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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "b-hebrew-lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] resource material was chalal-perforate/pierce?
  • Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:16:41 -0500

michaelabernat9001 AT sbcglobal.net wrote:
I am somewhat confused by the discussion of chalal. It appears that some argue there are two roots with similar but not identical spelling. One meaning to profane and the other having a meaning which includes wound, pain, pierce, etc. My resources are limited so I looked this up in a couple of modern Hebrew/English dictionaries and some of the more classical lexicons.

The modern dictionaries treated this word as one entry, presumably they only saw one root which included both the ideas of profane and wounding or killing.

HH: The standard lexicon for biblical Hebrew is, in English, HALOT. It lists these words as two homonymous roots. BDB is a standard older but more affordable biblical lexicon, and it also treats the words as two homonymous roots. BDB was done in 1906 but has hundreds of minor corrections inserted in 1951.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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