Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Noam Eitan <noameitan AT yahoo.com>]

It means a camp, conjugated as a construct noun. In Numbers 32:41 it is used 
as such, as well as a free standing noun. But all the other examples you gave 
are of a different word altogether, xwtm (chotam - a signet ring) - the root 
is xtm, not xwh as in xwt.
 
Noam Eitan
Brooklyn, NY
 
 
>In the dictionaries I have XWT [chawat] is listed merely as a name, and 
most of the time in Tanakh it is used as one, as part of the name XWT 
Y)YR, the name of a town east of the Jordan.

However, in five verses, Numbers 32:41, Ezekiel 28:12,  Haggai 2:23, 
Job 38:14, 41:15 I noticed that it is used apart from the name of the 
town. It appears to be something that was built up, not just a natural 
phenomenon. Does anyone have a clue to its meaning?

Thanks for your help.

Karl W. Randolph.




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Been doing some reading on semantic functional analysis and as a test case
decided to examine how cause and agency are encoded in Biblical Hebrew.
Waltke/O'Conner (11.2.11d #12,#13) give examples of mn marking cause and
agency. 

Gen. 9:11 whqmty )t bryty )tkM wl) ykrt kl b#r (wd mmy hmbwl wl) yhyh (wd
mbwl l#xt h)rC

Lev. 21:7 )#h znh wxllh l) yqxw w)#h grw#h m)y#h l) yqxw ky qd# hw) l)lhyw

How do we know that the original audience for this document would have
thought of m)y#h in Lev. 21:7 as the agent? Is it possible that the m)y#h
was understood as the source, i.e., the action grw#h proceeding from the man
in the direction of the woman? In other words can we state categorically
that the spatial notion is lost here and replaced with an abstraction like
agent?  

The application of this same question to causation mmy hmbwl in Gen. 9:11
requires only a slight adjustment.

The purpose of this analysis is to come up with a series of semantic
functional categories that can be applied to both Hebrew and Greek (LXX) so
that semantic functional mapping onto surface structure can be studied in
terms of LXX/MT translation equivalents.

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew 
 
Two books I am reading right now which deal with semantic functions are:

Chafe, Wallace L. 
Meaning and the Structure of Language
Chicago 1970 

Blake, Barry J. 
Case (Textbooks in Linguistics )
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.