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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: PS And God saw that it was good
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:26:53 -0500


But I remember in the deep recesses of far back memory, that there are two letter roots

Shoshanna




Well, according to BDB the root of TOV is tet-waw-bet. This root is also
found in Arabic, with a yod equivalent in the middle, and Akkadian. This
confirms that the roots were separate as far back as proto-Semitic. But
some scholars have surmised that many triliteral roots were originally
biliteral in an even older form of the language, and were then extended.
So there is room for a hypothesis that both TOV and TEVA` come from a
common biliteral root tet-bet. Unfortunately such hypotheses are quite
unprovable and so speculative as we have no records that far back.

Peter Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Shoshanna Walker [mailto:rosewalk AT concentric.net]
Sent: 20 January 2002 04:57
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: RE: PS And God saw that it was good

Same spelling in Hebrew - Tet, Bet, Ayin

It might be a different root from Tov, but it is still related;
according to our tradition, the Tet Bet in Teva and in Tov are not
accidental.

Teva probably derived from Tov.

So what is the root of Tov?? And what is the root of Teva??

Shoshanna




Shoshanna, what is the Hebrew spelling of the word Teva = "nature"? It
doesn't seem to be biblical. But it seems very similar to an Arabic
word
for "nature", tab`, which is spelled with the equivalent of Hebrew
tet-bet-ayin. But that would have to be a quite different root from
TOV.

Peter Kirk

>
> Also the word Tov is related to the word meaning "nature" - Teva
>
> So you could translate this as "and G-d saw that it was all working
> well according to the laws of nature which He set into place."
>
> Shoshanna

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