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  • From: jucci <eljucci AT unipv.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: What are Hebrew words for hen and egg?
  • Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:05:34 +0100


At 00.00 07/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
could you tell me what are Hebrew words for
hen and egg? Both Biblical Hebrew and Modern
......
hen - Tarn'golet
egg - Baitzah

tarnegol = gallus gallinaceus : "respondebat gallus sylvestris (tarnegol bara') coram eo" Esth 1,3 in secundo Targum ubi prolixa fabula de hoc gallo. .......
Targum: Sal 50,11 Et gallus sylvestris alitur ab ea; 80,14 cantus galli sylvestris; Giob 39,16 gallo sylvestri intelligentia est ad laudandum me .......
tarnegol bara' and Leviathan: in die quinto ... creati sunt ... Targ . Esth 3,7
tarnegolet Gallina : Gallina sylvestris parit die magno ova duo .... die parvo ovum unum (Medr Sal 45) ......
(Johannes Buxtorf, Lexicon Chaldaicum ...., Basel 1639 - Nachdr 1977 - 2653-4)

E.J.

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