Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

Has anyone considered the relationship of the word "suf" - what you 
translate as "reed", to the word "sof" - "end" - as:  The sea was at 
the "end" of Egypt.  Without looking in the ORAL Torah, I cannot 
imagine that no one commented on that.

Shoshanna




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To try and bring this back to a b-hebrewish topic, it seems to me that one of
the questions we need to be asking is: was "suph" a technical name for a
particular kind of reed with a distinctive shape, size and growing condition,
or perhaps a more general term for visible aquatic plants, whether freshwater
or saltwater?  Has anybody looked into this?