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Re: Rachel and other -el names
by Andy (guest)
9/10/2004, 2:34 PM
in reply to a message by Rae
It's the Aleph. Rachel doesn't have one, and the Hebrew word for God is El (Aleph-Lamed). Aleph represents a soft guttural sound to open a vowel. When the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet, they took the Aleph for a vowel: A.
Now Yael has a similar sound, but a different character: Ayin. So no God in that name either.Does this help?Andy ;—)
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Rachel and other -el names  ·  Rae  ·  9/10/2004, 2:18 PM
•Re: Rachel and other -el names  ·  Andy  ·  9/10/2004, 2:34 PM
•Re: Rachel and other -el names  ·  Menke  ·  9/11/2004, 4:02 AM
•Not likely  ·  Duke  ·  9/15/2004, 7:35 AM
•Re: Not likely  ·  Andy  ·  9/15/2004, 10:05 AM
•Re: Rachel and other -el names  ·  Rae  ·  9/10/2004, 2:54 PM
•Re: Rachel and other -el names  ·  RachelChristine  ·  9/10/2004, 9:00 PM