Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Isaac;

There are a number of ways to describe the mother ...; "strong,"
"supporting," also in the sense of "full", etc. Is that the meaning of root
letter מ "mem," ... : "full?"

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> 1. There is no Hebrew root that can mean 'unfaithful or treacherous'.
> 2. There is no Hebrew root that can mean 'labor or toil or trouble'.
> 3. The root is ML as in MALE, 'full, massive and lofty'.
> 4.  The meaning of M is as it is in EM, 'mother' (the same way that B is as
> it is in AB, 'father')
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>  On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:57 AM, fred burlingame wrote:
>
>  Hello Isaac:
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Let's try another root letter; and perhaps I can understand better.
>
> What about "mem," מ ? What does it mean?
>
> In מעל (ma-al), strong's 4603, we have an apparent meaning of unfaithful or
> treacherous.
>
> In עמל (ah-mal), strong's 5998, we have an apparent meaning of labor or
> toil or trouble.
>
> I can see somewhat of a faint relation in usage between the two words.
>
> The root letter lamed ל as i understand from you, means to ascend or lofty.
>
> If we discount the ayin ע as a filler, how do we arrive at the definitions
> above?
>
> And what does the root mem מ mean?
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> How can a Hebrew root express in itself such a mysteriously complicated
>>  idea as 'die'? Yet, QAVA קבע, 'fix, put down' is fine. Also, KVAH כבה, 
>> 'put
>> out'. Also GAVA גבע, 'mount'. Also GAVAH גבה, 'go up', (then also QPA קפא,
>> freeze', etc.). They all sound the same (at least nowadays). Why? because
>> they are all the same on the root level. But they are all written
>> differently. why? Because they  are all different in the act level.
>> I also recall now GEV גו, 'body', versus GEB and GAB גב, 'back'.
>>
>>
>