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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tsav latsav...qav laqav
  • Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:31:17 -0500

Vince:

Actually CW is also found in Hosea 5:11 again meaning
command as a noun. I would not say that it is a derivitive
of MCWH, rather both are derivitives of the same root.

Interesting, in both cases, CW is used of a command that is
against God's will.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Medina, Vincent" <VMedina AT cbcag.edu>

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> Karl:
>
>
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> Thanks for your helpful response. I am uncertain however about the
> origin of tsav. Is there anywhere else that this term appears where the
> meaning is clear? I am assuming that you, and others, are deriving this
> meaning for tsav from mitzvah. Are you certain that that is possible? It
> is easy to see how one may derive the meaning "line" from qav, but tsav
> is more difficult.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Vince Medina

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