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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The radical letter L as marker of elevation
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:26:56 +0200

Let us take the root נפל (NPL). In Genesis 6:4 we read about the נפלים (NeFILIM), which the KJV translates as ‘giants’, namely of elevated stature.

Isaac Fried, Boston University
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Richard Steiner on Sin and Shin


On 1/11/07, Isaac Fried wrote:
Every Hebrew root that contains the letter L materially refers to an
elevated state.

Good examples that illustrate the above are the roots $PL "low", NPL
"fall".

Yitzhak Sapir
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