Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

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From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>


> The problem, as I see it, is that George has misrepresented BDB in his 
> over-enthusiastic abbreviation. The full BDB article is more than three 
> pages of small print, including short paragraphs describing several of 
> the senses.
Three pages???!!! I can’t imagine any one lexeme needing anywhere near that 
much verbiage to explain.

I was always taught that excess verbiage is a sign of sloppy thinking, 
twisting a thought to try to make it fit a preconcieved pattern or an attempt 
to decieve. Not knowing the people and giving them the benefit of the doubt, 
I summarilly rule out the third option, and recognize that often the second 
option is unconscious without malice, therefore I tend toward some of options 
one and two.

> BDB also lists examples of B- meaning "with" in the senses of 
> accompaniment and of concomitant conditions, and clearly distinguishes 
> these from instrumentality. If you disagree with BDB on these listed 
> cases, your disagreement is exegetical and not lexicographical.

I don’t have a BDB available before me, so could someone list a few such? I 
would like to see examples of what BDB claim. I can’t think of any off hand 
and I don’t have a tagged text to search.

Thanks in advance.

Karl W. Randolph.

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