Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>]

The root DBR is a variant of CBR, ‘to accumulate, to pile up’. Hence, the
apparently unrelated derivative DOVRAH of 1R 5:23, ‘a raft, a pack of
trunks’. Also related are the roots TBR, from which comes the mountain name
TABOR, and TABUR ‘hub’. Further down the line lay in wait TFR ‘to sew, to
stitch’, CAVAR 'neck', etc. 
The golden rule of Hebrew etymology: The letter R is a marker of plurality;
every Hebrew root containing the letter R refers to a material state of
aggregation.
The root AMR includes the letter R as well. In the word IMRAH the initial
‘I’ is the personal pronoun HI for the thing itself. It is present also in
AMIR ‘tree top’ turning the root into a noun.
Isaac Fried, Boston University

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 5:41 AM
To: Tory Thorpe
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] verse numbering in Exodus 12

On 25/01/2007 21:24, Tory Thorpe wrote:
> Karl:
>
> When we read from the TaNaK we are not translating
> into English.
> The art does not apply when the brain is already wired
> for
> Hebrew; but "words", "utterances," "statements" are
> permissible 
> translations of DBR. There are not ten commandments,
> so the 
> variant numbering has nothing to do with a so-called
> rabbinic 
> misunderstanding of the Hebrew word.
>
>   
It is worth pointing out that DAVAR does not seem to mean "word" in the 
sense of an individual lexical or phonological item. Nor does 'IMRA. 
This is important because I have seen people using verses like Proverbs 
30:5,6 as an argument for word for word translation. But these verses 
are not about words in that sense, but about messages or utterances.


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Peter Kirk
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