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  • From: Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory ?
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:32:05 +0300

> BTW, do you know where the modern word PYL comes from ?

After hitting the "send" key, I remembered an Aramaic expression from
the Babylonian Talmud with the word PYL.

Interestingly that expression "they pull elephants through the eye of a
needle"
uses the word QWP - but as the eye of a needle - not a monkey.

Yaakov (J) Stein




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