We continue with our review of the Old Testament collecting the names of their female heroines to offer you ideas of names for your unborn children.
We leave the story in the descendants of Jacob with his four companions. He would have 12 boys and a girl, Dina, who we will take care of now.
Dyne
Dyne She was daughter of Lía. When he is born, being at that time much more appreciated the man, it does not seem that the mother took special pride, or, at least, we are not given so many details about his name. Anyway, Dina comes from the Hebrew word DYIN which means "Justice" or perhaps it should be interpreted as "the judge" or "the just one." The truth is that poor Dina didn't have much luck.
History, in addition to explaining to us the resistance to mixing with other peoples, warns of the danger posed by caste maidens mixing with girls of less demure customs.
Dyne He began to interact with the girls of Shechem, the city near which Jacob had set up his camp. And the prince's son, called Shechem, like the city, noticed her, slept with her and dishonored her. It seems that it could have been a violation. Then the young man fell in love with her and asked for her in marriage, apparently accessing the girl's family in exchange for the man and his citizens adopting the Hebrew customs and circumcising themselves.
It seemed that everything had been fixed (we do not know what Dina would feel of all this, not a word is on her point of view), but the older brothers did not forgive the offense and, at night, attacked the city killing the men, looting the houses, taking the cattle and enslaving women and children. We won't know much more about poor Dina, but she was still alive when the whole family emigrated, years later, to Egypt. The name of Dyne I think it's beautiful, but the story isn't too much.
Tamar
After Dina's terrible affair, Jacob's family continued to suffer miserable avatars. Raquel was José's mother but later died when she gave birth to Benjamin. Joseph, his father's favorite, would suffer the anger and envy of his brothers who sold him as a slave making Jacob believe that the young man had died.
But before continuing with José and his adventures we will make a stop at Tamar, which was daughter-in-law Judah, one of Jacob's sons. Judah maybe disliked the actions of his brothers and maybe that's why he decided to move away to live in another area. Judah married a Canaanite woman named Súa who gave him three sons: Er, Onan and Selá.
The elder married another Canaanite, Tamar, whose name is identified with "Date Palm" and symbolizes the sweetness of the date.
Her husband Er seems to be that he was not a good person and God ended his life. As the widow had run out of children Judah married her with her second descendant, but when she fathered her children they would be considered as children of the elder, beginning a custom that will later be known as "levirate" and that Moses will gather.
Onan su was sleeping with Tamar but he did not want her to conceive, so that she would not give birth to children who were considered the brother and spilled the seed out of his wife's body. Hence the word "onanism", which, although originally it should refer to "coitus interruptus", the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language identifies it with masturbation in general. What Onan did not seem right to God and says the Bible that also took his life. Poor Tamar was a widow for the second time without children.
Selá was too small to marry his brothers' widow, so Judah told the woman that he would better return to his father's house and that, when Selá grew up, he would marry her. But the years passed and Judah seems to have forgotten his daughter-in-law and the promise he had made.
While Judah became a widower and little by little he went out of pain, dedicating himself to shepherding accompanied by his friend Hira. But one day, walking along the roads, he met a sacred prostitute, like those who served in the temples of Isthar, who sat on the side of the veiled path, so that his face could not be seen.
Judah wanted to sleep with her and the woman asked for a kid as payment. He promised that he would arrive at the same place the next day, but she, as a pledge, asked for his ring with his seal, the cord with which he wore and his staff.
But when he sent the kid the next day the prostitute was not there and no one gave him reason, stating that there was no woman standing there. Judah was taken aback.
However, the sacred prostitute was not such, it was Tamar, in disguise, that he wanted to either teach Judah a lesson or, perhaps, recover, having a child, the right to inheritance that was being taken away from him. Actually, if she could not marry anyone and Judah did not fix the promised marriage, her situation was really damaged: neither mother nor wife, it was nothing at that time.
We must admit that Tamar He did not resign himself to being a simple object, nor to his destiny being decided by men, selfish and forgetful, and was able to skip social rules to get what he considered to be owed.
The truth is Tamar She had become pregnant and when her pregnancy was evident, she was accused before Judah, for having fornicated as a widow. But, before being punished, and the punishment was death, she confessed that she had really fornicated and showed the three garments as belonging to the man she had been with.
Judah gave up on making her punish, because without a doubt, if she had sinned, he had previously missed his promise. In the end, Judah turns out to be a good man, though slow with reflexes.
Tamar He gave birth to his twin sons, one of them, Fares, is considered ancestor of King David and Jesus. Our Tamar She was undoubtedly a resource woman and her name was beautiful.
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