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  • From: "Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Name "Hebron
  • Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:03:32 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)

Jim

Please go and read some books on the history of Semitic languages. There is
nothing at all strange about the development of het to 'ayin - it is found
in a number of languages/dialects. It is the het - 'aleph connection that
needs to be explained for Canaanite/Hebrew.

Kevin Riley

-------Original Message-------

From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
Date: 6/03/2009 7:08:53 AM


David Hamuel:

To my statement “As to heth vs. Aleph in initial position, some versions of
The Samaritan Pentateuch have )BRN for ‘Hebron’”, you wrote:

”Which version? MS?”

M23

Let me type out here the relevant small portions of four different entries
in
HALOT. The first three show an aleph: ). The last one oddly shows an ayin:
(.

1. “XBRWN, Sam. M23 )ibron…Gn 13: 18….”

2. “XBR[W]NY, Sam. M23 )abruni…Nu 3: 27; 26: 58….”

3. “XBR, Sam. M22 )abar [as a noun]…2. Charm, spell, enchantment…Dt 18:
11….”

4. “XBR,…Sam. Ben-H, (abar [showing an ayin here, not an aleph]…2.
Grandson of Asher Gn 46: 17; Nu 26: 45….”

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