet, 5774)
Contents:
1. Haven and Ports
More on the double-meaning of words in Biblical Hebrew.
2. The English word "haven" derives from the Hebrew word "Hof"
3. New Comments to the Yair Davidiy, Hebrew Nations, YouTube Clips
(a) Amish Man Discovers Jewish Ancestry
(b) Blessings from Holland
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1. Haven and Ports
More on the double-meaning of words in Biblical Hebrew.
In
Brit-Am Now no. 2174
2. Question on the Multiplication of the Sons of Joseph "Like Fishes".
http://hebrewnations.com/features/5/2174.html#a2
we discussed the words "dga" meaning fish and yiDGu meaning increase and multiply.
We mentioned of homonyms meaning words that sound the same but have different meanings.
An example may be found in the Blessing to Zebulon,
Genesis 49:
13 Zebulun shall settle at the shores of the sea;
he shall be a haven for ships,
and his border shall be at Sidon.
In Hebrew the word for "shore" above is HOF and the word for haven is also HOF.
[They may also be pronounced something like "c-hof".]
There may be an etymological link between them. The root "cHF" connotes something like "cover, hide". The shore is often covered by the sea. A haven gives cover from the tempest.
Perhaps also the shore does serve as a haven for ships?
Radak (Kimchi) in "Safer Ha-Shorashim" derives both word from the one root meaning hide or cover:
# le-Hof Yamim [at the shores of the sea], le-Hof-Oniot [a haven for ships] (Genesis 49:13), the place where ships hide from winds is a port..#
The Radak goes on to suggest that the same word, hof meaning cover and hide, etc, is used for shore since sand on the sea-shore may be used to cover and bury things in.
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2. The English word "haven" derives from the Hebrew word "Hof"
In item no.1 above we examined the Hebrew HOF which may mean cover, hide, sea-shore, and haven or port.
Looking at the etymology of the English word "haven" we find:
haven (n.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=haven
Old English haefen "haven, port," from Old Norse haefn "haven, harbor" or directly from Proto-Germanic *hafno- (cf. Danish havn, Middle Low German havene, German Hafen...
haff (n.)
also haaf, Baltic lagoon, separated from open sea by a sandbar, German, from Middle Low German haf "sea," related to Old Norse, Swedish haf "the sea, especially "the high sea," Danish hav, Old Frisian hef, Old English haef "sea," perhaps literally "the rising one," and related to the root of heave.
We find that the original form was probably with an f [Haefen].
It may be derived from a word "haff" meaning sea. Alternately perhaps the word sea was derived from it?
If we were to assume that the original form was the Hebrew word "Hof" meaning hide, cover, haven, port, sea-shore, etc, it would fit in quite nicely.
The etymology of haff above is said to be perhaps from Old English haef meaning sea and this in turn to be related to the root of heave.
heave (v.)
Old English hebban "to lift, raise; lift up, exalt" (class VI strong verb; past tense hof, past participle hafen), from Proto-Germanic *hafjan (cf. Old Norse hefja, Dutch heffen, German heben, Gothic hafjan "to lift, raise"), from PIE *kap-yo-, from root *kap- "to grasp" (see capable).
We have another word in Hebrew related to Hof and this is HoFeN which means to take a handful of i.e. to grasp. See the connection?
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3. New Comments to the Yair Davidiy, Hebrew Nations, YouTube Clips
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(a) Amish Man Discovers Jewish Ancestry
dudeinbluejeans
Yair, I am stunned. I just found out that Jakob Schwar born in 1700 was listed in Hungary tax records as a Jew. He appears to possibly be the father or grandfather of my forefather Christian Schwarie. I also found out that there was a widow woman by the name of Annie Schwari who emigrated to the the USA in 1894 from Syria. At that time many Jews in Syria (who before had fled from Spain during the inquisition), began migrating to the USA. My mother's side is full of Jews., most notably Jakob Beiler. The widow Annie Schwari who emigrated from Syria is what blew me away. By the way, my people are Anabaptists better known as Amish/Mennonites, and there are no Amish/Mennonites in Syria.
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(b) Blessings from Holland
New comment on your video
Israelite Zebulonites in the Netherlands
Gerben Rutenfrans
Thank you Yair, i am from Holland and i do believe i am part of the ten tribes, i live in the ways of [the Almighty].