Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Peter:

I see this as the same as the difference 
between the masculine/feminine uses of XQ, 
)BR, and over a hundred other Hebrew nouns. 
CLMWT as a plural occurs several other times 
in Tanakh, I count another nine times.

I count it a grammatization indicating 
meaning change the same way as -chen or 
-lein in German indicates "small".

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "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.
> 
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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