Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Thanks, Yigal, I stand corrected.

When Shoshana mentioned that a davka was something that connects us to the 
sacred, or something very similar to that (sorry, I don’t have her message 
before me, so if I misstated what she said, it was not intentional) it 
appeared to me that “davka” is an anglicization of a yiddishization of a 
Hebrew word meaning to join, adhere or stick to, much the same way “gonef” 
and “tsuris” came from Hebrew.

Now I have a question, what does being precise have to do with connecting us 
with the sacred?

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

> Karl,
> 
> "Davka" is spelled Dalet-Vav-Qoph-Aleph -  DWQ), not with a Bet. Anyway, the
> word in Gen. 2:24, Davaq (DBQ), means "to adhere" or "to stick". How is this
> like the meaning of Davka?
> 
> Davqa seems to come from the root "DYQ", which does not exist in the Tanakh
> (a Dayeq in the Tanakh is a siege-wall), but which in rabbinic Hebrew and
> Aramaic means "to be precise".
> 
> Yigal
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