Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

Peter wrote:

>But the metaphor could have arisen from a word
>play (which could be what we have in Job) between two homonym roots,

(Generically speaking, this sounds reasonable if they are in fact from two
unrelated roots.)

>one meaning "sky" and the other meaning "beat out".

But are you really proposing that rqy` is not a derived word? Have you got
any reason for doing so? What about rqw`? It would seem to me that both were
derived from the same source.


Ian