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In chapter 36, God tells Jeremiah to write down all the prophecies he had received:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGet a scroll and write upon it all the words that I have spoken to you – concerning Israel and Judah and all the nations – from the time I first spoke to you in the days of Josiah to this day\u201d (2).<\/span><\/p>\n

While in English there is one word for what he was told to write on \u2013 \u201cscroll,\u201d in Hebrew there are two: <\/span>megilat sefer<\/span><\/em>. Today we think of <\/span>megillah<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as a scroll and <\/span>sefer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as \u201cbook\u201d, but that was not how it was originally.<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, what we call a book today (technically a \u201ccodex\u201d) only came around much later. Almost all writing at the time was done on scrolls. This is the origin of the word <\/span>megillah<\/span><\/em>. The root <\/span>GLL<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means \u201cto roll.\u201d Other words related to this root are <\/span>gal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cwave\u201d, <\/span>galgal<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cwheel\u201d, and <\/span>galil<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cdistrict\u201d (similar to the English word \u201ccircuit\u201d, which means both \u201ca circular course\u201d and \u201can area enclosed in a periphery.\u201d) What we call the Galil (the Galilee), a large area in the northern part of Israel, was originally called <\/span>Galil HaGoyim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(Isaiah 8:23) – the \u201cdistrict of nations\u201d, apparently because many tribes and small nations lived there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sefer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0originally meant a written message (like a letter), that was commonly written on a scroll. Those letters are often described as being sent (Esther 1:22, 3:13). So some say it is related to a Semitic root meaning \u201cto send\u201d, which is related to the Arabic <\/span>safar<\/span><\/em> \u2013 journey. That later led to the Swahili word \u201csafari\u201d \u2013 a journey or expedition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Others think that perhaps it is related to another Hebrew root, meaning \u201cto cut.\u201d Perhaps this is connected to the \u201cscribe\u2019s knife\u201d mentioned later in this chapter (23), which may have been used to mark the lines or letters in the parchment. A haircut in Hebrew is a <\/span>tisporet<\/span><\/em>, from this same root.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the written message, the root <\/span>SFR<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>came to mean the message itself. \u201cTelling a story\u201d in Hebrew is <\/span>mesaper sipur<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>And just as in English where the words \u201ctell\u201d and \u201c(bank) teller\u201d, and \u201ccount\u201d and \u201crecount\u201d are related, since either items or events are \u201csummed up\u201d, Hebrew also connects counting and story-telling. A <\/span>sofer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a \u201cscribe\u201d, but it is also the verb of someone counting. And \u201cnumber\u201d is <\/span>mispar<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just told you a number of words related to <\/span>sefer<\/span><\/em>. You could even say it was \u201ca whole megillah\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n

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