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[Yaacov Yeretz <ierets AT yahoo.com>]

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Vince:

 

In Jewishcircles there has been a regular use of the word "tsav" through the 
millenniums.This is one of the words Jews have pretty little doubt about that 
it a command.But still there is a possibility that the root might be in use 
with other meanings.

BothKLEIN's Ethymological Dictionary (pub. by University of Haifa, Israel) 
and EvenShoshan's new Hebrew-Hebrew Dictionary in six volumes, give the very 
explanationyou have already got.

I justsupposed, the word might be of Aramaic origin, and therefore I turned 
toJastrow. You can see a scan of the respective page here: 
http://www.israelbiblicaltours.com/ierets/Download/Jastrow.gif

 

Persoanlly,I understand the words KaW LeKaW TSaW LeTSaW as an ancient 
discription of thecomputer and the internet(but not exclusively so).

 

Sincerely

 

Yaacov

 

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

 

> 

> Karl:

> 

> 

> 

> Thanks for your helpfulresponse. I am uncertain however about the

> origin of tsav. Is thereanywhere else that this term appears where the

> meaning is clear? I amassuming that you, and others, are deriving this

> meaning for tsav frommitzvah. Are you certain that that is possible? It

> is easy to see how one mayderive the meaning "line" from qav, but tsav

> is more difficult.

> 

> 

> 

> Regards,

> 

> 

> 

> Vince Medina

 


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On 05/08/2005 22:02, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>    
>...
>    The scribe wanted to explain the meaning of an
>exisiting name YHWH but simply did not know it, beyond
> the memory that a much earlier HWH was in his time
>equivavlent to HYH. ...
>

An alternative which makes a lot more sense is that the original form of 
the saying Ehye asher ehye goes back to that earlier time. The statement 
was perhaps originally Ehwe asher ehwe, but became "modernised" at some 
later stage.

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Peter Kirk
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