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Re: btwlh & `lmh

From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: btwlh & `lmh
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:41:27 -0500

On 29 Jan 01, at 16:46, Charles David Isbell wrote:

> Remember if either betulah or parthenos is used even one time to
> refer to a female who has had sex in any fashion, then neither word
> can carry the modern meaning of "virgin".

Assuming that the connotations of the words never changed over time....

Lewis Reich

btwlh & `lmh, Ian Hutchesson, 01/29/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, Moshe Shulman, 01/29/2001
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, Charles David Isbell, 01/29/2001
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, George Athas, 01/29/2001
- RE: btwlh & `lmh, Liz Fried, 01/29/2001
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, Moshe Shulman, 01/29/2001
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, Jonathan D. safren, 01/30/2001
- Re: btwlh & `lmh, Lewis Reich, 01/30/2001
- btwlh & `lmh, Harold R. Holmyard III, 01/30/2001
- RE: btwlh & `lmh, Peter Kirk, 01/30/2001