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  • From: Lewis Reich <lbr AT sprynet.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:51:11 -0400 (EDT)

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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Lew Reich
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