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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] lexicography, was physical attributes
  • Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:31:11 -0500

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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