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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Thanks for the correction. So Heber must have been separating from Akin the
"person" rather than a place called Kain.


Yigal
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Judges 4:11 & Joshua 15:57


> Yigal,
>
> PRD is most commonly used when people separate from each
> other but there are instances when a location is involved.
> In Gen 2:10 where the river flowing through Eden is
> separated (yipared) or divided into four head(waters).  In
> Judges and Genesis the niphal is used.  Gen 10:5 has lands
> being divided (niperedu).  But there are no cases of a
> person being separated from a land.  It always seems to be
> like separated from like, land from land, person from
> person.
>
> Jack Tladatsi
>
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