the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

עצימ

Based on the root yex, meaning “tree”, plus the anthropomorphizing suffix im, 'yexim' literally means “the Tree People”.

Another o=word for “tree” is aleh, which is the root word for alehim, so it seems that both yexim and alehim are literally “the tree people” and therefore it seems that yexim is another name for the Alehim. ¹⁾

The word appears 71 times throughout the ancient Hebrew texts. The first appearance is in Genesis 22, a story typically understood as “Abraham sacrifices his son”.

Other stories associate the yexim with the arorim²⁾ (the Enchanted Ones), the amexaim³⁾ (the Found Ones)

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