Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 31/03/2007 23:57, davidfentonism AT aim.com wrote:
>  I think this depends on how you construct "fexibility". As you know well, 
> Hebrew letters and roots have embedded meaning which inform the words they form and 
> that those embedded meanings in the letters and roots are 'uncancellable'. However, 
> those very same 'uncancellable' letters and roots are dynamic, having a range of 
> meaning. It is in this way that I perceive Bill's proposition. Thanks, Peter.
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>   
No, David, I do not know this well. Meanings are not uncancellably 
embedded in letters and roots, they are temporarily and fuzzily 
associated with words and word groups. Roots are an abstraction which is 
helpful to some limited extent. But there is no mysticism here and 
nothing uncancellable.

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