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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] BLG
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:32:56 -0500

Dear List Members:

This root appears only five times in Tanakh, four times as a hiphil verb and
once as a hiphil participle in a noun context. Any thoughts on its definition?

I looked up a dictionary and the definition given was to brighten up as in
making cheerful, however all the contexts where it is used imply a
destructive definition as in being consumed or destroyed.

The root also appears a few times as a name, but those don't help in trying
to decypher its definition.

Any thoughts on this word? Peter, any clues from cognate languages?

Karl W. Randolph.
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