Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 27/01/2004 06:34, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:

> Dear Peter,
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> You wrote:
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> > 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.
> >    
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> 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
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>  
Maybe you have the corrected edition. I have the Hendrickson reprint of 
the original edition, which lists only Ex 2:3,5 and Is 19:6 under "rushes".

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