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During the period leading up to the destruction of the Temple, there were many false prophets who encouraged people to rebel against the Babylonians. Jeremiah delivered the word of God and told them to ignore those messages of false hope:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs for you, give no heed to your prophets, augurs, dreamers, diviners, and sorcerers, who say to you, \u2018Do not serve the king of Babylon.\u2019\u201d (Jeremiah 27:9)<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at a few of these words for these fortune tellers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cprophets\u201d are <\/span>nevi\u2019im<\/span><\/em>, or <\/span>navi<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>in the singular. The word likely derives from a root meaning \u201cto call, proclaim.\u201d Some say that this means that the prophet was the \u201cone called\u201d by God, but more likely it means the one who calls to God, or proclaims the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is possible that the Arabic <\/span>na\u2019ib<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cviceroy\u201d \u2013 is related to <\/span>navi<\/span><\/em>, in that the viceroy was appointed to, or \u201ccalled upon\u201d to fulfill the position. <\/span>Na\u2019ib<\/span><\/em>\u00a0entered the Indian language of Hindi as <\/span>nabab<\/span><\/em>, which eventually became the English word \u201cnabob\u201d \u2013 an important (and usually wealthy) person.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next word in the verse is \u201caugurs.\u201d The Hebrew word for augur here is <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>Today a <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is a magician, who performs magic \u2013 <\/span>kesem<\/span><\/em>, with none of the religious overtones. We also have the word <\/span>kesam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in modern Hebrew, meaning \u201ctoothpick,\u201d and earlier meant \u201cchip, carving.\u201d This is actually related to <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>, because either the augur used carving in his craft, or he divided up lots (breaking them up like chips) to determine the future. A related Arabic word, <\/span>kisma<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cdivision, lot, destiny\u201d, later entered Turkish and gave us the word \u201ckismet,\u201d meaning \u201cfate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The third word in the list is \u201cdreamers\u201d. A dream in Hebrew is <\/span>chalom<\/span><\/em>, which in the Hebrew spelling seems very similar to the word <\/span>hachlama<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201crecovery; to become healthy, strong.\u201d A number of efforts have been made to connect the two words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some say that <\/span>hachlama<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>means \u201cto be well\u201d, and when you have dreams you are \u201csleeping well.\u201d Others say that having dreams is a sign of maturity, which is related to becoming stronger.<\/span><\/p>\n

A particularly interesting theory claims that during sleep, our ideas become strong and are therefore free of the rule of the intellect.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that way, the less rational the dream the stronger the idea it represents might appear to be. This would be exactly the approach that the realistic Jeremiah was arguing against.<\/span><\/p>\n

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