Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Ishinan:

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Ishinan <ishinan AT comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Previously [JIM STINEHART] wrote:
>
> " To my assertion that "Seir" literally means "hairy", and hence "
> well-wooded", you responded:  "No, it does not. That is a fairy tale that
> you  made up."
>

Sorry, this quote is from me, not George Athas. His responses are a lot more
restrained than mine.

>
>
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> [GEORGE ATHAS] - Where do you possibly see ???? meaning 'forest'? You
> simply
> have not nailed this down. There is a big difference between 'hair' and
> 'wooded forest'. Until you can produce a firm linguistic connection there,
> you are either speculating at best, or just making it up. Either way,
> that's
> NOT GOOD METHOD! If you were doing a research degree, you'd be panned by
> your supervisor for this and sent back to do some basic linguistics.
>
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>

It sounds like George Athas criticizes BDB as using poor method.

>
> … I have to express my disagreement with your
> assessment of Jim's etymology of   ????
>

Are you using a mail server that won’t handle UTF-8? Google mail was
designed to handle UTF-8, yet your message comes in with multiple question
marks.

>
> The accusations leveled at Jim on THIS particular point, in my opinion, do
> not hold water. I personally checked his assertion and this is what I
> found.
>
> Based on Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon p. 973,…
>

This is what is contested as being legitimate. Just because a word in one
language has a certain meaning, does it necessarily follow that another
language use the same word in exactly the same way? The answer is clearly
“no”.

>
> However, in his assertion, Jim made two minute mistakes.  First, he
> neglected to give the page # of the entry in the BDB.


Yes he did give the page #.


> Ishinan Ishibashi
>

Karl W. Randolph.