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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Vadim Cherny <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 53:8
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:26:21 +0000

On 17/12/2004 08:51, Vadim Cherny wrote:

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.


Well, clearly lifney can be used in various non-literal ways, originally metaphorical extensions which have become partially frozen. But the same is true of the English equivalent "in the face of" which can be used of such inanimate concepts as "difficulties".

And the absolute form PANIYM also has its metaphorical uses e.g. in mippaniym in 2 Samuel 10:9 which means something like "in front", and lepaniym which means "forward" in Jer 7:24, and "formerly" in several other places.


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