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概要
- Savannah is not in the Bible and did not begin as a personal name. It is the English word for a wide grassy plain, from the Taíno sabana by way of Spanish.
- Americans began using it as a given name in the nineteenth century. Taíno is a Caribbean language, unknown to the writers of Scripture.
- Open country is everywhere in the Bible and rarely a happy place: Israel’s forty years, Elijah wanting to die, John the Baptist preaching from it, and Jesus driven into it for forty days after his baptism.
- A plain is exposed, without landmarks or shelter, and distances in it are deceptive — which is what a stripped-back season feels like.
- Hosea 2:14 has God say he will lead her into the wilderness on purpose, “and speak tenderly to her.”
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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Savannah (the English word for a grassy plain, ultimately from Taíno sabana; used as a given name in America from the nineteenth century); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Hosea 2:14; Exodus 16; 1 Kings 19:4; Mark 1:12-13; Matthew 3:1).
