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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Firmament
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 05:35:20 +0100


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







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