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  • From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
  • To: Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: nakedly shrewd Genesis 3
  • Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:37:46 -0500


"naked" derives from the hollow verb `WR
"crafty" derives from the stative verb `aRoM

See Cassuto, _Genesis_, I,p.143 for a discussion of the wordplay.

Lee R. Martin



Trevor and Margaret Nicholls wrote:

> For the etyomologically minded of you
>
> I have been alerted to a similarity between the word
> in Genesis 3:1
> 'RM = crafty, cunning, subtil
> and that in Genesis 3:7,10,11
> 'RM = naked
>
> I am moved to ask: are they related? If so how?
>
> Trevor and Margaret Nicholls
> e-mail: tmjpbn AT ihug.co.nz
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