Shallom the main character means peace?

[Noblesse Oblige [KG] ⳩]

Off google:
"used as salutation by Jews at meeting or parting, meaning ‘peace’"

[Mawhrin-Skel]

Hey Shallom isn't the main character, he's just from one of the (many!) short stories the author has written :)

[Noblesse Oblige [KG] ⳩]

Does his name mean peace as per above?

[EoLynn]

Maybe it's just a typo, he wanted to write "Shallow".

Or was it for "Shallom Spice...'?

[de Havilland]

Hi.

Sometimes names are coincidental, sometimes names have a deeper meaning. Shallom is a character who has shaped in some small way the 'future of things to come' but he is not a major character of the game.

Shallom wasn't a pirate for pirating sake. He had a purpose. And a dream. It was a good dream, peace forged from war and destruction. To him the end justified the means.

There will be other characters who agree with Shallom and others that don't agree with that line of logic.

This will create conflict.

[Mathias]

I really need to start reading up on your story work John. Wish I had more time, currently only audio books fit into my schedule :/

[de Havilland]

Well my Elite:Dangerous novel 'And Here The Wheel' is in audiobook too - the 'author edition' as I like to dub it: https://fantasticbooksstore.com/store/audio-books/elite-and-here-the-wheel-mp3/

[Noblesse Oblige [KG] ⳩]

Well then. If shallom (the jewish meaning) means peace we may have a good guy that wants to save the universe. But yes as I understand it shallom can have many meanings in jewish.

[Xena Warrior Woman]

This is an interesting discussion, but a few pointers might add to this topic:

@KG - "But yes as I understand it shallom can have many meanings in jewish."

I think you mean Hebrew. Jewish isn't a language. It's descriptive label (adjective) for an ethnicity.

Jewish:(adjective) "Relating to, associated with, or denoting Jews or Judaism."

vs.

Hebrew: (noun)

1. a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham.

2. the Semitic language of the Hebrews, in its ancient or modern form.

Hebrew: (adjective)

1. of the Hebrews or the Jews.

2. of or in Hebrew.


Note well: the Hebrew word "shalom" (exclamation) to which you refer only has ONE L.

Shalom:

(Exclamation)

used as salutation by Jews at meeting or parting, meaning “peace.”

Thus, while it may SOUND the same, the spelling probably is a tip-off that it doesn't share the same meaning.

Consider, for example, "brake" and "break" which sound the exactly same, but denote completely different ideas.

As others have pointed out, the spelling could be serendipitous, like a typo.
Also, people who need to come up with a bunch of names (such as people who write fiction) use a name generator which spits out names randomly. It's not unusual for it to generate names that sound like words in popular use. It happens... It's an intriguing idea that whomever wrote this may have settled on this name bc it sounded like the expression.

Hope this info is interesting...

[de Havilland]

The name was definitely not spat out of a name generator. I've never used one and never will. I choose all character names myself.

[Noblesse Oblige [KG] ⳩]

Xena you are of course correct when it comes to me not using Hebrew instead of Jewish. I apologise. The name escaped me at the time. If de Havilland does not use a name generator. I assume that he knew full well that this name with one extra L meant peace or one or other of its other meanings. Perhaps he used a thesaurus or perhaps it was a name that he was familliar with that suited his purposes. This could mean that all the other characters also will have hidden meanings describing their goals.

[MeatPopsicle]

Or it could be coincidence?

[Noblesse Oblige [KG] ⳩]

Is your name a co-incidence? ;)

[MeatPopsicle]

I don't see the correlation. Coincidence that the name Shallom is similar to Shalom - that's got nothing to do with the choice of my steam handle.