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Isaiah chapter 60, describes the future redemption. The exiles who left the land in poverty will return with great wealth:<\/span><\/p>\n

Raise your eyes and look about: They have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, Your daughters like babes on shoulders. As you behold, you will glow; Your heart will throb and thrill\u2014 For the wealth of the sea shall pass on to you, The riches of nations shall flow to you. Dust clouds of camels shall cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. They all shall come from Sheba; They shall bear gold and frankincense, and shall herald the glories of the LORD (60:4-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Those returning will have so many camels that the dust they kick up will cover everyone. Two words are used for camels in the last verse: camels and dromedaries. The Hebrew for \u201ccamels\u201d is the common word <\/span>gamal<\/span><\/em>, ultimately the source of the English word \u201ccamel\u201d. But the Hebrew original for \u201cdromedary\u201d is the rare <\/span>bekher<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> A more precise translation would be \u201cyoung camel\u201d, and that is the meaning of the Arabic cognate <\/span>bakr<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bekher<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is related to the more familiar words <\/span>bekhor<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cfirst born\u201d and <\/span>bikkurim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cfirst fruits.\u201d What is the connection to young camels?<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, the original meaning of that root had a sense of \u201cbreaking forth\u201d, \u201cbeing first\u201d and \u201cbeing early.\u201d So these young camels were considered to be living at an earlier stage than their mature relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

While <\/span>bekher\u00a0<\/span><\/em>is rare in Biblical Hebrew, it has a cognate in a familiar English word. The Arabic word <\/span>bakr<\/span><\/em> was borrowed into Portuguese and Spanish as <\/span>albacora<\/span><\/em>, and somewhere along the way it began to refer to a large kind of tuna \u2013 which we know today as \u201calbacore.\u201d The connection between tuna and camels isn\u2019t clear. Some say it\u2019s because of the size. I wonder if maybe the large dorsal fin reminded them of the hump of a camel.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this may not be the only connection between Isaiah and the fish.<\/span><\/p>\n

In chapter 27, he prophesies about a battle where God will defeat various sea monsters:<\/span><\/p>\n

In that day the LORD will punish,<\/span>
\n<\/span>With His great, cruel, mighty sword<\/span>
\n<\/span>Leviathan the Elusive Serpent\u2014 Leviathan the Twisting Serpent;<\/span>
\n<\/span>He will slay the Dragon of the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew word for \u201cdragon\u201d is <\/span>tanin<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>While in other biblical verses <\/span>tanin<\/span><\/em> refers to other animals, such as a snake (Exodus 7:9) and crocodile (Ezekiel 29:3 \u2013 and this is the meaning in modern Hebrew), a common thread between them all seems to be that they live in the water. One theory says that the Greek word <\/span>thynnos<\/span><\/em> derived from the Hebrew <\/span>tanin<\/span><\/em>, and referred to a particular large fish. <\/span>Thynnos<\/span><\/em> went on quite a linguistic journey \u2013 through Latin, Arabic, Spanish \u2013 and eventually – here’s an encore for the albacore – became the English word \u201ctuna.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":68587,"id":68587,"title":"is60-camels","filename":"is60-camels.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-camels.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-camels-and-dromedaries-of-redemption\/is60-camels\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is60-camels","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":68501,"date":"2020-01-14 15:03:42","modified":"2021-11-15 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