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- From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
- To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
- Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:42:37 -0500
The root NXL, is a member of the root family
נגל, נהל, נחל, נכל, *נקל
all essentially meaning 'spread over, include'. So the verb (or noun) NAXAL may refer to water spreading over the earth, or, equally well, to people coming to live on it. Such apparent diversity of meanings for words sharing the same root is common in Hebrew.
In any event, I believe that L means 'elevation', a meaning imparted to every root containing L.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:54 AM, fred burlingame wrote:
And so we have:
ויעלו עד נחל אשכול ויראו את הארץ ויניאו את לב בני ישראל לבלתי בא אל הארץ אשר
נתן להם יהוה
numbers 32:9;
and
לא נשוב אל בתינו עד התנחל בני ישראל איש נחלתו
numbers 32:18
The three letter word נחל encodes two widely different meanings in these
verses. The message of "stream valley" emerges in the first verse. And the
meaning of "inherit" or "possess" appears communicated by the second.
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
K Randolph, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
Paul Zellmer, 11/19/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/19/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, Paul Zellmer, 11/19/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, George Athas, 11/19/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, fred burlingame, 11/20/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, George Athas, 11/20/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, fred burlingame, 11/21/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/19/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
Paul Zellmer, 11/19/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
K Randolph, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?,
fred burlingame, 11/18/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] priest code?, Stephen Shead, 11/19/2010
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