Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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.

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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.
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Vince Medina

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