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To: Verginius Rufus

In Esther, Mordechai identifies himself as of the Tribe of Benjamin and a Jewish man - ish Yehudi, presumably to clarify his allegiance to the Kingdom of Judah as opposed to being of earlier Exiles from the Northern Kingdom.

Jer. 34:9 KJV seems true to the Hebrew original:

“That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess [Ivri and Ivriyah] go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew [Yehudi] his brother.”


21 posted on 05/24/2025 6:05:34 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto
Interesting. The Septuagint renders that as Beniamin and Ioudaios

St. Paul also claimed to be of the tribe of Benjamin, but also referred to himself as a Jew and as a Hebrew.

I knew that "ish" meant "man" because of the name of Saul's son Ishbaal. I once met an Israeli whose surname was Ish-Shalom.

22 posted on 05/24/2025 6:32:56 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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