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  • From: "George Athas" <gathas AT hotkey.net.au>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: PS And God saw that it was good
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:49:27 +1100


| I know. But I wonder where originally, far far back, the two words
| came from. There must be a common something.


Not necessarily. It's probably more an accident of history that TB( and TWB
have two letters the
same. Not a single root (as far as I have encountered) has ever accrued an
extra `ayin. I'm sure
the case is that TWB was originally a 2-letter root (TB), but TB( was always
a 3-letter root.

There are numerous instances of words with some identical root letters, but
very different
meanings:

$MR and $M(
$LX and SLK
(MR and )MR

...to name but a small few.


Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)






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