Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Peter,

You wrote:

>More than 100 years later Kohler and Baumgartner's translators could
>render no more precisely than "water plants" for the Jonah reference.
>BDB, by the way, omits the Jonah reference while claiming to be exhaustive.

Perhaps I can return your favor in pointed out a missed datum on a page.
BDB does list the Jonah 2:6 reference to SW.P. They list Jonah 2:6 under
meaning 1. rushes, also citing Ex 2:3,5 and Isa 19:6. They agree with
someone else who derived SW.P from the Egyptian word twfi, reeds.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard