Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Karl,

> I just looked at your site and looked at all 
> text examples where you have the meaning of 
> corruption of destruction, and with the possible 
> exception of one use in connections with a hapax 
> legomai of uncertain meaning, none of the uses 
> necessarily have a meaning connected with 
> corruption. Some of the examples IMO actually 
> work better with the “tied to” or “restricted” 
> meanings than destruction or corruption meanings.
>
> I do include the being in labor, as part of muscle contractions.
>
> I too have looked at all uses in making the 
> definition below, though the below definition 
> covers only the root meanings.

HH: I have to tell you that it bothers me that 
you ignore what every lexicon I'm familiar with, 
if I remember correctly, as a meaning for this 
Hebrew root XBL. If you plan to produce a 
dictionary, this sort of behavior seems 
irresponsible.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard