Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Isaac,
(Are you related to my husband?)

They're called Fallen Ones, because they fell from Heaven (I assume).
The root still means to fall in the kal, in the hiphil it is to drop, to 
cause something to fall.
The fallen ones happened to be giants.
The Shephelah, the foothills of the Judean highlands, are the lowlands, 
literally, from the same root as npl. 
Liz Fried


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> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:27 AM
> To: Yitzhak Sapir
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The radical letter L as marker of elevation
> 
> 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
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> From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Richard Steiner on Sin and Shin
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> 
> > 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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