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RE: [b-hebrew] Karnaim

From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
To: "'Peter Kirk'" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
Cc: 'Hebrew' <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Karnaim
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:47:42 -0500

I see a reference by Sokoloff to The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary's Akkadian
QARNU as "an excrescense on the head." But I don't have the context of the
statement, which might indicate whether this was a skin growth or a more
conventional "horn".

Ken

> But it does look to me as if the data from other languages
> suggests the meaning "horn". Cognates are found in Akkadian, Arabic,
> Ethiopic, Phoenician and Aramaic ...

Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Karl Randolph, 11/11/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, gfsomsel, 11/12/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Karl Randolph, 11/12/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Peter Kirk, 11/12/2004
    - RE: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Ken Penner, 11/12/2004
- RE: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Karl Randolph, 11/12/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Karnaim, Peter Kirk, 11/16/2004