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Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?

From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:24:56 +0100

On Thu 15 Apr 2004 (09:13:20 +0200), leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il wrote:
> Nice. But $WBB also has the implied meaning of "rebelious". Look at
> the word-play in Jer. 3:14, "$uvu banim $ovavim" - "turn back,
> rebelious children".

Indeed! Compare Hosea 14:4 'eR:Pa' M:$uWBaTaM. "I will heal their
backsliding". "One who turns back" is a "backslider" almost by definition.

$aLoWM

Ben
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[b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Karl Randolph, 04/13/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Peter Kirk, 04/14/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Karl Randolph, 04/14/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Yigal Levin, 04/15/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Ben Crick, 04/15/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] $wbb from two roots?, Karl Randolph, 04/16/2004