Presents
Pamphlet #7055
Britain's Hebrew Names
A most interesting coincidence is the Hebrew meaning
of the phonetic sounds of the names of the British people.
The House of Israel is the "covenant
people."
The Hebrew word for "covenant"
is (pronounced in current Hebrew) "brit".
After Gideon's death, Israel followed the false pagan
god Baal.
In Judges 8:83 and 9:4, the
word "covenant" is used as a proper name coupled with the name "Baal."
This is quoted in the English
text, Authorized Version, without being translated,
as "Baalberith," meaning (margin)
"idol of the covenant."
The word for "covenant man,"
or "covenant people," would therefore sound,
in English word order, "Brit-ish"
(the word ish means "man" in Hebrew,
and it is also an English suffix
on nouns and adjectives).
And so, is it mere coincidence
that the true covenant people today are called the "British"?
And they reside in the "British
Isles"!
To Abraham, God also said, "In
Isaac shall thy seed be called,"
and this name is repeated in
Romans 9:7 and He-brews 11:18.
In Amos 7:16 the Israelites
are called "the house of Isaac."
The name "Isaac" is the English
form of the Hebrew word more exactly transliterated Yishaq.
Note how different the Hebrew
spelling and pronunciation is from the English.
Even stable consonants have
dropped out, how much easier for the unstable,
semi-vowel y to drop, leaving
Shaq or Saac.
In fact ancient documents show another Semitic people,
the Assyrians,
had a habit of dropping the initial y in exactly this
way.
For instance, they referred to a King Ahab of Israel
as A-ha-ab-bu Sir-'i-la-a-a.
(See, for example, Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern
Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp.227-Si.)
They dropped the yi of Israel
(Yisra'el in Hebrew)
in the same way the first syllable
of Isaac would be dropped to form Saac.
Is it only coincidence that
"Saxons" sounds the same as "Saac's sons"-sons of Isaac?
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