Bom Evidence Native American Hebrew Customs And Language

[Tom m]

Hebrew beliefs and customs and language

There examples of Hebrew customs, characters, beliefs and language. Did the Nephites know Hebrew? Mormon answered this question. The Greek language is also compared to the Native American languages of the Indians. The Greek and Hebrew language are related to each other both languages descended from the Phoenician language and writing system.

Mormon 9:33
33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.

(Creek Indians also had similarities to the Hebrew language. Considering that Nephites became Lamanites and Lamanites became Nephites this is not surprising.)
“The name of the Creeks for man, is ishto, and so it is in Hebrew…The same remark might be made with respect to the word Kenaai, for Canaan. Jehovah they call Y-he-ho-wah. The roof of the house they call toubanora ; in the Hebrew it is debonaour. The nose they call nichiri in Hebrew, neheri. The great first cause, Yo-hewah ; in Hebrew, Jehovah. Praise the first cause, in their language, halleluwah ; in Hebrew, hallelujah. Father they call abba ; the same in Hebrew. Now they call na ; in Hebrew, na. To pray they call pliale ; in Hebrew, phalae. In their language, abel is manslaughter; the same in Hebrew. Wife, awah ; in Hebrew, eve, or eweh. Winter, kora in Hebrew, cora. God, Ale ; in Hebrew, Ale, or Alohini. A high mountain, ararat ; the same by the Indians of Penobscot.”
(Haywood 1823 pg282)

 

Silas T Rand knew several languages to include Hebrew concerning Mik Maq Indians

“There are also some words in the language which resemble Greek. The MicNac word Ellenu and Indian, is not very different from (Greek Letters) a Greek. Ellenu esit (“He speaks Micmac”) is strikingly like the Greek (Greek Letters) (“He Speaks Greek”). But in other respects the language resembles the Hebrew, Especially In the suffixes by which the pronouns are connected in the accusative case with the verb.”
(Silas T Rand 1893 )

 

“Their languages are very diverse and differs as much from one another as Dutch, French, Greek and Latin. Declension and conjugation resemble those in Greek, for they, like theGreeks, Have duals in their nouns and even augments in their verbs”
In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives About a Native People

 

“Shilu in Indian is the same as Shiloh in Hebrew; the Indian word for father is Abba; the word for “waiter of the high priest” is Sagan in both Indian and Hebrew; the word for man in Indian is Ish or Ishie.”
(Adair 1735)

 

(Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians )
"Our Indians agree with the Greeks and Latins in this, that they use always the singular, and almost never, or at least very rarely, the plural, even when they speak to their missionaries, or to some other person of prominence. They express themselves
by the word kir^ which means " thou," whether it is the child speaking to its father, the wife to her husband, or the husband to his wife."
(Clercq 1680 pg141)

 

(About Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians)
"They say that when the sun, which they have always
recognized and worshiped as their God, created all this great
universe, he divided the earth immediately into several parts,
wholly separated one from the other by great lakes : that in
each part he caused to be born one man and one woman, and
they multiplied and lived a very long time : hut that having
become wicked along with their children, who killed one
another, the sun wept with grief thereat, and the rain fell from
the heaven in such great abundance that the waters mounted
even to the summit of the rocks, and of the highest and most
lofty mountains. This flood, which, say they, was general
over all the earth, compelled them to set sail in their bark
canoes"
(Clercq 1680 pg85)

 

(Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians Hebrew one year betrothal and dowry.)
"The one of our Indians who wishes to marry a girl must
live an entire year in the wigwam of his mistress's father,
whom he must serve and to whom he must give all the
furs of moose and beavers which he kills in hunting. By the
same law it is forbidden to the future husband and wife to
abandon themselves to their pleasure."
(Clercq 1680 pg238)

 

(Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians ancient Hebrew belief of a women being unclean during her menstrual period)
"A matter which is yet more surprising is this—they
observe still to this day certain ceremonies of which they
do not know the origin, giving no other reasons than that
their ancestors have always practiced the same thing. The
first is this, that the women and girls, when they suffer the
inconveniences usual to their sex, are accounted unclean."
(Clercq 1680 pg227)

 

In 1735 James Adair lived isolated among the Native American Indians for 40 years. He wrote a book about their customs and practices of the Indians. In this book he postulated that the Indians are from the lost 12 tribes of Israel he stated 22 reason listed below.
   “1. Their division into tribes. 2. Their worship of J-hov-h. 3. Their notions of a theocracy.
    4. Their belief in the administration of angels. 5. Their language and dialects. 6. Their
    manner of counting time. 7. Their prophets and high priests. 8. Their festivals, fasts and
    religious rites. 9. Their daily sacrifice. 10. Their ablutions and anointings. 11. Their laws
    of uncleanliness. 12. Their abstinence from unclean things. 18. Their marriage, divorces
    and punishments of adultery. 14. Their several punishments. 15. Their cities of refuge.
    16. Their purifications and preparatory ceremonies. 17. Their ornaments. 18. Their
    manner of' curing the sick. 19. Their burial of the dead. 20. Their mourning for the dead.
    21. Their raising seed to a deceased brother. 22. Their change of names adapted to their
    circumstances and times.

 

(Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians This one is more Egyptian but the Hebrews were once enslaved by the Egyptians.)
"I have learned only this from our Indians, that
the chiefs of their nation formerly entrusted the bodies of the
dead to certain old men, who carried them sacredly to a wigwam
built on purpose in the midst of the woods, where they
remained for a month or six weeks. They opened the head
and the belly of the dead person, and removed therefrom the
brain and the entrails"
(Clercq 1680 pg302)

 

“they are either descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, or they have had, in some former era, a close contact and intercourse with the Hebrews, imbibing from them their beliefs and customs and the traditions of their patriarchs”
(Warren Williams Ojibwa History)

 

(Gaspesian/Mik Maq Indians)
"After the death of one's brother, it is permissible to marry
his wife, in order that she may have children of the same
blood if she has not had any by her first husband"
(Clercq 1680 pg228)

Edited July 3, 2015 by Tom m