You are never too old to learn. Today at Mass I learned about zananiah. The gospel was the parable about the weeds. Matthew 13:
24-30. The homilist explained that the weeds that were sown were particularly insidious because they look like wheat for 2/3 of its growth. This wheat in early Hebrew was called zananiah.
Naming this weed zananiah is interesting. In Hebrew it is ZNH.
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The vanishing Hebrew harlot; the adventures of the Hebrew stem ZNH.
The Hebrew stem ZNH (as translated into the Latin alphabet) has a generally accepted lexical meaning of "commit fornication, be/act as a harlot.
In other words, it had the equivalent of F#*! You. Interesting that it was used by the enemy of the sower.
