Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Hi Yitzhak,


> > But you also have lexical differences - the word ירח in the Gezer
> > inscription
> > appears practically the same amount of times as it appears in the entire
> > Bible.
> >
>
> Irrelevant. That it appears in the Bible with the same meaning is
> sufficient.
>
>
I think I'm going to have to agree with Karl here. The frequency of the word
is a direct consequence of what is being talked about. The Hebrew bible's
most common word is, unsurprisingly, Yhwh. I'm really not sure what point
you were intending to make here.

James Christian