Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Thanks for your comments.

It seems the verb form of these three letters includes more than simple
reading, repeating, or reciting a pre-existing list of facts.

regards,
fred burlingame
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:35 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred:
>
> From the dictionary:
>
>  באר to draw out (both physically as in water from a well, and
> figuratively, as in drawing out a meaning, explaining) → באר well, from
> which water is drawn out
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM, fred burlingame 
> <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> in בראשית כא לא , the term means "well."
>>
>> in דברים א ה , the same three ordered letters, vocalized in essentially
>> the
>> same manner, now means "explain."
>>
>> a. what is the tie that binds the two different meanings? "dig deep?" ...
>> is
>> there a tie that binds?
>>
>> b. and does "explain" imply a separate unadorned list of התורה elsewhere,
>> without commentary?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> fred burlingame
>
>