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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] $PZH/M$PXH
  • Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:40:28 -0500

Yigal:

Lisowski listed them as being from the same root, but doesn't hazard a
definition for the unused root. It would make sense if the root has something
to do with family or household life, but that is just a guess.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

>
> 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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