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VERSE: Nu26-05a

BACKGROUND
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Every child of Jacob had a subtribe named after him. The
subtribe's name had the same name as the child with a "y" at the
end. Thus eg a child named JOE became the tribe JOEY. Furthermore
to emphasize that this was a tribe and not a person it was called
THE JOEY.Since you indicate the word THE in Hebrew by prefixing
with the letter "hay" we have that the person named "JOE" became
the tribe named "[H] JOE [Y]". There is in fact a list of 5 dozen
names and tribes in Nu26


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CHILD                   TRIBE                   VERSE
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ChNoCh                  [h] chnoch  [y]         Nu26-05
YaMiN                   [h] yamin   [y]         Nu26-12
ChFR                    [h] chfr    [y]         Nu26-32
ChGY                    [h] chg     [y]         Nu26-15
PVH                     [h] pn      [y]         Nu26-23
YiMNaH                  [h] [Y]iMNa [h]         Nu26-44

                                     *1
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*1 Notice how of the 5 dozen names all of them follow this
pattern of "adding a [h] at the front and a [y] at the
end" with one exception---YIMNAH, the last person on the
above list


To explain this I have carefully constructed the above
list. THere are names that begin with [y] and names that end
with [h]--yet all these names have the [h] and [y] added.
It is only YIMNAh whose name BOTH begins and ends with [h][y]
that is an exception.In other words the simplest way to
distinguish YIMNAH from other people is to note that his name
both begins and ends with [y][h]. Still another way of seeing
this is to perform an advanced database query and ask which
feature distinguishes YIMNAH from the other tribes. The
simplest (ie shortest) such feature is "begin and end with
letters of Gods name--[y][h]".

Once we see this interest in "surrounding the name with
the letters of Gods name" it is straightforward to see
this as a strengthening of faith presumably brought about
by the destructive forces of Egypt. Hence Rashis comments
that the Jews, to preserve their identity surrounded
Gods name on all their names--since YIMNAH already had his
named surrounded with a [h,y] no further change was necessary

NOTE: I have supplemented Rashis explanation by trying to
emphasize that there is no simpler explanation why YMNH
did not have a Y placed on his name.

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