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Another adjective, found 6 times in biblical poetry, is
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It appears to be a
variant spelling of
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One appearance is in Ezek. 16:22: “… When thou wast naked
and bare.…”
C. Verb.
(
, 6168), “to pour out, make bare, destroy, spread oneself out.” This verb,
which appears 14 times in biblical Hebrew, has cognates in Akkadian, Phoenician,
Egyptian, and Syriac. The word means “to pour out” in Isa. 32:15: " Until the spirit be
poured upon us from on high.…” The verb implies “to make bare” in Lev. 20:19.
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is used in the sense of “to destroy” in Isa. 3:17: “Therefore the Lord will smite with a
scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their
secret parts.” In Ps. 37:35 the word means “to spread oneself out.”
NAME
( , 8034), “name; reputation; memory; renown.” Cognates of this word
appear in Akkadian, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, and Arabic. This word appears about
864 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew. It is not always true that an individual’s
“name” reveals his essence. Names using foreign loan words and ancient words were
probably often not understood. Of course, names such as “dog” (Caleb) and “bee”
(Deborah) were not indicative of the persons who bore them. Perhaps some names
indicated a single decisive characteristic of their bearer. In other cases, a “name” recalls
an event or mood which the parent(s) experienced at or shortly before the child’s birth
and/or naming. Other names make a statement about an individual. This sense of a name
as an identification appears in Gen. 2:19 (an early occurrence of this word): “… And
whatsoever Adam called every living creaturethat was the name thereof.” On the other
handthe names by which God revealed Himself (
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something of His person and work.
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can be a synonym for “reputation” or “fame”: “Go to, let us build us a city and
a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name; lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth” (Gen. 11:4). To “give a name for one”
is to make him famous: “And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like
Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make a name, and to do
for you great things and terrible, for thy land …” (2 Sam. 7:23). If a name goes forth for
one, his “reputation” of fame is made known: “And thy renown went forth among the
heathen for thy beauty …” (Ezek. 16:14). Fame may include power: “And he lifted up his
spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three” (2 Sam.
23:18). This sense, “men of reputation,” appears in Gen. 6:4: “… mighty men which were
of old, men of renown.”
This word is sometimes a synonym for “memory” or “reputation” (that which
remains): “… And so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my
husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth” (2 Sam. 14:7). In this respect
“name” may include property, or an inheritance: “Why should the name of our father be
done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a
possession among the brethren of our father” (Num. 27:4).