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MEANING OF THE SUFFIX EZ OR ES:
Posted and written by Jaron J. Cortez
Tuesday, 11/22/2011, 6:10am
To understand the meaning of the suffix of "EZ" and "ES" of last names it first requires us to look back in history of Spain the Iberian Peninsula. We begin with the fact that the word for "Spain" (Iberia) in Hebrew is "Sepharad". Sepharad or Sefer is where the word Sephardic comes from and means "the people of the Holy Book". There are two major types today of what is called Jews in Judaism. One is the Ashkenazi Jew meaning German or Slavic speaking Jews and the other is Sephardic Jew or Spanish speaking or Spanish descent Jews.
Spain the Iberian Peninsula was originally just called "IBERIA" and native people were called "Ibry's" or Iberian's. The Greeks said their native name was Ibry or Iber. Now the root word for Hebrew is "Ibriy" (developed from the old Hebrew words "EBER" and "ABAR"). Now EBER is the great grandson of SHEM, and SHEM is one of the three sons of NOAH. The word Shem or Sem is were we get the word Semitic and Anti-Semitic means hostile against the Hebrew people or in today's meaning "anti-Jewish" or "hostile toward Jews".
The suffix EZ means "Eres Zion" or "of/or from Zion" or "from the land of Jerusalem, Israel". The phrase "Of Zion" is a common phrase though out the Hebrew Bible. Thus the word ZIONISM that refers to the movement both spiritual and political in the modern State of Israel, which is controlled by the Ashkenazi Jews.
So Iberia is one of the old names of modern Spain and means "the land of the Hebrew people" or "the Hebrew's Land" and dates hundreds of years before the common era (BCE) of the Roman Empire/The Roman Catholic Church. Iberia's root meaning also came from both the Ebro River and the Ebro Valley which is on the east side of Spain running north and south. Ebro means Hebrew also.
The children of Israel which are Hebrew through Abraham and Israeli through Abraham's grandson Israel (previously known as Jacob) have been called the "sons of Zion", "daughters of Zion" and the "children of Zion" for thousands of years and throughout the Hebrew Bible. Now the Sephardic, Iberian, Hebrew, Hispanic or the descendants of Spain the Iberian Peninsula are root Hebrews before the Roman Empire and The Roman Catholic Church invaded and started the Spanish Inquisition and Earlier Inquisition.
The Roman Catholic Church renamed it from Iberia to Ezpanna ( a Hebrew/Basque word meaning "the border or land of Yah (God)" and later changed it to Espania. Espania's new meaning is possibly "the Land of Pan". This is referring to the Greek mythical god Pan (or the goat man - the upper part is man and the lower part is a goat) who ruled the mountains and pastures. Today Pan is called the Devil or Satan. The word devil in Hebrew simply means "goat".
During the Inquisitions the land was plagued with torture, killings and war, forcing all the native Hebrews to convert Catholic Christian or die. The blood shed was almost identical to a time in earlier history when Babylon wiped out the land of Yahudah (Judah the southern part of the original Israel). In the book of EIKHAH (LAMENTATION) 4:2, the prophet YermeYahuw (Jeremiah) is describing the horrors of war and destruction and then refers to the Hebrew people as "THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION".
Thus during the new horrors of war and destruction in Spain, the Spanish Hebrews added the suffix EZ meaning ERES ZION to the last names to identify their HEBREW roots for future reference. The meaning was not just "the son of" as writers tell us today, but the meaning was the "PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION". The others who converted to the Catholic Christian religion also added a suffix to the last names and that was "ES", which meant "EREZ SION" or "we are conversos" or "we are of the new testament Catholic Church". This was to avoid further inquisitions in the lives. Some hid under the disguise of pretending to be converted but was secretly keeping the Hebrew laws and teachings, these were called "Crypto Jews" meaning hidden Hebrews.
Now the surname (last name) "PEREZ is an ancient Hebrew (now Hispanic) name which means "break forth from the womb". Perez is one of Yahudah's (Judah's) twin sons. Here is the lineage of Abraham. Abraham's son was Isaac (one of many sons), Isaac's son was Israel (twin to Esau and previously known as Jacob), Israel's 4th son was Judah (one of 12 sons-the 12 tribes of Israel, from 4 wives), and Judah's son was Perez (also spelled Pharez/s and twin to Zarah). Perez today is an ancient Spanish name. In Hebrew the surname Perez is spelled Perets, the "ts" in Hebrew is translated as a "Z", and pronounced "PEREZ".
So Sanchez means "the holy ones of Zion", Rodriguez means "the power and wealth of Zion", "Florez means the flower of Zion", Mendez means "to mend or repair the breach or rebuild the old ways of Zion", Cortez means "the court of Zion" or "the laws of God".
This is all part of a book that I have been researching and writing titled,
"THE HEBREW HISPANIC HISTORY". If you search you can find more of my writings for the past ten years on the internet. For more information or questions just contact me. I welcome all comments.
May Yah bless you and help you on you quest for truth,
Yaron Yahudah Cortez
benjudahlion@yahoo.com
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