Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Pere,

I am really sorry to hear that you failed to understand what I am saying. 
Don’t despair. Understanding may require time. Things silently simmer in the 
mind and then suddenly everything falls into place and all becomes bright 
and clear. It happens to me all the time.

You are saying: “I wonder if anyone on this list does understand it... since 
nobody, nobody mails to the list anything on this issue...”. I think you 
should not worry about others. I would not look for comfort in CAR-AT 
HA-RABIM. The “others” are also greatly preoccupied now with other fun 
things as evident by the profusion of recent interesting postings.

You are also saying: “I think you have a hard work to do if you want people 
understand what you mean”. I think it is either easy or neigh impossible 
depending on the audience. Hard set notions, ideology, pride and bad 
thinking habits makes it difficult; an open mind and the WILL to understand 
makes it very easy.

I suggest you keep thinking of what XALAH and GALAH “really” mean without 
recourse to translation or negation. Does GALAH really means ‘to uncover’, 
or is this but an implication for something more basic and concrete? Are we 
really “uncovering” something? Is it possible that a Hebrew root could mean 
‘uncover = un-cover’? See also my posting from September 6, 2007 on the 
equivalence of GLL, HLL, XLL, KLL, QLL.

Looking from time to time at relevant entries in my etymological dictionary 
at www.hebrewetymology.com could be highly beneficial.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pporta AT oham.net>
To: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The root SLH


> Isaac,
>
> thank you for your explanation.
> Unfortunately, my level is not high enough to understand what you mean.
> (And I wonder if anyone on this list does understand it... since nobody, 
> nobody mails to the list anything on this issue...)
> I think you have a hard work to do if you want people understand what you 
> mean.
>
> So, I'd say:
>
> 1. It will be better we leave this issue as it is...
> 2. And finally: try, if possible, to explain what is the equivalence of 
> XALAH, be sick, and GALAH, uncover.
>
> Pere Porta
> Barcelona