Genesis 6:11
The Hebrew and the Arabic are the same word: Hamas (destruction)

I got a chuckle the other day as we had talked about the proto-evangelion in Gen 3:15 and this is the Proto-Islam. You could literally say that the Earth was full of hamas.

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Rich
PCA, Northern VA
Student, New Geneva Theological Seminary

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Emph mine:

Palestine (from Dictionary.com)
from L. Palestina (name of a Roman province), from Gk. Palaistine (Herodotus), from Heb. Pelesheth "Philistia, land of the Philistines." Revived as a political territorial name 1920.

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AV
Baptist
VA

Sounds like almost the Scottish guys I know who are Queen of the South fans and quote Luke 11:31 as authoritative.

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

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