Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David and Toby Curwin" <tobyndave AT hotmail.com>]

According to Klein, the original meaning of the root was "to cleave, split",
and from there it developed "to plow, till the ground" and from there "to
worship". 

David Curwin
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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 0:37 AM
> To: Yitzhak Sapir
> Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Daniel 7:27 Aramaic verb PLX
> 
> On 10/01/2007 22:07, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> > ...
> > HALOT provides various cognates and uses of this word in 
> the meaning 
> > "servant" or "laborer" or "agricultural laborer" including Jewish 
> > Aramaic, Samaritan, Syriac, Neo Syriac, Arabic (loanword 
> from Syriac), 
> > Neo Aramaic, among others.
> >
> >