Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Me" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

A few days ago Sissi Colotti asked about a word found in 
a medaieval context in Italy. I misunderstood what she was 
asking about. Her interest was in what is found as

    FOCERETH

>> FOCERETH Manifestamente uccidenti me o operario stempanatore mio.

My initial reaction, when I understood the question was to 
try to return to the possible Hebrew form under this, which 
I guessed from BDB as

     pcr   (push, press)

My software is down at the moment and I can't investigate 
the biblical usage of the word. The examples found in BDB 
tend to be more metaphorical than physical.

Can anyone say how this word is used physically in biblical 
and post-biblical usage?

If there is a better alternative to my guess, I'm sure Sissi 
would like to hear it.


Ian




Ian Hutchesson
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