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  • From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben and Jo Crick)
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Eze 27:6
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:32:19 +0100


On Wed 5 Jun 2002 (12:24:01), johntyler AT connoley.com wrote:
> Could $n be taken as a descriptor of the bt-'$rym? If we accept that '$rym
> is a variant of t'$rym, meaning boxwood, then bt-'$rym might be young
> boxwood. Or perhaps its another tree of the same family, prized for
> it's ivory color.
>

Dear John:

The consensus seems to be that BaT-'a:$uRiYM should be pointed BiT:'a:$$uRiYM
as suggested by Kittel in the app: crit: of BHS.

T:'a$$uWR occurs in Isaiah 41:19 and 60:13, where it is traditionally
rendered
as Box-tree. It could be the Arabic /Sherbin/, a species of cedar. This gives
the sense "Thy deck they made of ivory [inlaid] *in sherbin wood* from the
island[s] of Cyprus".

Shalom
Ben
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