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Yaakov,

can you be more accurate?
-You write Ps 64:20 --- you should have written Psa 94:20
-You write Ex 9:6 ----- nothing at all!
-You write Jb 27:6 ------- nothing at all!

The words you bring here are or fit:

-Is 47:11; Eze 7:26 and Ecc 2:22: www.oham.net/out/N-t/N-t007.html
-The remaining: www.oham.net/out/N-t/N-t103.html
(The word in Gn 27:29 is an imperative, not a noun)
These are two QUITE different patterns.

Now, as regards the particular meaning in the different texts... one must 
carefully consider the context, as it happens in all the languages!

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:12 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] various interpretations of HWWT


> I was wondering if anyone here has thought about the word HWWT,
> which appears in quite a few places (especially Psalms).
> It seems to have several quite different meanings.
>
> In Is 47:11; Ez 7:26; Ps 57:2, 91:3; Pr 19:13; Job 6:2, 30:13
> it means calamity, destruction or tragedy.
>
> In Ps 5:10, 38:13; Pr 11:6, 17:4 ; Job 6:30 it means lies or deceitful 
> speech,
> while in Ps 52:4, 52:9, 55:12, 64:20, Micah 7:3 it seems to be simple 
> wickedness,
> hubris or evil intentions.
>
> Do any of these meanings derive from the simple "to be"
> as we see in Gen 27:29 and Is 16:4 ?
> Exodus 9:6 seems to be an intermediate case
> where the word could be simply "be there"
> or something more ominous.
>
> Are any related to "worthwhile" as it appears in Koh 2:22 ?
>
> A similar root seems to mean "fall" in Job 27:6
> and Daat Mikra interprets the "calamity" meaning
> as an extension of that meaning
> ( note that Ruth 3:18 )YK YPOL DWR means )YK YKRH ).
>
> On the other hand some of the classical comentators
> imply that meanings I construed as "hubris or evil intentions"
> actually come from )VH meaning "to lust after".
>
> Any insights would be appreciated.
>
> Yaakov (J) Stein
>
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