Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 08/09/2005 22:57, Karl Randolph wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Graham" <kevlds AT hotmail.com>
>
>  
>
> > == Similarly, CLM in Biblical Hebrew encompasses shapes that are 
> > similar or representative to another object, an imperfect copy as 
> > it were (made of gold in 1 Samuel 6) of which "shadow" is just one 
> > variety of CLM.
> >
> > Can you provide instances where "shadow" is to be prefered over the 
> > "image" rendering?
> >
> >    
> Psalm 23:4 is the most famous example, 
> though there are several other examples of 
> the feminine use grammaticized as referring 
> to generalized shadows instead of specific 
> ones.
>
>  
A famous example, yes, but not of CELEM, nor of a hypothetical feminine 
version of it (CALMAH?), but of a different noun, CLMWT. This has of 
course been parsed in the past as a compound CAL-MAWET "shadow of 
death", but is more probably an independent noun from the CLM root 
meaning something like "darkness", cf. its Arabic cognate zulmat.

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