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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen. 2:25 and 3:1
  • Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:34:51 -0500

Doris:

The two words have different roots. In Genesis 2:25 the root is from (RH and
in 3:1 it is (RM. What we see is convergence because of phonetic spelling
instead of etymological spelling as in English.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dgahler782 AT aol.com

> Can anyone give me the etymology of arumim and arum - passive participles,
> I
> assume, but with very different translations. Could it be proven,
> etmologically, that the translation of arum in Gen. 3:1 should properly be
> "naked" (i.e
> the snake was hairless) ? Thx.
> Doris
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