Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

What does Yeb mean?
I thought it meant "elephant."
Does it mean ivory, tooth, or something like that?
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 1:34 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: "elephant" in Hebrew
> 
> 
> The Azerbaijani word for elephant is "fil" which I guess is a loan from
> Arabic. If so, this differs from the Hebrew only by the regular change
> Hebrew p <=> Arabic f.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan D. Safren [mailto:yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il]
> Sent: 01 November 2000 12:12
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Cc: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: "elephant" in Hebrew
> 
> 
> I don't have an Akkadian dictionary handy, but if Iremember correctly,
> the Akkadian word for elephant is "iru" (long i) making it almost
> certainly a cognate of Heb "piyl", with an lmnr interchange.
> Sincerely,
> 
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> Jonathan D. Safren
> Dept. of Biblical Studies
> Beit Berl College
> 44905 Beit Berl Post Office
> Israel
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