Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Yigal:

The only passage in Tanakh where BRYH is used as a noun is again 2 Samuel 13, 
where it is used three times. Looking at the root meaning of BRYH we find the 
concept of being fed, hence as a noun it is food prepared to feed another. 
LBBWT in this context then becomes a subset of BRYH.

Contrast to M)CL, literally “eats” (noun, bad English) refers to the personal 
eating rather than feeding another. Again contrasted to R(H with its concept 
of feeding from which there is the feeder of sheep (shepherd) and neighbor 
from the concept of the one you feed at public ceremonies. The difference 
between BRH and R(H is that in the former fodder is put in the crib and in 
the latter the animal is led out to a pasture where food is available.

Is there anything that I am overlooking?

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

> Hi Karl,
> 
> The way I read it, she prepared both LBBWT from flour and cooked BRYH, which
> seems to have been some sort of stew. The MSRT seems like a utensil out of
> which she poured (KJV translates "pan").
> 
> But interesting that you should ask, today of all days. Today was the last
> day of Hanukkah, and the word LBBWT ("livivot") is used in modern Hebrew for
> the traditional Hanukkah food known in Yiddish as "latkes" - cakes of ground
> potatoes and flour fried in oil. I know that potatoes were unknown in
> biblical times (they're a new world plant) but they did have yams. I don't
> know when "livivot" was first used for "latkes", whether it was a modern
> invention or if the usage preserves an ancient tradition of "livivot"
> meaning fried meal cakes. But a nice coincidence.
> 
> Yigal
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