A quick look at Ezra 5/6 would show that it probably is a genuine word; AFAIK, the word Rav/Rebbi was not in use in his time, and Zecharia is Zecharia bar Adu. (And no, I don't know tanach very well, I just happened to look this up this week).
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Okay, here's one I've wondered about for a long time. It probably<br>
comes from reading too many matzeivos and yahrzeit plaques:<br><br>Is "bar" (=son) a genuine and original Aramaic word, or did it come<br>to Aramaic from Hebrew from the rashei teivos of "ben rabi"?<br>
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