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Sep 26, 2018 · The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate’, which had the slang meaning to copulate. Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, said that the German word ...
Unfortunately, some of the etymologies that are given here are nonsensical, since as The F-Word clearly notes, the word fuck itself was not attested until the end of the 15 th century. It clearly came into its own as a vulgar word in the 16 th and 17 th centuries, replacing the word swife .
Dec 6, 2023 · It’s all part of the weird and mysterious history of this infamous four-letter word. Where did the F-word come from? Etymologists aren’t entirely sure where the word originated.
Feb 18, 2023 · Jamie Grill via Getty Images. I coined the term “ cisgender ” in 1994. Nearly three decades later, the word has had ramifications I never dreamed of. It began innocently enough. I was in graduate school and writing a paper on the health of trans adolescents.
- YHWH as Being
- Moses’ Midianite Backstory
- Midian and The Qurayyah Culture of North Arabia
- An Arabian Tribe
- The Spice Trade
- The Shaswe-Land YHWA
- YHWH Comes from The Edomite South
- The Jealous God
- Monolatry
- Iconoclasm
In contrast, God’s earlier revelation at the burning bush, in which Moses is introduced to this special name for the first time,explains or at least hints at its meaning: When Moses asks God his name, God first answers by saying “I am what I am” and even follows this up with “tell them Ehyeh (I-Am) sent you.” The word ehyeh (“I am”) sounds very muc...
The first clue to understanding the name comes from the context of the story of the burning bush in the book of Exodus. After Moses kills an Egyptian and flees from Pharaoh (2:12-15), he ends up in Midian, where he meets the priest of Midian, Reuel (or Jethro), and marries his daughter, Zipporah (2:15-22). While shepherding his father-in-law’s floc...
Assuming the area described by Ptolemy as Midiana is the same area as biblical Midian, an assumption that can be supported by the biblical connection between Midian and Ishmael (see below), we can know quite a bit about its material culture in the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages (13th–12th cent.B.C.E.). A group of semi-nomads, who produced a very d...
The Midianites were a Proto-Arabian tribe;their home base was in Arabia and they are related to Ishmaelites. The book of Judges states this explicitly in the story of Gideon, who makes the following request of the Israelites after defeating the Midianites: We see evidence of the connection between Midianites and Ishmaelites as well when it comes to...
During the Iron Age and afterwards, the Midianites, as an Arabian tribe, were part of the spice trade. They would travel from Arabia and pass through Israel on their way to the Mediterranean coast and/or Egypt. This is reflected in the biblical story of Joseph, which describes Midianite and Ishmaelite traders heading to Egypt with spices and slaves...
Based on Egyptian records dating to the 14th centuryB.C.E., we know that the Midianites were not the only ethnic groups living this these areas.In the geographical list in Amunhotep III’s Soleb Nubian temple, the people of the Aravah and the southern Transjordan are called Shaswe (or Shasu), a generic term meaning something like “nomadic tribes.” T...
Biblical evidence suggests that YHWH comes from the southeast, either from the hills of Edom or even further south in Midian or beyond. This is particularly clear in three very ancient biblical poems:
In 1956, Shelomo Dov Goitein (1900-1985), a scholar of both Jewish and Arabic studies, suggested that the name derives from the Arabic root h.w.y (هوى), and the word hawaya (هوايا), which means “love, affection, passion, desire.”He connected this suggestion with the passage in Exodus 34, in a set of laws known by scholars as the Ritual Decalogue. O...
Scholars call such exclusive worship of one god “monolatry.” While monotheism claims that no other gods exist, monolatry assumes loyalty and exclusive connection to one god, while allowing for the existence of other deities. In fact, many biblical passages that we read nowadays as monotheistic are really monolatrous. A classic example is in the Dec...
In addition to being exclusive, YHWH worship was aniconic, i.e., it did not include images of the deity. This is evident from the absence of human images in the Israelites settlements of the 12th-11th centuries (Iron Age I, biblically, the period of the judges). In addition, the followers of YHWH were apparently iconoclastic, and they would destroy...
This dictionary defines Dawkins' sense of meme as "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture." The word wasn't entered until 1998, when it earned a spot in an update of the Tenth Edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Although Dawkins had coined the word in a 1976 book, it was more ...
Jan 21, 2001 · Published Jan. 21, 2001. Claim: Claim: The word handicap comes from 'cap in hand' and refers to the physically disabled's need to subsist as beggars. FALSE. Example: [Collected on the Internet ...
