Abagta
Abagta : [ ʔaˈbakta ] was a court official of the great king Ahasuerus and servant of the women at the royal court in Susa , the then capital of Persia . He and six other chamberlains were ordered to bring Queen Vashti before the king (Esther 1:10).
Name variants
Hebrew : אֲבַגְתָא ( New Hebrew : Awagta, Tiberian system : Ăḇaḡəṯā '); Elberfelder Bible (1985), Good News Bible , Hope for All (1996), Luther Bible (1984) and Schlachter Bible (1951; 2000): Abagta ; Elberfeld Bible (1871; 1905), Luther Bible (1554; 1912) and New World Translation : Abagtha ; Grünewald Bible: Abageta .
etymology
The name Abagta is a loan word from the altar, in which several personal names are occupied. In Old Indian , avaghāta ("knocking down, the blow") comes from ava-han (ghan), in Old Persian and Old Bactrian from avajan (ghan). Since in Hebrew the tone is on the last syllable and this corresponds to the old Indian accent, the ā of the penultimate syllable has become a Schwa mobile and the a in the last syllable is stretched.
literature
- Kurt Hennig (Ed.): Jerusalem Bibellexikon , Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-77512-367-9
- Heinz Schumacher (Ed.): The names of the Bible and their meaning in German . 9th edition. Paulus-Verlag Karl Geyer, Heilbronn 1989, ISBN 3-87618-027-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isidor Scheftelowitz: Aryan in the Old Testament . Königsberg 1901, p. 37 .
