Does anyone know what Sanballat means in Hebrew? I googled it and it said it means : bramblebush, enemy of God. But I looked it up in my concordance and don't see how they got that.
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Judges 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Doing ballet in the sand?Lol...nope, no idea here.
Just found this:
Dictionaries - Easton's Bible Dictionary - Sanballat
Sanballat [N] [H]
held some place of authority in Samaria when Nehemiah went up to Jerusalem to rebuild its ruined walls. He vainly attempted to hinder this work ( Nehemiah 2:10 Nehemiah 2:19 ; 4:1-12 ; 6 ). His daughter became the wife of one of the sons of Joiada, a son of the high priest, much to the grief of ( Nehemiah 13:28 ).
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Isaiah 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
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Judges 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Zechariah 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Ezekiel 31:13-15 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: [14] To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. [15] Thus saith the Lord God ; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
should sound familiar Ezekiel 39:17-19 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
don’t know if any of the helps.
Zechariah 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Ezekiel 31:13-15 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: [14] To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. [15] Thus saith the Lord God ; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
should sound familiar Ezekiel 39:17-19 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
don’t know if any of the helps.
Given your earlier post, I don't recommend you trying ballet in the sand. Even WITH your cane.
Unless...you want us to call you Sandy instead of Nancy.
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Well it's interesting but it doesn't tell me what Sanballat means in Hebrew. :)
Given your earlier post, I don't recommend you trying ballet in the sand. Even WITH your cane.
Unless...you want us to call you Sandy instead of Nancy.
hahaha! Yer funneeeee!
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Me neither. I go to my 20 pound concordance and look it up, including the root word, if any, that it comes from. But I'm confused about what is above and below the definition for Sanballat there.
But, if it is correct that its meaning is: bramble Bush, enemy of God, it would be interesting. There was Sanballat and Tobias, who were disturbed that Nehemiah was coming to help the people, and they mocked and asked if he was defying the king. Then Gesham joined them.
The names of this triad of opposition would then read something like this:
A bramble Bush/enemy of God (seeking to entangle/hinder nehemiah from doing what God placed in his heart), followed by God is good (Tobias) and will bring violent showers (geshem). I guess I see the violent showers as...showers of favor and protection for the work of rebuilding the wall. But this is more by feel than by scholarship. I'm not a scholar.
The names of this triad of opposition would then read something like this:
A bramble Bush/enemy of God (seeking to entangle/hinder nehemiah from doing what God placed in his heart), followed by God is good (Tobias) and will bring violent showers (geshem). I guess I see the violent showers as...showers of favor and protection for the work of rebuilding the wall. But this is more by feel than by scholarship. I'm not a scholar.
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Sanballat...never heard of it. It is Interesting. Will follow along to read insight others bring to it.
Found this...
In Hebrew the name is Sanballat (Hebrew: סַנְבַלָּט). Eberhard Schrader, cited in Brown–Driver–Briggs, considered that the name in Akkadian was Sīnuballit, from the name of the Sumerian moon god Sīn meaning "Sīn has begotten."
Sanballat the Horonite - Wikipedia
In Hebrew the name is Sanballat (Hebrew: סַנְבַלָּט). Eberhard Schrader, cited in Brown–Driver–Briggs, considered that the name in Akkadian was Sīnuballit, from the name of the Sumerian moon god Sīn meaning "Sīn has begotten."
Sanballat the Horonite - Wikipedia
I guess my question could only be answered by someone who physically has one of those huge exhaustive concordances before them and could tell me what the indented part above a the Sanballat definition means...
I think they have not read it properly because it seems they just picked the word above Sanballat to come up with bramble Bush. Doesn't make sense to me why they have done that...
I think they have not read it properly because it seems they just picked the word above Sanballat to come up with bramble Bush. Doesn't make sense to me why they have done that...
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What verse? Underline the word. Do you have a Strong's Concordance to look it up in?
In my exhaustive concordance for dinosaurs, it just says a Persian satrap.
CharismaticLady
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Read Job 40 and 41. It is the only place I know of that describes them to a 't'.
Still what verse has that ballet in the sand word?
I found this: and it means "enemy in secret."
Topical Bible: Sanballat
That is not a Hebrew name, but an Akkadian name. According to Brown-Driver-Briggs (quoting another source) it means "Sin gave life".
"Sin" is a Mesopotamian god (the god of the moon), also known as "Nanna" in Sumerian. Check Britannica.
Nancy was just being silly when she suggested that Sanballat meant ballet in the sand.
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