drmlanc Wrote:Craig did you translate those names yourself, or did you just rip them off from Chuck Missler? Amazingly, someone was trying to tell me that that is bs as that is not really what it means in Hebrew...
Don't know, I never claimed it be an original insight of mine. But, using a combination of my own <i>The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible</i> and the The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.studylight.org">http://www.studylight.org</a><!-- m -->:
120 Adam "man"
8351 set n.pr.m same as 8352: Seth, Sheth, "determined, granted"
582 enos, n.m, man, humankind, mortal, with an emphasis on frailty
583 'enos n.pr.m Enosh, "[mortal] man"
7018 qenan, n.r.m. Kenan, "possession"
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4111 mahlal'el, n.pr.m. Mahalel, "praise of God [El]"
3382 yered, n.pr.m. Jered or Jared, "descent"
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2585 Enoch; Hanoch, "initiated; follower"
4968 Methuselah "man of the dart"
3929 Lamech - "powerful"
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5146 noah, n.pr.m. Noah, "rest, comfort"
Now "praise of God" can be turned around as "God of praise", so what I came up with myself:
[Originally immortal] man/humanity granted mortal man/humanity [as] a possession, the God of praise's descent initiated the man of the dart [war?] [into] a powerful rest/comfort.
And perhaps a work like TWOT would provide an alternative entry for Methuselah. *Shrug*
Shlama, Craig