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  • From: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] antonyms
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:00:26 -0600

a common & popular feature of the language; and so we have


וראיתם את הארץ מה הוא ואת העם הישב עליה החזק הוא הרפה המעט הוא אם רב

במדבר יג יח

sounds routine and uneventful ...

but then we arrive at .....

ולא ירבה לו נשים ולא יסור לבבו וכסף וזהב לא ירבה לו מאד

דברים יז יז

and voila ... מעט becomes אחד , at least in the modern,
implied, understanding of the latter passage.

certainly, the experience of דוד and שלמה testify to vitality of the
antonyms רב and מעט ; rather than רב and אחד . How did this transformation
in antonyms occur from the written language then ... to the modern
understanding of that language today?

regards,

fred burlingame
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