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  • From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Maher-shalal-hash-baz
  • Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:14:38 -0400


Nick wrote:

> It seems reasonable to suppose that the
> prediction consists
> of a double statement in that there will be a double
> judgment.

Or perhaps it's a rather poetic statement. Not only is there semantic
equivalence, but if maher and chash are participles, the halves are
syntactically parallel.

> If this
> is so, then could it also be said that 'Maher-shalal' is Hebrew,
> pertaining to Samaria, and 'hash-baz' is Aramaic (or maybe
> 'Aramaizing' Hebrew) relating to Damascus?

Do you see anything particularly Aramaic about either word? shalal and baz
are used together in 10:6 and in Ezek 38:12, BTW. They seem just to be
synonyms native to Hebrew. Chash is reasonably well-attested in Hebrew, and
I'm not even sure that it has an Aramaic cognate.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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