| Title: | The CHRISTIAN Notesfile |
| Notice: | Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165 |
| Moderator: | ICTHUS::YUILLE ON |
| Created: | Tue Feb 16 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 962 |
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I've run across the name Koresh several times of late. The waco in
Waco being one of course. However, over 100 years ago a man in the
midwest started a religion of his own and took the name Koresh as well.
He later moved his whole group to southwest Florida where they founded
the town of Estero, where my mother in law lives. The religion has
mostly died out and most of their property was deeded to the state
of Florida where it is now known as the Koreshian State Historic Site.
Many of the original buildings are being restored and preserved.
In any case, I haven't been through the park but I picked up a
brochure. The name Koresh is called a Biblical name. I believe that
David Koresh called it such as well. This all got my curiosity going.
The problem is that I can't find the name Koresh in any of my Bibles.
Even my reference that lists some alternate spellings for names doesn't
list it. Can anyone help me out here? Was there a Koresh in the Bible?
Or perhaps in a book in the Apocrypha? Thanks.
Alfred
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| 420.1 | spider? | DNEAST::DALELIO_HENR | Mon Feb 28 1994 06:01 | 11 | |
According to the contemporary (but supposedly late) David Koresh
it (Koresh) is a transliteration of a Hebrew word found in the
book of Isaiah. (Koph-resh-shin) I assume. I looked it up in a
lexicon some time ago, there was more than one possibility. I'm
not 100% sure if I got it right but I think it means "spider".
Something I heard Koresh say (on the news) seemed to make this one
fit. He said something to the effect that he was luring them (FBI)
into his web. Ill check it again...
Hank
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| 420.2 | POWDML::SMCCONNELL | Next year, in Jerusalem! | Mon Feb 28 1994 09:45 | 5 | |
Alfred,
You'd find it as "Cyrus" in most (all?) English Bibles.
Steve
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| 420.3 | homework | DNEAST::DALELIO_HENR | Tue Mar 01 1994 06:27 | 22 | |
Cyrus is correct and is the anglicized transliteration of
koph holem resh (vowel mark) shin
k o r e sh
Isaiah 44:28; 45:1 "to His anointed to Cyrus" which David Koresh
(apparently) applied to himself.
What I was refering to is a Hebrew homonym which (apparently) he
was also fond of applying to himself as a play on words.
cheth (vowel mark) resh (vowel mark) shin
k o r e sh
To fabricate, knit, art of handcraft; thus of a spider spinning a web
Proverbs 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces.
Hank
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