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RE: 1Samuel1:9

From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
To: "Trevor Peterson" <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: 1Samuel1:9
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:48:07 +0100

In Persian "heykal" means "idol", and in Azerbaijani it means "statue". That
doesn't help either. We need to decide what it meant in Hebrew.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Peterson [mailto:06PETERSON AT cua.edu]
> Sent: 19 October 2001 16:05
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: 1Samuel1:9
>
<snip>

> Arabic also uses it to refer to the chasis of a car. Perhaps
> Arabic's use is
> too far developed to tell us much about what it meant earlier and
> in other
> Semitic languages.
> >
<snip>

Re: 1Samuel1:9, ian goldsmith, 10/19/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: 1Samuel1:9, Trevor Peterson, 10/19/2001
- RE: 1Samuel1:9, Peter Kirk, 10/19/2001
- RE: 1Samuel1:9, Trevor Peterson, 10/19/2001
- Re: 1Samuel1:9, George Athas, 10/23/2001
- RE: 1Samuel1:9, Trevor Peterson, 10/23/2001