GR 1159          EANOS

H 0155            ג נ ע

Concept of root : adorn

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ג נ ע

‛oneg

adornment

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

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Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ג נ ע

‛oneg

adornment

‛a n g

Greek

εανός

eanos

splendid cloak or female dress

e a n

 

 

Proto-Semitic *‛ANOG --- *EAN-OS Greek

 

 

This entry deals with what may be the same root found in number E 0419 (Hebrew 0154).

 

To suppose a common origin is an audacious shot. This Greek word has an unknown etymology. It also expresses softness and suppleness of dress and was used specifically for female dressing of adorning kinds.

 

Note:
  • Greek and Hebrew. The double vowel of Greek "eanos" and the "ayin+vowel" of Hebrew "'oneg" may be in harmony with each other. We should not forget that the choice of the vowel, A or O, does not mean a different root. The basic form of Hebrew "‛oneg" is still "‛anag". The difference remains in the third consonant in Hebrew, the "G", that has been used to specify the meaning of "to please, adorn". This choice may have been suggested by the existing word in Hebrew "nagā" that says splendid , lucent!

 

Note:
  • Hebrew "‛oneg" also indicates delicateness and even a spoiling effect. All typical for older ideas about adornments and splendid clothes for women. But an identical root talks about pleasure-seeking. It is possible that the two concepts have been expressed by people using one and the same root. In the sense of this entry it is found only in Hebrew.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. A root "ע נ ג" is used in Jeremiah 6.2 as an epitheton for Zion, translated as "full of desire", but also as "lovely, pleasing" . Isaiah 13.22 speaks of "voluptuous palaces" or "palaces of pleasure" and in Isaiah 58,13 the Sabbath is defined as a "delight" or "diversion". The root is also used in Aramaic and Arabic and Proto-Semitic may well have used it as such : "*ע נ ג, Ayin N G " , though the exact use remains not clearly defined.

 

 

 

 
"...the town, to which was given the name Babel, because it was there that the Lord confused the language of all the world on the face of which He dispersed them. GENESIS 11,9"
 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 01/10/2012 at 16.21.48