English Word
STUBBORN
Edenic Word
(Nee)TS’BaH
Hebrew Word
נצבה
Transliteration
Noon-Tsadi-Bet-Hey
Pronounciation
(NEE)TSIB-BAH
Conversion
[TS-B → ST-B]
Meaning
standing firm
Roots
The dictionaries have trouble with STUB and
STUBBLE, which they connect to the theoretical Indo-European root (s)teu
(to push, stick, knock, beat). They are addressing the sense of
"stubbing" one's toe. Middle English stoborne (stubborn) ought
to connect to STUB, but the authorities are not sure how to do so.
A ticket STUB and STUBBLE in the field is that which STUBBORNLY
remains firm after cutting or harvesting.
The STUBBORN Hebrews have a two-letter צ-ב Tsadi-Bet/ TS-B root of standing firm. This is seen in נצב NeeTSahBH
(standing - Genesis18:2), root נצב NeeTSaBH (handle, hilt - Judges3:22), and
נציב NiTSeeYBH
(column, the “pillar” of salt that Lot’s wife was petrified into in Genesis
19:26). More lasting architecture at STABLE. Closer to the emotionality of STUBBORNESS
are נצב NeeTSBaH
(resoluteness, steadfastness) and
יתיצב Yi(S)YaTSayBH
(to "stand up to" someone or to stubbornly oppose them - Deuteronomy
7:24).
Branches
OBSTINATE may belong here with Tsadi-Bet
resiliency, instead of being placed with STABILITY and STU(M)P (nasalized
STUBBLE) at an Indo-European “root” called sta (to stand). These physically
enduring ST-B words are from the Tsadi-Bet sub-root. YaTSaBH is the
formal verb meaning “to set or stand up.” See "MASTABA" and STABLE. Latin stabilis
means “standing firm” and stipula is a (sturdy) stalk or stem.
Deuteronomy 29:9 is insufficiently translated as “standing.” Ni TSaBH iM conveys the endurance, the stubborn
stability of the eternal people, not merely their being in a vertical
position.
In the STUMP,
or remaining tree trunk that stubbornly persists, there is a nasalized (extra
M) added to the Tsadi-Bhet. STUMP is from Middle Low German stump, a
cognate of STAFF (stick), STALAG, STAMP. STAMPEDE, STAPLE and STOOP at the IE
“root” stebh (post, stem, to support,place firmly on, fasten). The P of
STUMP is from a bilabial shift of the Bhet/B. The same bilabial shift from a
Bhet to an F is seen in STIFF.
STIFF is
another form of stubborn resistance … all from our Tsadi-Bhet sub-root.
Reversing to Bet-Tsadi: BeTSeR means strength, related to
fortification words.
For
Bet-Tsadi instability, the built-in opposite of Tsadi-Bet/TS-B, see BoaTS
(mud, mire - Jeremiah38:22 ) at PITCH.
Bible Verses
Genesis 18:2 וישׂא עיניו וירא והנה שׁלשׁה אנשׁים נצבים עליו וירא וירץ לקראתם מפתח האהל וישׁתחו ארצה׃
“and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed down to the earth,”
Strong
(5324)
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