Tanach Trivia

Perhaps some people here in the CR can help me with this. I had asked a question last week about the 4 words that end in “oh” that have a hey instead of vav. I got that question from a note in my tikkun on the word “hamono” in the haftorah for Shabbos Chol HaMoed Sukkos. The note didn’t say what the others were. AYC mentioned “Ahalo” and Mod-42 hinted at “leicho”.

I checked my tikkun by the word “leicho” in Chasan Torah and there was a note there that it is one of 16 words like it, “yaro yiyare”, “ga’o ga’ah”, “ra’o panecho”, f’rao Aharon”, etc.

I think that the note by hamono was the shita mikubetzes and the one by leicho was teh minchas shai.

I had also remembered a similar not in one of the haftorah’s of the 3 weeks, I checked that one which said that throughout Yirmiya the word “kulo” is spelled with a hey.

There are also a bunch of names like this, Shlomo, Paroh, Shilo, etc.

I also remember seeing the word “t’vuaso” spelled with a hey somewhere.

I assume the difference between the 4 and the 16 has something to do with the dikduk of the word, but I still don’t know what the other 3 are. Perhaps “ahalo”, “t’vuaso”, and “kulo” count. I think “ahalo’ sounds more like the same type of word since it means “his…”

Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Plenty of words end with an “Oh” with a Hei. The issue I believe is where there should be a Mapik in the Hey and a Kamatz but instead there is a Cholam before the Hei. I believe “Veniscoh” in Rosh Chodesh Leining is one of them. Just a guess.

137 years old:

Levi (Shmos 6:16)

Amrom (Shmos 6:20)

Yishmael (Breishis 25:17)

good one, Toi!

Sorry I never got back with these answers:

1. Which word appears three times in a row in Tanach (there are a few answers, 2 of which have a slight change)?

2. Which two words appear 3 times consecutively in Tanach?

1. ayc was right with Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh (Yishayahu 6:3), but also Ava Ava Ava Asimena (Yechezkel 21:32). The following two have slight changes in their structure “Eretz Eretz Aretz (Yirmiyahu 22:29) and M’dinah M’dinah UM’dinah (Esther 8:9)

2. Heichal Hashem, Heichal Hashem, Heichal Hashem (Yirmiyahu 7:4)

I’m sure it’s a little of both.

Any new questions, anyone?

Another one (and a bump for the last one):

How many couples in Tanach can you list in which both husband’s and wife’s names start with the same letter?

(There are at least 5.)

husband’s and wife’s names start with the same letter:(I’ll do alephs for this one as well!)

-???? & ???????

-???? & ?????

-???? & ??????

aharon and elisheva

achashveirosh and esther

if i think of more, ill let you know

Chanie: It’s a Machlokes in the Midrashim (and the Minhagim by Leining Parshas Bereishis) whether Na’amah married Noach or not.

Sam2: I was unaware that it is a Machlokes. My source’s are Rashi in ?????? ??? ?? ???? ? where he brings down a ?????? ???. The actual source is ?????? ??? ?? ?. There is also a Zohar that brings down that ???? ??? ??. The mekor is ??? ?? ??. Could you please tell me who disagrees, and I didn’t understand what you meant by “and the Minhagim by Leining Parshas Bereishis”. Thanks.

1. Which person lived the longest amount of years on Earth? Even surpassing ??????’s 969 years lifespan.

2. Which women was the oldest person to give birth from the beginning of time to the present? Hint: It is not ??? or ?????.

Chanie: It’s not Serach Bas Asher. I once did the math and if you assume she’s the woman from Tekoa you’re still over 100 years short of Mesushelach.

If you assume Noach didn’t have kids until he was 500 then probably his wife.

One more couple nobody mentioned:

?????? ?? ??? and ????

There may be more but that’s all I remember at the moment

????????

Another couple in which both husband’s and wife’s names start with the same letter:

Eisav and Ada

Wow, I guess that last one was so hard that everyone gave up.

I think the person who asked the question might not be around anymore (in the CR that is), but I guess the older posters can tell you if that’s true or not.