What do El Al and Matmid mean?
Dec 10, 2006, 10:07 pm
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What do El Al and Matmid mean?
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Just a quickkie as we say here in Oz...what does 'El Al' & 'Matmid' actually mean; in Hebrew I suspect?
Curious CJ
Just a quickkie as we say here in Oz...what does 'El Al' & 'Matmid' actually mean; in Hebrew I suspect?
Curious CJ
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Dec 11, 2006, 12:59 am
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Literally - "El" means to or towards and "Al" means above or over. So the combination of the words El-Al can mean a lot of things but the common thing that comes to mind is something like "to above" or "to the sky".
"Matmid" is a shortcut of the old name - "Hanose'aa Hamatmid" (הנוסע המתמיד)- which means - the constant (or persistent) traveller. Matmid itself is a verb for persistent behaviour.
"Matmid" is a shortcut of the old name - "Hanose'aa Hamatmid" (הנוסע המתמיד)- which means - the constant (or persistent) traveller. Matmid itself is a verb for persistent behaviour.
Last edited by apirchik; Dec 11, 2006 at 1:52 am
