Biblical Hebrew Forum

[R.Lehmann <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>]

Philip,

in the next volume of KUSATU (out may/june) there will be an article by 
christo van der merwe which by the way is dealing with that question.

Reinhard


Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, AkOR
Forschungsstelle für Althebräische Sprache und Epigraphik
Fachbereich 01: Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
D-55099 Mainz

Am 29.03.2006 um 19:00 schrieb b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org:


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> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:02:50 -0500
> From: "A. Philip Brown II" <philipbrown AT apbrown2.net>
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Lion in Hebrew: lexical development question
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> I'm curious if anyone knows why or has a theory as to why Hebrew
> developed/acquired a relatively large number of lexemes for 'lion.'
>
> )RY, GWR, KPYR, LB), LBYH, LY$, $XL, which omits two feminine lemmas 
> listed
> by HALOT.
>
> Are there any studies on these synonyms? Semantic field analyses?
>
> Philip Brown
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