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Re: [b-hebrew] quantum hebrew

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
Cc: Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] quantum hebrew
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:07:08 -0400

It appears to me that RA, רע, essentially means 'flimsy, disconnected, fractured'. Hence also REA רע, 'friend', a man involved in a free relationship, LI-R-OT לרעות, said of sheep and cattle roaming freely and disconnectedly in a field, etc. This is also, methinks, the essential meaning of LI-R-OT לראות 'to see, to perceive, to discern, to visually differentiate the view'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:28 PM, fred burlingame wrote:

The word רע

Re: [b-hebrew] quantum hebrew , (continued)