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- From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
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- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:48:03 -0500
Lewis Reich wrote:
It has always seemed to me that the the meaning of Mis(.)rayim is indeed a dual, but not the upper and lower Egypt dual. It seems to make sense to
me when read in conjunction with the meaning of s(.)r as "narrow." (See, e.g. the last word in Lamentations 1:4 "rodfeha hisiguha
bayn ha-ms(.)arim" - "her pursuers have overtaken her between the narrows.") "Mis(.)rayim" seems to make a great deal of
sense as "the dual narrows" - the two narrow strips of fertile inhabitable land on either side of the Nile. "Misr" might
conceivably denote "the narrow" - the narrow fertile Nile valley.
HH: Yes, that is interesting, but you mean Lamentations 1:3.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
Isaac Fried, 03/22/2007
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
Yigal Levin, 03/22/2007
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
Yigal Levin, 03/22/2007
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Awohili, 03/22/2007
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
Lewis Reich, 03/22/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Yitzhak Sapir, 03/23/2007
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Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim,
Isaac Fried, 03/22/2007
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