{"id":36540,"date":"2018-07-31T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=36540"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:39:07","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen14\/","title":{"rendered":"MiliMiliM &#8211; The Hebrew Corner &#8211; Gen14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[361,434],"acf":{"old_id":"36540","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34011,"related_cahpter":"14","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\u05de\u05dc\u05d7\u05de\u05d4 - Milchamah - War\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u05de\u05dc\u05d7\u05de\u05d4, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">milchamah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cwar\u201d is the beginning, middle and end of this chapter: the somewhat bizarre, almost Tolkienesque, \u00a0tale of the war of the four kings against the five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this column is not about wars but about words (occasionally there will be wars of words, and words of war), and what\u2019s important to say about the word <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">milchamah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here is not so much what it is, but rather what it isn\u2019t. We explore here Hebrew words, and also their roots. Since the (usually) three-letter roots help us uncover core or sometimes even hidden meanings, it is easy to get carried away in looking for connections. But there are coincidences and homonyms in Hebrew just like any other language, and so while meaningful \u201cmidrashic\u201d connections between words are always possible, limited only by the imagination of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">darshan<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the one making up the interpretation, one must take care before proposing an actual historical etymology (word derivation).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, a question for those with some Hebrew familiarity: what does the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">milchamah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cwar\u201d look like? What are some of the main things that people fight over? Hint: there\u2019s a word that appears in this chapter that is often mistaken as being related. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In verse 18, King Melchizedek of Salem is described as greeting Abraham the returning conqueror, and having \u201cbrought out <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lechem<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bread and wine.\u201d This is brought out as part of the conclusion of the war, the beginning of the peace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you said \u05dc\u05d7\u05dd, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lechem<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bread &#8211; you\u2019re right! That is, you\u2019re wrong. That\u2019s the word many people assume is related, because it seems to make so much sense. \u05dc\u05d7\u05dd, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lechem<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bread, seems to be the at the heart of the word for war &#8211; as food and resources are indeed some of the main objects of struggle. But again, while there are interesting conceptual connections that can be made &#8211; the words themselves are not related.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What are related is the noun \u05dc\u05d5\u05d7\u05dd, <em>lochem<\/em>, &#8220;warrior,&#8221; the verb \u05e0\u05dc\u05d7\u05dd,\u00a0<em>nilcham<\/em>, &#8220;fight,&#8221; and the adjective \u05dc\u05d5\u05d7\u05de\u05e0\u05d9,\u00a0<em>lochmani<\/em>, &#8220;combative.&#8221;\u00a0 Now them&#8217;s fighting words.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":102323,"id":102323,"title":"-6214dae939cd0--6214dae939cd1gen14-milim milchamah.jpg","filename":"6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen14\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":36540,"date":"2022-02-22 12:45:29","modified":"2022-02-22 12:45:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6214dae939cd0-6214dae939cd1gen14-milim-milchamah.jpg-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"MiliMiliM - 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