Biblical Hebrew Forum

["biblical hebrew" <jcr.bhebrew AT gmail.com>]

Hi Isaac,

I would have thought that one of Zipf's fellow mathematicians would have had
something a bit more on topic to contribute to such linguistic/mathematic
discussion title.

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James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science

http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       Thesis 1 - Aleppo codex machine translation
http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  Thesis 2 - language acquisition simulation


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On 10/14/07, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
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> James,
>
> While discussing al this fancy stuff it is good, methinks, to keep in mind
> that )AB, 'father', like (AB, 'cloud', like )AP, 'nose' is essentially,
> 'heavy, thick, massive' .
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:28 AM, biblical hebrew wrote:
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> 1) We can say that Abraham was Isaac's 'father'  or  Isaac's  )B
>
> 2) We can say that Abraham was Jacob's )B but not that he was his 'father'
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> 3) We can say that Yhwh is our 'father' or )B - note that this is a
>
> different sense to those above.
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> 4) In a spiritual sense we can say that Abraham is the 'father' or )B of
> non
>
> Isrealites who have entered into a friendly covenant relationship with
> Yhwh
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>