<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 19 November 2007 - Volume 01
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Ben J. Bloomgren</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Names" 2007.11.18 (06) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1exg" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font size="2">I'm not Benjamin. I'm Ben. My mom just liked the
sound of Ben J. Bloomgren.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ben<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jorge Potter</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com
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<div><font size="2">Ron stated that "Benjamin"</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<div><font size="2">is popularly understood to mean "son of the south".
But in the Samaritan Pentateuch it consistently appears as בן ימים (or
rather the equivalent in Samaritan characters -- <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/samaritan.htm" target="_blank">
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/samaritan.htm</a>). This seems to stand for <i>bên yâmiym</i> "son of days", thought to be Jacob's reference to his own old age when his last son was born. <br><br>Incidentally, German and Low Saxon have
<i>Benjamin </i>(the "j" pronounced as "y") as a noun as well, meaning "youngest son.</font></div></div></div></blockquote>
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<div><font size="2">As far as I know, wherever Spanish is spoken, but certainly in Puerto Rico, "el Benjamín de la familia" is the youngest son.<br></font></div></div>
<div>Of course the "j" is a rough "h".</div><font color="#888888">
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<div>Jorge Potter</div></font><br></div></div>
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