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  • From: La Fanga <lafanga144 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] chalal - perforate/pierce?
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:14:12 -0700 (PDT)

I've heard that the word mechalal in Isaiah 53:5 can means pierced based on
the Arabic cognate khalal which can mean to pierce/perforate/skewer. How
correct is it to carry over the Arabic meaning of a homonymic word into
Hebrew? I know that Arabic often helps us to understand archaic Hebrew words
however I also know that not all words that sound alike are the same. Do the
two words derive from the same semitic root so that it can be said they are
the same in meaning? I checked an Arabic concordance and while the Arabic
khalal can have a myraid of different meanings, the word seems to be used
commonly in the sense of spoiling, corrupting, or other degeneration similar
to the primary meaning of the Hebrew. So is it linguistically possible for
mechalal to mean pierced as some claim? Thanks.

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In YWOD"(A (Rt 3:11), it is clear that Y is root consonant.
But, what about YWCAR, last word in Isa 54:17?
Is here the yod a root consonant too?

This question is intended not as a bizantine one but in order to make clear
where to put this type of word (YWCAR) in the Hebrew Schemary I'm working
to build up.

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)





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