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🏷 Bible name · Semitic · hidden ruler · pun · name — by Gerry · Dec 2020 · 1676
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David is one of the most prominent Bible characters, and a very

popular name among cryptocrats & commoners alike. Like all
Biblical characters, his stories are constructed on puns with his name.
The central pun is hard to find though, because it puns with Davey,
not David. The clue is David’s battle with Goliath: Since Goliath puns
with “heaped up” & “revealed”, we can conclude that David, as
Davey, must pun with dwy deway for “weak”, and with ṭwy ṭawiy
for “concealed”. To the spooks, concealing always wins over
revealing!!!

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Contents

1 David’s puns in a nutshell

2 David as pun with dwy for “weak”
3 David as pun with ṭwy for “rolled-in” & “concealed”
4 David as pun with ṭwy for “spider”
5 David as pun with dwy for “spying”
6 David as pun with ydwy for “hurling”

David’s puns in a nutshell

David is written as ‫ דוד‬dwd, and in a few instances as ‫ דויד‬dwyd. The
“strong” letters in David are the 2 Ds. The Waw is here used for a V
phoneme, so it’s “semi-strong”. Overall, the name is very “fuzzy”, so we
have to rely on the story to find the David puns. It seems there are 2
categories:

1. Most David puns consist of words that are written with two Ds like
David, plus “weak” letters.
2. However, quite a few puns only have a single D, or a Ṭet, plus the V
written with Waw or Bet (B-V-W puns). You could say these are all
Davey puns, as the 2nd D is missing. They can still be confirmed
though, because they all perfectly match elements in David’s story.
(Plus, you could always slap on a grammar T suffix.)

These are the puns:

David is chosen as the new king, because ‫ ידיד‬ydyd means

“chosen”.
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David is liked & loved by both Saul & Jonathan, because ‫ דוד‬dwd
means “friend” & “lover”. ‫ ידיד‬ydyd also means “befriended” &
“beloved”, in addition to “chosen”. This is the official explanation
of the name.

David is involved in tragic love, perhaps because ‫ דוב‬dwb means

“pining away” & “suffering” (a B-V-W pun).

David is specifically grieving over losing Jonathan, and later his

son, because ‫ דוי‬dwy means “grieving” & “mourning”.

David is a musician playing the harp, perhaps because ‫ הדד‬hdd

means “resounding” & “echo”.

David is portrayed as smart, perhaps because ‫ חדוד‬ḥdwd means

“sharp” & “acute”. It also means “deception”, which is one
reason the spooks love this name. (Saul often “has a spear in his
hand” when watching David, because ḥdwd for “sharpening” was
also a euphemism for “wanking”.)

David feigns to be crazy at Achish’s court, because Aramaic ‫דוד‬

dwd means “confused” & “insane”. (Saul likewise goes to Ramah
to get “David”, and then gets “insane”, which is the same word.)

David is an expert spy, sneaking up to Saul and stealing items off

his body several times, because ‫ דוי‬dwy means “spying”. This is
also one reason the spooks love this name.

David uses a slingshot, because ‫ ידוי‬ydwy / ‫ ידה‬ydh means

“throwing” & “hurling” (from yd for “hand”).

David is contrasted as weak to the giant Goliath, because ‫ דוי‬dwy

means “weak” (see Goliath). This word is not the best choice (it
actually means “sickly”), so it’s a clue to the spook pun!

David is winning when paired with Goliath in the spook parable

beneath, because Arabic ‫ طﻮي‬ṭwy means “rolled shut” &
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“concealed”. By contrast, Goliath loses the spook contest, because

‫ גלה‬glh means “rolled open & “revealed” (see Goliath). Not only
are the figurative meanings of “concealing” vs. “revealing” a clear
contrast, but even the literal meanings match: Both are derived from
“rolling”. The “concealing” pun is likely the main reason why
spooks love this name.

To confirm this, David is rescued by a spider in a non-Biblical

story, because Hebrew ‫ טוי‬ṭwy means “spider” & “spinning”. It’s
the exact same spelling as Arabic ‫ي‬ َ ṭwy for “rolling up” &
َ ‫ط ِﻮ‬
“folding”, and the words are officially related. That’s the final clue
for the main spook pun!

David as pun with dwy for “weak”

David & Goliath are one of the most famous Biblical stories. Their epic
battle has been depicted in countless works of art. The 2 very obviously
form an opposing pair: David is small & weak, Goliath is large &
strong. On the surface, this tells us that the little guy can win, which is
nice. For the ancient spook authors, it must have been a pun though. But
which one?

Since the contrast between the small David and the huge Goliath is so
central to the story, we would expect that the authors of the parable
would give them punny names, e.g. “Mr. Small” & “Mr. Big”. And
indeed the authors did just that, but with a twist: The names David &
Goliath pun with the words ‫ דוי‬dwy deway for “weak” & “sick”, and ‫גל‬
gl gal for “heap”. But these are rather obscure words, which don’t fit
the story too well: dwy only means “weak” in the sense of “weakened”
& “sick”, not being weaker because you are smaller. And gl only means
generally being “great” & “bulky” in Arabic, as jl. In Hebrew, the
corresponding word gl only means “heap” & “pile”, not used for
persons.

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Hebrew, Aramaic dwy = weak, miserable, sick

‫ דוי‬dwy : to be weak; to be weak or miserable;to feel sorry for;

to weaken, to tire someone out; to afflict; to be miserable or
weakened — Aramaic (CAL)

‫ דוי‬dwy : illness, sickness — Hebrew (Klein)

‫ דוי‬dwy : to drip, melt away; to mourn, repine; to be afflicted; to

afflict — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דוי‬dwy : sad, depressed — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דוי‬dwy : grief, affliction — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דויאית‬dwyˀyt : wretchedly — Aramaic (CAL)

Arabic, Hebrew jl, gl = great, bulk, heap

‫ َﺟ ّﻞ‬jl jall : great; bulky; outstanding — Arabic (Wikt)

‫ גל‬gl gal : heap, wave, billow, rock pile, ruins; From galal:
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung
— Old Hebrew (Strong)

David as pun with ṭwy for “rolled-in” &

“concealed”
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…but both these curious name choices for David & Goliath are clues:

In David’s case, the pun with dwy for “weak” is evidence that the
authors used very fuzzy homonyms with only a single D. It’s not a
David pun, but a Davey pun.
In Goliath’s case, the etymology of the pun word gl for “heap” gives
away the real spook pun: gl for “heap” is officially derived from gll
/ glh for “things rolled up”.

This leads us to the spooky puns used in the veiled parable underneath:

In Goliath’s case, that’s easy: gll / glh for “rolling” also means
“revealing” & “discovery”, derived from “unrolling”. No wonder
Goliath is the big bad enemy: Revealing their nefarious corruption is
the worst thing that the spook aristocrats can imagine!!!
In David’s case, we have to search a bit longer, to find the pun in
Arabic: There, ṭwy means “rolling in”, and by derivation
“concealing”. No wonder David is the glorified hero: Concealing
organized top-level corruption is what spookery is all about!!!

As a confirmation that we found the right puns, we got a perfect

contrast: Not only are the meanings “revealing” & “concealing” perfect
antonyms, and both central to spookery. But both are also derived from
“rolling”, so they are even antonyms in their literal meanings.

Arabic ṭwy = roll up, fold, conceal, disappear

‫ي‬ َ ṭwy ṭawiya : to be folded, to be rolled up

َ ‫ط ِﻮ‬ — Arabic (Wikt)

َ ṭwyʰ ṭawiyya : fold, crease; (figurative) inner, place where

‫ط ِﻮﯾّﺔ‬
one tucks away aught, conscience — Arabic (Wikt)

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‫ ِطﯿﱠﺔ‬ṭyʰ ṭiyya : mode of folding, manner of creasing; intention,

plan; destination, whither one intends to go — Arabic (Wikt)

َ ṭwˀ ṭawā : to fold, to roll up, to crease; to conclude, to

‫ط َﻮى‬
finish, to seal; to cache, to put away, to conceal; to intend, to be
destined to, to be committed towards; to persevere in, to suffer, to
resign oneself to — Arabic (Wikt)

َ ‫ اِ ْﻧ‬ˀnṭwˀ inṭawā : to be folded, to be rolled up; to be

‫ﻄ َﻮى‬
concealed, to be cached; to vanish, to disappear; to involve, to
integrate, to entail, to pose, to conceive in itself; to be withdrawn,
to be shut-in, to be a loner, to keep to oneself; to be reserved; to be
introverted, to be an autist — Arabic (Wikt)

Hebrew, Aramaic gl = roll, roll back, unfold, uncover, discover,

reveal

‫ גלל‬gll : to roll; rolled, rolled away; wrapped; rolled up; unrolled,

unfolded; removed — Hebrew (Klein)

‫ גלי‬gly : to uncover; to open; to show, reveal; to bring to light; to

declare; to reveal (secrets, revelations); to uncover; to be visible;
to be naked — Aramaic (CAL)

David as pun with ṭwy for “spider”

One non-Biblical story pairs David with a spider: The spider spins its
web over a cave entrance and helps to hide David from Saul’s soldiers.
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But the Hebrew root for “spinning” & “spider” is ṭwy — exactly the
same spelling as Arabic ṭwy for “rolled-in”, just using a different
alphabet. The words are even officially related: Obviously, humans
“spin” a thread by “rolling” it. That’s more confirmation that ṭwy is the
intended pun for the David & Goliath story.

Hebrew, Aramaic ṭwy = spinning, spider

‫ טוי‬ṭwy : spinning, that which is spun — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ טויא‬ṭwyˀ : spinning animals, spiders — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ טוה‬ṭwh : to spin, spun; Akkadian tāmu (= to spin), Arabic

tawa(y) (= he folded, wound), Aramaic ‫ =( מַ ְטוַיְ תָ א‬spider), Ethiopic
ṭawaya (= he turned, twisted). — Hebrew (Klein)

‫ מטווה‬mṭwwh : spider, i.e. “spinner” — Aramaic (CAL)

David as pun with dwy for “spying”

In 2 instances David sneaks up to his arch-nemesis Saul, without Saul
noticing, and snatches items off his body as proof. This happens in 1
Samuel 24:4 and 1 Samuel 26:12. This is an obvious repetition. I think
the ancient spook authors liked the idea, because they felt that David
puns with dwy for “spying”.

Hebrew, Aramaic dwy = look, spy

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‫ דוי‬dwy : to look out for, espy — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דוי‬dwy : to look out — Aramaic (CAL)

David as pun with ydwy for “hurling”

One reason that David uses a slingshot in the story is a pun with ‫ידוי‬
ydwy for “throwing” & “hurling”. (This word isn’t used though, the
used word qlˁ may be a contextual pun.)

Hebrew, Aramaic ydy = throw, hurl, cast

‫ ידוי‬ydwy : throwing, hurling — Hebrew (Klein)

‫ ידה‬ydh : to throw, hurl, cast — Hebrew (Klein)

‫ בנת אידא‬bnt ˀydˀ : sling-stones — Aramaic (CAL)

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