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Actually, Jebus was the name of Jerusalem before the Israelites took it over. It was the home of the Jebusites.
Look it up.
EDIT: Here. I looked it up for you.
quote: 4 David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). The Jebusites who lived there 5 said to David, "You will not get in here." Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
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Actually digging_holes, I believe he was referring to the Simpsons, where Homer makes a plea to Jebus (Jesus), or maybe our own Jebus. But I'm fairly certain that the net popularity of Jebus is based on that misspoken plea from the Simpsons rather than pre-Israelite Jerusalem. But hey, what do I know, I didn't even know the Jerusalem thing.
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Right...I also heard a rumor that in one printing of the Bible (don't know which) Jesus was mispelled as Jebus in one passage.
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How "Yivoos" becomes "Jebus" escapes me . . . but then, so do most of the translations of Hebrew names to English. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Likely so. But I still have never understood the how/why of it. With sounds that have no English equivalent (a chet, for example), I understand choosing the closest analog. But why do all the vavs become "b"s instead of "v"s? And the soft vowels become hard ones?
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Because the english language is stupid? I mean, we can translate things however we want when it is taken from a language with out a similar chatacter set. However, us stupid english still make it hard on ourselves. Take Tsunami or Qatar, both could be spelled phonetically, yet no.
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No, I was referring back to the verses from Chronicles I that holes cited above. The name of the city is Yivoos, or Jebus.
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While searching for random threads, that may have an ego-stroking reference to myself in it, I stumbled across this one. I'm afraid I'm going to have agree with Foust on this one. The episode in which homer shouts for Jebus to save him did result in much laughter for me when I first saw it. But that was a long time ago, and now I have matured enough to see the not-so-fine line between the golden age of simpsons and the newer ones, such as the episode in which Homer becoems a missionary and makes the plea to Jebus that I have already mentioned.
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There are two lines that the Simpsons crossed.
First, the Who Shot Mr. Burns story. I remember watching that, and thinking "Something's wrong here." But I couldn't put my finger on it. I chocked it up to that being a gimic episode.
I also remember the episode where Lisa has a crush on Nelson. I remember thinking "This isn't like any other Simpsons episode I've ever seen..."
It was like somebody flipped the quality switch to "suck."
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Actually, it's because "ts" is not an initial sound in English, and many English-speakers have difficulty using it as such.
My eldest's name starts with "Tz" (same phoneme as "ts"), as does the name of the daughter of a friend of mine. My friend came up with the following phrase when our daughters were babies, to help non-Hebrew/Yiddish speakers pronounce her daughter's name (and I co-opted a variant for my use as well): "Itsy bitsy Tzeena!"
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