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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Tiras


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Tiras is a son of Japheth, son of Noah.

The name Tiras is difficult to interpret because there is nothing in the ancient Hebrew language that looks like it. The word Tiras (tiras) is the modern Hebrew word for maize, but Klein firmly protests against it ("far and forced is the way in which this proper name came to denote maize or corn").

Fuerst points out the unused root thrs and that (back to Klein) means to separate priestly dues; to contribute, donate; having to do with separation, consecration.

Perhaps the name is a construct of the letter taw plus a derivation of the root rasas (rasas 2181), to moisten, or rasas (rss 2182), the assumed root of Tiras (rasis 2182a), fragment. The latter may have helped to form the modern word for maize.

This way the name Tiras may mean Fragmentizer.



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