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Tevai
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Date: September 11, 2016 04:21PM
Topper Wrote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bOxvpDP2oNevermo question...
Is Melchizedek supposed to be from Hebrew?
If so, the Hebrew letter "ch" is NOT pronounced "k" (which is a perfectly good Hebrew letter all by itself ("kof" in English transliteration).
(I have always felt affection for "kof", ever since I learned how to write it in Hebrew---because the Hebrew letter "kof" is not only visually beautiful in a very classicly simple way, it is instantly recognizable, and regardless of where in a word it appears.)
"ch" is another Hebrew letter entirely (actually: it is TWO different Hebrew letters, depending on where it appears in a word), and it is pronounced as a very rough "h," like someone clearing their throat as they say it, and though the "roughness" is softened somewhat in actual Hebrew speech, the "ch" sound is still a distinctly DIFFERENT sound than is an English-language "k" sound). (In speech, the two different sounds CANNOT be mistaken for each other---they are THAT different.)
I am very glad you posted this, Topper, because I (a nevermo) never knew if the "ch" was an English-language "k," or if it was a Hebrew (German, Dutch, etc.) "rough h."
From now on, when I see "Melchizedek," I will mentally replace the "ch" with a Hebrew "kof."
Many thanks!!!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2016 04:24PM by Tevai.