[b-hebrew] )BL Mistranslated at I Samuel 6: 18

K Randolph kwrandolph at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 16:44:54 EST 2009


Jim:

First of all, we are talking about Hebrew, not Canaanite.

Secondly, )BL, alternate spelling )WBL, is found in 14 verses in Tanakh: as
early as Numbers before Israel crossed the Jordan, also in Judges, Samuel
and Kings as well as Daniel.

Third, do not confuse this noun with a participle concerning the action of
water flowing, as you did with two mentions in Isaiah.

Fourthly, I asked you, where do you get your strange definition, and you did
not answer me. You did not get it from studying the text of Hebrew.

Finally, the cities that were the conquests were in Judea, in the hill
country, not in the north which were under the control of Jeroboam,
Shisherka’s (Thutmosis III) puppet.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:16 PM, <JimStinehart at aol.com> wrote:

>  Karl:
>
>
>
> You wrote:  “Where )BL, alternate spelling )WBL, is clearly defined, it
> refers to a
> watercourse, such as an irrigation ditch or stream bed. It has nothing to
> do
> with pastureland (except to water it). With this being the case, your
> equation makes no sense.”
>
>
>
> The word )WBL, and its variant )BL, only appear in the late Book of Daniel,
> and they are talking about a river way out in Mesopotamia.  Daniel 8: 2,
> 3, 6  Most scholars do not see this word as being the same as )BL that is
> used 12 times in the Bible as the first word in Canaanite geographical place
> names.
>
>
>
> )WBL and its shortened form )BL, meaning “river”, may be related to YBL,
> which means “watercourse” or “stream”.  Isaiah 30: 25;  44: 4
>
>
>
> By sharp contrast, the Canaanite word )BL is not talking about a river or a
> stream, but rather is talking about “excellent pastureland” or “meadow”,
> such as Abel-Beth-Maacah or the Sorek Valley.  That Canaanite word )BL is
> the same as the Egyptian letters JBR, which reference the Elah Valley, the
> Sorek Valley, the Aijalon Valley, and Abel-Beth-Maacah on the Thutmosis III
> list.  JBR/)BL is referencing a meadowland, not a river.
>
>
>
> Jim Stinehart
>
> Evanston, Illinois
>


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