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Hebrew: "ben," son; "jamin," right: son of (my) right
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IP, can you expanding on the meaning? I don't quite understand.
Also, I couldn't see a theme for this week's words. Is it there and I just missed it?
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Jacob's youngest son, I think. Jacob named him "Benjamin," "son of my right," meaning nearest to his heart, or some such. He was carrying a Franklin note when he went down to Egypt.
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Benjamin is my name. I have also been told it means "son of my right hand" which is, when you think about it, quite an ambivalent etymology. It good mean "right-hand son" or "son of my red right hand", if you see what I mean.
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'twas for that reason I omitted the 'hand' part. Probably, though, it was the right hand they put under their thigh to make all those covenants with God, back then. Or so I imagine or remember. So it's really not a bad thing at all, if you can get past the titters.
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my son is Benjamin-and someone told me that son of the right hand was an idiom for "favorite" (something similar to a employee who is helpful and becomes a boss's 'right hand man'-
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I suspect Allyn (welcome Aboard, by the way) wants to know why this flower is called Stinking Benjamin rather than the specific Hebrew etymology of Benjamin. Was the flower named after a particular Benjamin or what?
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The "stinking" part is quickly apparent from the several websites which refer to this trillium's odour as akin to carion. The "Benjamin" part is a more interesting mystery.
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Hebrew yamin (ymyn) 'the right hand, right side, right; the South'; relatd to Syr.Aram. yamin, yamina', Ugar. ymn, Arabic yami:n, yaman (= right hand, right side, south), Ethiop. yama:n (= right hand), Akkad. immu, imittu (= right hand, right side). Klein's CEDHL. It is interesting that the idea of the South being on the right, due, no doubt, to one's facing East, also obtains in Sanskrit: daksina (cf. Latin dexter) 'right hand, South'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>> due, no doubt, to one's facing East <<
Interesting. East as origin, presumably?
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