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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: wattswestmaas <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Offend/dealt corruptly - chet bet lamed (nehemiah 1:7)
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:43:15 -0700

On 20/06/2004 13:02, wattswestmaas wrote:

Beste Reiner, hoe gaat het in Nederland??

Thankyou, but I am really trying to get deeper into this root because of the
odd places where it is written in tanach and also the fact that words such
as 'sorrow' and 'destroy' have much more plainer hebrew variants than this
root. I understand that in hebraic thinking there is an idea of
"...entwining, braiding nothingness..." for example psalm 7 (the man
conceives evil). Also I am thinking whether or not a subtle idea in
translation of "DISFIGURMENT" could be meant/construed in place of destroy.

Groetjes, Thankyou Chris, Ireland.


Hebrew XBL is (according to BDB) related to two quite different Arabic words with different letters and sounds for the first radical. According to many scholars, this suggests two different pronunciations in early Hebrew. One of the Arabic verbs (with a pharyngeal fricative rough H sound) means "bind"; the other (with a uvular fricative KH sound) means "corrupt or render unsound" or (in another form) "be deranged (in mind)" (quoting BDB here). BDB links the words XABAL "act (ruinously) corruptly) and XEBEL "destruction" with the latter root, and the other senses to the former root. The details are uncertain, but the evidence suggests at least that it is dangerous to try too hard to find a common meaning.

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