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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mowledeth
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:27:58 +0100

Karl W. Randolph:
1. If MWLDT/mowledeth "refers to where one is born", then how do you
understand the usage of that word at Genesis 43: 7 and 48:6?
2. Why do you understand the mem as meaning "where"? Doesn't mem mean,
rather, "from"? Doesn't MWLDT literally mean "from brought forth"? Isn't the
focus of MWLDT on "descendants", those human beings who come "from" being
"brought forth" by one's father? That's how I see it.

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Jim,

Please, do not mistake an initial M meaning "from" for the prefix MW.
As Karl pointed out in his replay, prefix MW is a mark of Participle and more precisely of Participle Hiph'il of some verbs peh"yod.
So, MWLDT is the Hiph'il Participle, singular feminine of verb YLD, to bring forth.
Thus its literal meaning is "(female) who causes to bring forth", the same as "MWRDT" means "(female) who causes to go down" (of YRD)

MWLDT does not appear in the Bible in its absolute form but only with suffixes.
Summing up: MW has nothing to do with M = from.


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Why do you see the focus of MWLDT as being on the geographical place where
one is born? Are you viewing MWLDT as meaning "from [the geographical place
where one was] brought forth"?
3. Doesn't MWLDT usually refer to people, namely certain of one's relatives
(one's father's descendants), rather than referring to a geographical place
(where one was born)?
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois

From my answer above it is clear that MWLDT must rather point out to
ancestors than to descendants.

I hope this helps.

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)




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