[b-hebrew] Lion in Hebrew: lexical development question

A. Philip Brown II philipbrown at apbrown2.net
Tue Mar 28 22:02:50 EST 2006


I'm curious if anyone knows why or has a theory as to why Hebrew
developed/acquired a relatively large number of lexemes for 'lion.'

)RY, GWR, KPYR, LB), LBYH, LY$, $XL, which omits two feminine lemmas listed
by HALOT.

Are there any studies on these synonyms? Semantic field analyses? 

Philip Brown
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