Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

pere,

i have addressed this in another email on your question last week which maybe 
you did not get (i will look for a copy).  meanwhile, summarizing all the 
answers so far, it appears that (in the case of nouns, not verbs) NO pair is 
an exact match. the pair with final H is as a rule a variant on the one 
without H. actually, "orah" is used in esther for "happiness" and not "or", 
so it is far from being a perfect match.

the closest pair is LAIL and LAILAH, (both in masculine!) with lailah 
(gen1:5) as the main word.  here i cannot explain the relation between the 
two words.

it is interesting that the plural form in some of the cases (or/orah, 
lail/lailah)
is the same: orot, leilot.

also in my list at least
> *. qodesh, qdushah
> *. esh, isheh!!! vaikra 22:8, 23:25 (both feminine, plural: ishim)
> *. nexoshet, nexusha naikra 25:19 (both feminine! plural: nexushtaim?)
may be close or identical. also geva' and giv'ah. also ra' (as in "la'asot 
hara' ", and only in the singular) and ra'ah (plural: ra'ot). maybe the 
difficulty with the plural was the origin for some of these pairs.

it is difficult, usually, to confirm EXACT meaning for a pair of words,
especially when usually one of the two words is rare and might 
have had a slightly different connotation in the past. for example, isheh may 
be restricted to sacrifice, in which case isaac fried might interpret the 
final H as referring to god.

regards
nir cohen

On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:32:14 +0100, Pere Porta wrote
> (Pere)
>  
> While XOQ and XUQFH are clearly related both in form and in meaning, it 
> seems there to be no relation between BQ( and BIQ(H as regards the meaning; 
> of course there is a clear relation between them in the form. 
>  
>  
> But...  in my original post I was dealing with that word kinds that though 
> different in their form they seem to have exactly the SAME meaning...
>  
> And so, Karl provided, between others, MELYC, spokesman, interpreter, and 
> M'LYCFH, announcement. These are not exactly the same thing regarding their 
> meaning..... though they are clearly related in their form. 
>  
> Remark: I wrote on )WR, light and )WRFH, light as well. 
> And I looked for some pairs of EXACTLY this kind and not for something 
> else. 
>  
> Hearty,
>  
> Pere Porta