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From: vacco@alpha.acast.nova.edu (Don Corleone)
Subject: Re: Hebrew AMEN and Egytian AMUN - common root?
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Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 06:36:25 GMT
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In article <D84CGL.n53@actcom.co.il> bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck) writes:
>Helmut Richter (Helmut.Richter@lrz-muenchen.de) wrote:
>: Recently there was discussion on the origins of "amen" in another
>: newsgroup.  The question itself could easily be answered but a
>: side-track remained unresolved: whether the Hebrew root AMN (truth,
>: faith) is in any way related to the Egyptian (god named Amun, lots of
>: kings called Amen...).
>
>: Is there a common root or is it just coincidence?
>
>: Helmut Richter
>The hebrew word AMN (amen) is comes from the same root as the hebrew 
>'EMUNA' faith. 
>There are also other similar words in Hebrew like UMAN,-craftsman, which
>is known to be derived from Accadian ummanu, but is probably not
>related to amen.
>The idea that it is somehow related to Egyptian seems far-fetched
>to me. It sounds like a word composed of very basic syllable, a combination
>which can very reasonably occur and reoccur in different places.
>like the mantra OM. or just like plain humming.
>Uri 
>

It might not be so far-fetched an idea. I heard the the name
"Moses" was somehow related to the suffix "-mose", as in
Tut-mose or whatever.


