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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>
  • To: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 53:8
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:51:56 +0200

> >The fact that very few instances of lmo may possibly relate to singular
is easily understandable, since smihut form evolved into preposition, and
its semantics expanded.
>
> Possible, but unlikely in my opinion.

In your example of panim, lifney tzohoraim is wider than "face." A word,
which is an object itself, evidently has narrower sense than the same word
only referring to the object. The latter has, so to say, wider degree of
freedom.

Vadim Cherny





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