what's in a name?

lone-traveler · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: what's in a name?

I was looking at the names of the twelve princes of Ishmael.

Gen 25:12 ¶ Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Gen 25:13 And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Gen 25:16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Nebajoth: Nebaioth or Nebajoth = "heights"
1) a son of Ishmael
2) people descended from 1 called the Nabateans with their capital at Petra

Kedar: Kedar = "dark"

Abdeel: Adbeel = "chastened of God"
1) third son of Ishmael and grandson of Abraham

Mibsam: Mibsam = "sweet odour"
1) a son of Ishmael
2) a descendant of Simeon

Mishmah: Mishma = "a hearing"

Dumah: Dumah = "silence"
1) son of Ishmael and most probably the founder of the Ishmaelite tribe of Arabia
2) a town in the mountainous district of Judah, near Hebron
3) a mystical name of Edom indicating death and ruin

Massa: Massa = "burden"

Hadar: Hadar = "honour"
1) an Edomite king

Tema: Tema = "desert"

Jetur: Jetur = "enclosed"

1) a son of Ishmael whose descendants warred with Israel east of the Jordan
a) also called 'Ituraea'

Naphish: Naphish = "refreshment"

1) the next to last son of Ishmael
2) an Arabian tribe

Kedemah: Kedemah = "original"

1) the youngest son of Ishmael

and their Mother Hagar: Hagar = "flight"

1) Sarah's Egyptian slave girl, Abraham's concubine, Ishmael's mother

Ishmael: Ishmael = "God will hear"

flight, God will hear, heights, dark, chastened of God,
sweet odour, a hearing, silence, burden, honour, desert, enclosed, refreshment, original.

lone-traveler · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject:

I never realized that Abraham took another wife after Sarah had passed on...

Gen 25:1 ¶ Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.
Gen 25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

Keturah: Keturah = "incense"

Zimran: Zimran = "musician"

Jokshan: Jokshan = "snarer"

Medan: Medan = "contention"

Midian: Midian or Midianite = "strife"

Ishbak: Ishbak = "he releases"

Shuah: Shuah = "wealth"

incense, musician, snarer, contention, strife, he releases, wealth.

lone-traveler · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

Gen 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Gen 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Gen 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Gen 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

(Leah: Leah = "weary")

Reuben: Reuben = "behold a son"

Simeon: Simeon or Shimeon = "heard"

Levi: Levi = "joined to"

Judah: Judah = "praised"

Issachar: Issachar = "there is recompense"

Zebulun: Zebulun = "exalted"

(Rachael: Rachel = "ewe")

Joseph: Joseph = "Jehovah has added"

Benjamin: Benjamin = "son of the right hand"

(Bilhah: Bilhah = "troubled")

Dan: Dan = "a judge"

Naphtali: Naphtali = "wrestling"

(Zilpah: Zilpah = "a trickling")

Gad: Gad = "troop"

Asher: Asher = "happy"

atoz · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:31 am Post subject:

What's in every name is Love
and
what every name is a Love-name
when all letters & all sounds are first loved,
which is how & when all words & their oppositenemies are loved and so become Love-letters and Love-sounds and Love-words and Love-names.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
Romeo and Juliet, [II, 2]

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5]

In the Name of Love, God's Name and JC's name,
atoz