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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
I noticed the name Nimrod in Genesis,and I find it quite amusing as to whom Nimrod was. How’d it come to mean “idiot”?

Probably anti-rural bigotry. Nimrod was a hunter (a hunter after the souls of men, but still a hunter), and so the appellation originally referred to a hunter. And since most hunters are "hicks from the sticks," it came to mean a rural bumpkin.

Funny, though, how liberals never seem to object to "indigenous pipples" who hunt.

The actual name comes from the verbal root mem-re'sh-dalet meaning "to rebel;" thus Nimrod was a rebel against G-d.

6 posted on 10/11/2010 2:37:03 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vehe'emin beHaShem; vayachsheveha lo tzedaqah.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I thought Nimrod was supposed to be the bravest man. We didn’t get too far into the reading,as the Reform don’t usually read the Torah on the other days of the week. I’ll have to do that. I have a question for you.I know who the Levites and the Cohens are,but who are the others you mention for the Torah readings?


7 posted on 10/11/2010 2:45:53 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord,For His Name Alone Is Exaulted)
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