[b-hebrew] resource material was chalal-perforate/pierce?

K Randolph kwrandolph at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 00:11:05 EDT 2007


Isaac:

Maybe we use all these dictionaries because they are more accurate
than our speculations.

There are several words that have a chet preceding a lamedh, among
them XWL meaning to turn about vigorously, as in dancing, XYL to be
forceful, XLH to be soft (XLH the bread is probably connected with
softness, as in soft bread), XLL to pierce, bore a hole, as in making
a flute, XLL to make common, as in bringing into production, also used
to say that something is unimportant, even thought little of in
contrast to something that is set apart, special QD$ (I found this
interesting as the New Testament makes the exact same use of koinos
and hagios).

That there are greatly differing meanings to similar sounding words
unpredictable as to their meanings is common in languages, and
Biblical Hebrew is no exception.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 9/7/07, Isaac Fried <if at math.bu.edu> wrote:
> Bryant,
>
> It is not clear to me why we should use all these dictionaries, where
> we can use better, and to our greater advantage, our own brain.
> I looked up TWOT and saw that he suggests that XALAH [of the famous
> rhyme: I baked a little xalah, I baked it by myself, I put it in the
> oven, I put it on the shelf,...] is some kind of bagel or pretzel
> since its name implies that it is 'pierced'.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:
>
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > Besides, BDB, I also use the following:
> >
> > 1)    William Holladay, *A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of
> > the Old
> > Testament,* Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
> > 1971.
> > Originally published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands.
> >
> > 2)    R. Laird Harris, Editor; Gleason L. Archer, Bruce K. Waltke,
> > Associate
> > Editors, *Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament,* 2 Volumes,
> > Chicago: Moody
> > Press, 1980.
> >
> > In fact, regarding the issue of "chalal" versus "kalal," I would
> > refer to TWOT,
> > Vol. 1, page 288, "Halal."
> >
> > Rev. Bryant J. Williams III


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