Machmad
"Machmed" or machmadim or מַחְמָד machmad[1] is a Hebrew word meaning "desirable," "lovely," or "precious things," which found the Old Testament. [2] To understand the word spelled MemChetMemDalet we need to understand that it is from the Hebrew root word ChetMemDalet חָמַד chamad which is the word meaning covet.
Arabic and Hebrew
To write "Machmed" in Hebrew, it would be: מַחְמָד (using the Hebrew letters Mem, Chet, Mem, Dalet).
In Arabic some will say it is the word for Muhammad .
Claims about Machmed and Muhammad
Some Muslim claims suggest the Hebrew machmadim in Song of Solomon refers to Muhammad, based on phonetic similarity and interpretations of the root meaning "praise," but biblical scholars and Jewish/Christian traditions reject this, pointing to the word's common meaning as "delightful things" or "treasures" and the clear context of King Solomon in that poetic book.
Muhammad was not an Arabic name at the time Muhammad supposedly lived in 570 to 8th of June 632 CE because of the lack of vowels at that time and the word is not rooted in meaning "praise" but rather to covet.
Whoever lived the he was eventually given the name Muhammad and is claimed to have been a religious, military, and political leader and the founder of Islam which is a militant, political, and religious movement but would not qualify as "Pure Religion".
Islam is said to recognize Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets but an examination of many of their teachings do not seem to follow and are even contradictory to The Way of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.
Footnotes
- ↑ 04261 מַחְמָד machmad makh-mawd’ from 02530 חָמַד chamad meaning covet; n m; [BDB-326b] {See TWOT on 673 @@ "673d" } {See TWOT on 673 @@ "673e" } AV-pleasant thing 4, pleasant 3, desire 3, goodly 1, lovely 1, beloved 1; 13
- 1) desire, desirable thing, pleasant thing
- See machmad
- ↑ Machmad
- 1 Kings 20:6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant <04261> in thine eyes, they shall put [it] in their hand, and take [it] away.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly <04261> vessels thereof.
- Song of Solomon 5:16 "His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely <maḥămaddîm; מַחֲּמַדִּ֑ים>. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."
- Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things <04261> are laid waste.
- Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things <04261>: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.
- Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things <04261> for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
- Lamentations 2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant <04261> to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
- Ezekiel 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire <04261> of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
- Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire <04261> of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 24:25 Also, thou son of man, [shall it] not [be] in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire <04261> of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
- Hosea 9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant <04261> [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.
- Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved <04261> [fruit] of their womb.
- Joel 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things <04261>: