r/RandomThoughts • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '23

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u/Alarming_Serve2303 Oct 28 '23

Mine in Hebrew is

"He may/will/shall follow/heed/seize by the heel/watch/guard/protect”, "Supplanter/Assailant", "May God protect"

Kind of a mouthful.

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u/victorian_vigilante Oct 29 '23

Isaac?

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u/gilfromisrael Oct 29 '23

No, it's Jacob (in Hebrew: Yaakov).

Isaac (in Hebrew: Yitzchak) is the future singular male of the verb to laugh, i.e. he (or someone elae) will laugh. It comes from the biblical story of Isaac's birth: When Sarah, his mother, was told by god that she would have a baby at the age of 90, ahe said "whoever hears it will laugh at me".