Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

Since I started reading Tanakh without points, recognizing possible roots has 
actually become more important for recognizing sentence meaning than when I 
used the points. There are several words where the context is needed to 
recognize which possible root is the correct etymology.

Now do all the roots have three letters? That’s a different question.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> On 29/10/2003 10:34, Karl Randolph wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> Karl, you may well be right, but the concept of roots to which you 
> appeal here is a theoretical etymological construct every bit as 
> speculative as the ones which we were discussing a few weeks ago.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
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> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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