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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: David and Toby Curwin <tobyndave AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Daniel 7:27 Aramaic verb PLX
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:15:09 +0000

On 11/01/2007 05:49, David and Toby Curwin wrote:
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".
This certainly seems to fit the Hebrew sense "cleave, split", found in Job 16:13, 39:3, Proverbs 7:23, 2 Kings 4:39 (according to BDB), and the Arabic sense of "fellah" which is basically someone who works the ground. But perhaps in Aramaic as as presumably later in Arabic it came to have a more general meaning of "work".

I hope no one is going to make much of the resemblance between PLX and English "plough" (original spelling giving the final consonant in older pronunciation), which is most likely coincidental.

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Peter Kirk
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