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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] RB
  • Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:24:23 -0800

Jim:

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:50 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

> Karl:
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> 1. You wrote: “So what? What is the evidence that we deal with a two
> letter root here? None.”
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> (a) RB is the 2-consonant root of many city names in Canaan, both in the
> Bible and in non-biblical sources.
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Irrelevant. Just because it might be true in other cases does not make it
true here.


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> 2. You wrote: “Ayin when it is part of a word, it is part of the root. It
> doesn’t get dropped nor added. So this is a minimum a three letter root.”
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> (a) $M( has a 2-consonant root: $M.
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> (b) YD( has a 2-consonant root: YD.
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> (c) RB( has a 2-consonant root: RB.
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> (d) Most other Hebrew verbs that end in ayin have a similar pattern.
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Well, not one of the examples that you provided above follow your supposed
pattern.

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> The ayin in those verbs has been added to the 2-consonant root as a mere
> verbal suffix. That final ayin is not part of the root.
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Every example that you gave that is not true. Add the ayin and there is a
completely different meaning. Because there is a different meaning, that
shows that the ayin is part of the root.

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> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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Karl W. Randolph.




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