Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Dave:

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:14 PM, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

> Agreed.  Plus, he's a bit out of date; we now know from Ugaritic that the
> root is XWH, not
> $XH.
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> XWH is Hebrew for “to declare”. Anyway, while the findings at Ugarit are
good for describing the pagan culture of the Iron Age ANE, it is only of
peripheral use for the study of Biblical Hebrew language.

Karl W. Randolph.

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