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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

     According to the BDB the possible etymological connection is the Arab. 
root S (sin) FX; one of its meanings is "to commit fornication". Its main 
meaning  is "to shed "(tears) or "to spill" (blood). 
 
   Uri 

Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:2
Hi all,

Does anyone think that there might be a connection between the words $pxh 
(shifxah - a female slave or "handmaiden", more or less the same as "amah") 
and m$pxh (mishpaxah - an extended family, clan or phratry)? What is know 
about the etymology of the two words?

Thanks,

Yigal
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Yigal Levin  wrote:

> Does anyone think that there might be a connection between the words $pxh
> (shifxah - a female slave or "handmaiden", more or less the same as "amah=
")
> and m$pxh (mishpaxah - an extended family, clan or phratry)? What is know
> about the etymology of the two words?

Yigal,

K&B under m$pxh lists Ugaritic $px and Punic #px. J.Huehnergard* glosses
$px as "sprout, scion." The article in K&B on $pxh leaves your question in
the doubtful category.


greetings,
Clay Bartholomew=20
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*page 183 Huehnergard, John=A0 =A0
Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription
Publisher:=A0 Harvard Semitic Museum=20