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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Re[2]: Atonement in the Pentateuch
  • Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:53:11 -0400


On 28 Sep 98, at 21:47, Peter_Kirk AT sil.org wrote:


> However, Harris, Archer and Waltke reject this view and
> put forward an alternative, already implicit in BDB, that
> the basic form of the word is KOPER meaning "ransom", and
> the verbal forms (all Piel and Pual) are derived from
> this noun.

It seemed to me that the KPR-ing of Noah's ark was a qal
form.

> This versatile word also means "henna" or "village",

"Village" - K:PfR differs in its vowel pointing.


> But KUFR means> "unbelief" and KAFIR "unbeliever",
> perhaps derived from "cover" > "conceal" > "deny".

This usage is also present in Hebrew - KoWP"R is is an
unbeliever, or "one who denies"; it is usually expressed as
KoWP"R B:(iYKfR - one who denies an essential [doctrine of
belief].

Lewis Reich
LBR AT sprynet.com






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