Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Dear James:

You have touched on one of my pet peeves concerning Biblical Hebrew 
dictionaries—with few exceptions they don’t try to differentiate between 
shades of meaning in their definitions. Yes, terms have a certain amount of 
overlap, some more than others, and through careful comparison of terms, one 
can usually recognize the differences.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bowick" <bowick AT idirect.com>

> I have been using Ken Penner's Flash!Pro software to learn vocabulary, and
> am learning a lot of words quickly.  One of the things I have noticed is,
> based on the translations, there seem to be a few English words that have a
> number of Hebrew words.  There are a number of Hebrew words that are
> translated 'turn' (with variations - 'turn back', ') and a large number that
> are translated 'cattle.'  Especially in the latter case, the variety of
> Hebrew words for cattle, given their culture, would appear to reflect
> technical terms, and to have differentiated meanings.  Is this the case or
> are they synonyms.  To ask the question differently, to what extent do the
> sematic domains overlap?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> James Bowick
> 
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