Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

 Jack,   I find it important to understand the original intent of the  authors of Scripture, but language itself is not frozen in the past.  Language changes, grows, and meets new times and ideas. The  founders of Israel made a purposeful decision to go back and  construct vocabulary for new situations and industries from  Hebrew roots rather than Hebrewize foreign words. Has raqia  been used in science or physics? I guess this is what I am asking.  Did the word develop with time, or was there some other lucky  word that got chosen?   Verna 
It really doesn't matter.  What matters is what the word meant to  the folks who were there at the time the texts in question were  written.

Dave Washburn
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