The Word Jedi

Found this on the net, was just wondering what you guys think of this?
Is there any hint of truth behind it or not?

The name Jedi (Djedhi) is derived from the Hebrew (Phoenician) name Yedidya, or more commonly Jedidiah- meaning beloved of the Lord, friend of God.

I've seen a lot of stuff like this, I think that "Jedi" does appear in hebrew quite a bit

but the origin comes from Japanese, from my memory.

Hmmm interesting.

Got any links or anything?

tbh, I just googled it, lol

nothing substantial

Someone else had brought this up, recently, and this was my reply to it.

soya wrote: With only my basic understanding of Hebrew, and some internet searches, I got the following.



Jedi, obviously isn't Hebrew, the same as Jesus and Joshua, and Judas, they're English variants of the Hebrew language.



Jedidiah (Yedidya) means "Beloved of God"

So on that Jedi only means "Beloved of God" if it's used as a short name for Jedidiah.


The word Jedi (Yadaee or Yedaai Yeddaey) would be "yeda" for knowledge

When Yeda is stuck with ee or ai or ey it denotes what would be "man of knowledge"

I'm not exactly sure why the ee/ai/ey turns it into that, since "adam" is man, and it would seem like "yedadama" should be "man of knowledge", but that's the way it is..