[Avodah] Titles Before Names

[Zev Sero]

Yitzhak Grossman wrote:
> Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>> I'm not sure how the alufei benei Eisav are relevent. There the chiefs 
>> aren't named. "Aluf Teiman" names who the person was aluf of, and not
>> calling Teiman the aluf.
> 
> That's certainly not the plain meaning of the text; the names of the
> Alufim correspond (more or less) to those named earlier as the sons and
> grandsons of Esav.

And the names of the Nesi'im ("Nesi Yehudah", "Nesi Yisachar", etc.)
correspond to those named earlier as the sons (natural or adopted) of
Yaacov.  But that isn't relevant to whether a person's titles go before
or after his name; it's "Nachshon ben Aminadav, Nesi Yehudah", not
"Nesi Yehudah Nachshon ben Aminadav", let alone "Nasi Nachshon".

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