Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Sorry, Yigal:

It was late at night, I was tired and I didn’t doublecheck. Now my mistake is 
out for all to see. Should keep me humble, but never seems to sink in.

The word in Judges is $Q+ which means peace, not being threatened by enemies. 
(At least I got the first and last letters correct.)

$L+ refers to having authority.

$LWM in 1 Kings 5:4 is in the context of Solomon’s wealth, and Israel’s too, 
during his reign, so again it refers to far more than just peace. In other 
words, Israel was very prosperous at that time, beyond all those surrounding 
them.

$LH or $LW has the idea of confidence, sometimes to the point of 
overconfidence. Those who have confidence are at ease. We have in 2 Kings 4 
the Shunamite woman asking Elisha not to give reason to boast, i.e. the 
promise of a son when she considered herself too old to have one, but to her 
surprise God gave her a son according to Elisha’s promise.

Is there a connection between fulness and confidence? You’re right, probably 
stronger than between fulness and peace. Plus the forms show a possible 
connection.

Karl W. Randolph.

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

> Karl,
> 
> Can you please give me an example of SL+ ?  Where in Judges?
> 
> As far as Shalom, while you are right in that our modern understanding of
> "peace" is different from that of the Bible ("peace" in the Bible means that
> Israel dominates its neighbors and is not threatened by enemies), and that
> the basic meaning of $LM is "whole" while $LH/W is "peaceful", I still see a
> semantic connection between the way the words are used.
> 
> In any case, "peace" is a perfectly apt translation of many occurrences of
> Shalom. See, for instance, 1 Kings 5:4 (4:24 in English).
> 
> Yigal
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