Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> The paper quotes Pardee to the effect that "nabsh" is Aramaic.  In
> fact, it is more
> accurate to say that standard Biblical Hebrew has "nefesh" and
> Zincirli Aramaic has
> "nabsh."  But nb$ in this sense also occurs on one of the Arad ostraca.

Lest I be misunderstood, I consider this a mistake on the part of the
reporter, not Pardee, who probably tried to summarize what Pardee told
him.

Yitzhak Sapir