Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Dear Pere:
Just as Chris Weimer mentioned, you can ignore Jim Stinehart. I do.

GLYLH, used 5 of 7 times in the plural, refers to districts. You are right,
its etymology is from GLL, to go around, from which I get the picture of the
prince making a circuit around his princedom. It is used of the flat plains
of Philistia and of the flat flood plains of the Jordan. It does not mean
hilly land.

When Isaac gets on his etymology kick, he is usually wrong, so I tend to
ignore his posts as well.

As for your example of (SS, it is found as a verb only once in Malachi 3:21
where it has the meaning of walking upon, hence the must from grapes (SYS
being that which drips out of a vat after the farmer walks upon the grapes.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:21 PM, <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm unable to follow the explanations of Jim, mainly because I know
> nothing
> of Egyptian language.
> But as regards the etymology of Galilee, I think that maybe both Isaac and
> Jim focus on the issue in a too much complicated way.
> The same as in Joel 1:5 we have the noun (SYS, sweet wine or pressed out
> juice, from verb (SS, to press... the noun GLYL is derived from verb GLL,
> to
> roll, and means, as Isaac suggests, a hilly land, a wavy terrain.
>
> Are there any objections to this?
>
> Pere Porta
> Barcelona (Spain)
>
>