Talk:Ehud

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[edit] Union? what union?

The opening paragraph states the Ehud means Union.I didn't want to delete this since I may be wrong, but I have nevere heard of Ehud meaning Union in Hebrew. Can someone back this up? conio.h • talk 01:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It said here when I looked it up. I think the definition comes from Easton's Bible Dictionary. - Gilgamesh 02:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

That's very odd. Ehud is quite an irregular form(meaning it isn't used today's Hebrew) from the root א-ה-ד. I don't know how EBD came to this. Also there's a Smith’s Bible Dictionary at the same site, saying Ehud means Union too.

Problem is, not only I don't understand how they got that idea, it has no actual basis. Two major Bible Dictionaries say so, but provide no reaso to think it is so. Hitchcocks’s Dictionary of Bible Names(also at the same site) says that Ehud means "he that praises"(dictionary.com gives this too) . Now that's closer to the meaning of א-ה-ד. In Hebrew, union(for people as well as for sets) is איחוד. At first I thought that someone got confused between ה and ח and put it in wiki. Now I have two sources(that I guess are considered serious; I've never heard of Easton's Dictionary until today) that say so, so I tend to think(/hope?) they didn't make such an error, but the problem yet remains: this translation is meaningless, and has no basis. The fact that someone said something doesn't make it true.

I tend to think that if we can't put our finger on what's behind this translation exactly, we can't keep it. I'm no famous Bible researcher, but to me this translation seems simply wrong. conio.h • talk 06:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)