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“Only a few years later, in 1874, three men arrived, all at the same time, at a
theory concerning the semicircular canal apparatus, which is even today, broadly
speaking, is correct. These were a general practitioner who is still alive, Dr. Joseph
Breuer in Vienna, Ernst Mach, who died last year, and the American, Crum
Brown, in Philadelphia … these are the founders of the theory of the semicircular
canal apparatus.”
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Thus far from Bárány s lecture of September 1916.
What does the Hebrew language consider as the ear’s major function?

• The Hebrew word for “ear” is ozen. 17
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• Ozen derives from the same root as “balance”: A.Z.N.

There are numerous Hebrew words in the Bible that derive from this root and
relate to balance. Two examples are

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• moznaim: balance, scales for measuring weight; this word appears, with

variations, fifteen times in the Bible (for example, in Lev. 19:36);
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• veizen: “and he weighed” (or “balanced,” Eccles. 12:9).
In other words, according to the ancient biblical Hebrew, and in contemporary
Hebrew as well, the main function of the ear is not hearing but balancing (the
human body), a function that was finally exposed, with much surprise, in the late

years of the nineteenth century!

10.3.3 Eye
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The Hebrew word for “eye,” ayin, has several additional meanings in Hebrew.
One was related earlier: the letter ayin is the seventeenth letter in the Hebrew
alphabet. However, the most common alternative meaning is “a fountain.” In fact,
as shown in chapter 9, many Hebrew nouns that imply “source of water” start
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with the same letter, ayin. These include “cloud” (anan), “fog” (arafel), and
various other synonyms (like av). 22
The major function of the eye is to see. As we realized earlier (with ear), the
Hebrew language occasionally “prefers” to name a body part by its supplementary
invisible function (like “balance” for ear). Thus, according to Hebrew, a major

function of the eye is to be a source of fluid, where water is a main component.
This is indeed bizarre. Any individual can deduce that there is some source in the
eye that allows tears to be formed when a person is in an emotional agitation. But