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[Lewis Reich <lbr AT sprynet.com>]

Yes, I did mean verse 3; thanks, Harold. 

Lewis Reich

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Mar 22, 2007 10:48 AM
>>To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim
>>
>>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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