Biblical Hebrew Forum

["kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

Recently, someone on b-hebrew said that almah meant virgin because its root 
comes from a verb that means to be hidden , and virgins were hidden. What 
about the word olam ? Does it also come from "hidden"?

Also, I read on an internet site that there is something called an 
etymological fallacy  http://www.fallacyfiles.org/etymolog.html

How do you know if the idea that almah means virgin because its root means 
"hidden" is an etymological fallacy? I never even heard of etymological 
fallacy until a few hours ago, so I really don't know much about it.

Kenneth Greifer

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