Hebrew Etymology of English Words
HEBREW AND ENGLISH
Etymology Studies
"LORD"
ADONIS is from the Hebrew Adon meaning Lord or Ruler. Exodus 23:17 says:
Exo 23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the
LORD GOD.
Adon with the Hebrew suffix AI (meaning 'MY') added is ADONAI, ("MY
LORD") which is the most common name of God in the Hebrew text of
the Bible.
The Norse God Odin is derived from the Hebrew word, Adon, as is the Tuetonic
God, WODEN, from which we get our day of the week, Wednesday.
Odin was the Norse leader to led the Caucasian tribes out of Asia and
into Scandinavia in ancient times. In ancient Egypt, Biblical Joseph,
father of Ephraim and Manasseh, was the ADON, or ruler, olver all the
land of Egypt. Genesis 45:9 says,
Gen 45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout
all the land of Egypt.
Gen 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
thy son Joseph, God hath made me LORD of all Egypt: come down unto me,
tarry not:
Another variation of this is the word, ADAM, meaning man or ruddy, was
the earth's lord and master, and was to take dominion over all the earth.
How about another related word: MADONNA, from the Latin mea (my) and
donna (lady); or "MY LADY." The title, lady is the feminine
of Lord (as in Lords and Ladies). The pagan Romans worshipped a female
goddess called Mea Domina, or the Mother Ruler, which became corrupted
into the mother of Jesus after Christianity came to Rome.
MARKET
The Hebrew-Phoenicians were great traders throughout the known world,
and we see that in our word market even today. Market comes from the
Latin word MERCARI, meaning to trade, which in turn came from the Hebrew-Phoenician
word,. MIKHER, meaning to pay a price, as seen in II Samuel 24:24:
2 Sam 24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy
it of thee at a PRICE: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the
LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor
and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
MOCHAR (MAH-KHAR means a merchant in Genesis 37:36, speaking of Joseph
in Egypt:
Gen 37:36 And the Midianites SOLD him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
From this original Hebrew word we have our modern words Commerce, market,
mart, mercantile, mercenary, merchandise, mercer, merchant, mercury,
and mercy.
AMEN
The Hebrew word, AMEN, (meaning so be it, it is true and certain) is
the root of our word, Amenable, (meaning willing to believe and submit,
agreable).
MONEY
The word Money comes from the Hebrew word, Mone (Moan-Eh), meaning a
weight or coin. Ezekiel 45:12 says:
Ezek 45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five
and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your MANEH.
Related words, Mana, means to count or number in II Kings 12:11,
2 Ki 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them
that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and
they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the
house of the LORD,
MINA means to number as in:
Dan 5:25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN.
Dan 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered
thy kingdom, and finished it.
MAMON is money, from a related Aramaic word, mamona meaning riches.
Etymologist Ernest Klein says that the latin word moneta meaning mint
and money is conjectured to be from Phoenician Hebrew origin.
MYSTERY
The word mystery is "the secret worship of a deity or a secret thing."
The Hebrew word, MESTAR is a secret place:
Jer 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places
for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.
Related Hebrew words are bimestar meaning secretly in Psalm 10:9, and
misootar is secret in Proverbs 27:5. Yet another related word is Nistaros:
Deu 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that
we may do all the words of this law.
In pre-Christian Greece and Italy, they worshipped Astarte, which is
linked to the pagan Phoenician and Syrian Ashtoreth, which in turn was
adopted from ancient Babylon and Assyrian Ishtar; all were a magical
mystery religion. The word mystic is also related.
BOTANY
Botany comes from the Greek word botane, meaning a plant or herb, but
possibly even earlier from the Hebrew Nabhat, meaning a sprout; the
Hebrew boten are nuts in Genesis 43:11, and Nebh(eg) is a fungus. The
Semitic Arabic word batatis is the root of potato.
EUROPE
The dictionaries aren't sure what Europe means, but in ancient Greek
mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was carried off to the
West. In Hebrew, the word, West, is (Ma)Urobh, as in Psalm 103:12. The
root of this Hebrew word is EREV, meaning EVENING, and west is the direction
of the setting sun of the evening-time. This word appears in Genesis
1:5. In fact, ancient Assyrian monuments speak of the land of EREB, meaning "Setting
Sun Land." Likewise, ASU (ASHU) was Assyrian lingo for "land
of the rising sun," and of course, the sun rises in the EAST. So
we see where we got the modern terms.
EAST AND WEST
Speaking of evening, the Hebrew word for that is (HEY)-EVE, meaning to
darken or grow cloudy. (YA)EV in Lamentations 2:1 means "covered
with a cloud."
