Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Scapegoat Whose Name Was Azarel

Scapegoat Whose Name Was Azarel
2007.05.09 1:40

These three days and nights I was completely occupied by the word Azazel. That itself is a good thing. I am a teacher and recently I've been trying to learn Bible. What I was wondering was what Azazel means. According to several sources, azazel means the place where the feast of expiation or Yom Kippur, Day of Attonement was took place, or the goat itself that was sent to the field alive so that it can flee, or the guardian of goat to whom the goat was sent.
Aaron needed two goats, one is for Jehovah and the other is for Azazel, when he needed to name the name of god-like being the name had better be named after the goat that will be sent to this being. Therefore the name of god-like being to which the goat will be sent was named Azarel which means goat that departs. So the name of goat that sent was scapegoat, and the the name of god-like being that the scapegoat was sent to was Azarel that also means goat that departs. It is no hard for them to call the name of the place Azarel, because there is where goat that departs.
Taking everything binto consideration, all three names are the same origin. We tend to think there were many in the fields, but probably one goat Azarel was walking in the field called Azarel to be offerred to the name of God Azarel.
The etymological meaning of Azarel was all the same -scapegoat.

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