Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Actually I do, but I also recognize that not all words that look the same
have identical origins. As the webpage that you cited mentioned, a lot of
rabbinic midrash is based on similarity between words. That's fine for
midrash – but not sound linguistics. 

 

Yigal Levin

 

From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 1:41 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] באר

 

Thanks for your comments.

 

It appears that you don't subscribe to the verb root theory of the language
.... at least in this instance.

 

http://www.jewfaq.org/root.htm

 

regards

 

fred burlingame

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

Okay. To answer the question, B)R "well" is obviously related to BoR, "hole,
water-hole, cistern". B)R "to explain" seems unrelated. The two are simply
homonyms, of which there are some in any language.

 

Yigal Levin