Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

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.

--
Peter Kirk
E-mail:  peter AT qaya.org
Blog:    http://speakertruth.blogspot.com/
Website: http://www.qaya.org/