Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Isaac:

That process sounds eminently reasonable and intuitive.

But .... then, for example, after you complete the process and arrive at the
base, single letter root; .... how do you draw out the meaning of that
single letter?

For example, with letter "$" below? What is the base meaning of that letter?
And how do you reason to that conclusion?
I look forward to hearing from you.

regards,

fred burlingame
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> To obtain the root of a Hebrew word I remove from it all attached
> prepositions (admittedly, it is not always clear if a first letter is
> grammatical or radical, as in the word TAMAR), then I remove from it all,
> internal and external, personal pronouns (in other words I shed from it all
> vowels), then I ignore the letters aleph, ayin, and final he, which I
> consider mere filler letters, and am left with the root.
> Thus, the root of AB, 'father, cloud, thick', is B. The root of E$, 'fire',
> is $. The root of 'EL, 'god', is L. The root of GA!, 'touch', is G. The root
> of OR, 'light', is R. The root of QUM, 'rise', is QM, the root of QIYR,
> 'wall', is QR. the root of ARBA, 'four', is RB. The root of ECBA, 'finger',
> is CB. And so on.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>  On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Paul Zellmer wrote:
>
>  Again, the language that we know as Hebrew has triliteral roots.
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