Parashat Masei

Ramses – Raamses or Rameses = “child of the sun”; departed 1st month on 15th day of the month, after the Passover;

Succoth – “booths”

Etham – “with them: their plowshare”; 3 day journey and pitched in Marah

Pi-hahiroth – “place where sedge grows”

Migdol – “tower”

Marah – “bitter”

Elim – “palms”; 12 springs; 70 date palms

Dophkah – “knocking”

Alush – “I will knead (bread)”

Rephidim – “rests” or “stays” or “resting places”

Sinai – Wilderness — “thorny”

Kibroth-hattaavah – “graves of lust”

Hazeroth – “settlement”

Rithmah – “heath”

Rimmon-perez – “pomegranate of the breach”

Libnah – “pavement”

Rissah – “ruin”

Kehelathah – “assembly”

Shepher – “beauty”

Haradah – “fear”

Makheloth – “place of assembly”

Tahath – “station”

Terah – “station”

Mithkah – “sweetness”

Hashmonah – “fatness”

Moseroth – Mosera or Moseroth = “bonds”

Bene-jaakan – “sons of twisting”

Hor-hagidgad – “cavern of Gidgad”

Jotbathah – Jotbath or Jotbathah = “pleasantness”

Abronah – Ebronah = “passage”

Ezion-geber – “backbone of a man”

Zin (Wilderness) – “flat”; which is Kadesh – “holy”

Mt. Hor – “mountain” / Edge of Edom – Aaron died here; 123 years old

Zalmonah – “shady”

Punon – “darkness”

Oboth – border of Moab – “waterskins”

Ijeabarim – “ruins of Abarim”

Dibon-gad – “wasting”

Almon-diblathaim – “concealing the two cakes”

Nebo “prophet” – Mountains of Abarim – “regions beyond”

Plains of Moab – “of his father”, by Jordan – “descender” near Jericho – “its moon”

Beth-jeshimoth – “house of the desolation” – unto Abel-shittim – “meadow of acacias”