Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

I should have added L-HA-IC להאיץ 'to accelerate', and L-HA-IT  
להאיט 'to slow down' (there is also L-HA-IZ, in a related sense).  
Both, 'to act forcefully', but in opposite directions.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Isaac Fried wrote:

> I should have added SOP סוף, a variant of SOB סוב .
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Isaac Fried wrote:
>
> > Math professors know that the negative is but the positive, albeit  
> > upside down. They also know that EPES אפס (zero) is not "nothing  
> > = no-thing", which is metaphysics, not mathematics, but is rather  
> > the number x satisfying the equation a+x=a.
> > It appears to me that the biblical EPES אפס is a variant of  
> > EBES אבס, 'full, fat', and this is, in my opinion, the meaning  
> > of APS-EI AREC, 'the ends of the earth, the full extent of the  
> > earth'. I think that the English 'and' and 'end' are also one and  
> > the same word. When something ends, another thing ands.
> > Such use of the positive, in the sense of 'complete', to denote  
> > the negative in the sense of 'no more, nothing left', is also  
> > found, methinks, in TAM (not TAM-IYM) as in Gen. 47:18 or Jos.  
> > 4:11, and KALAH, as in Isaiah 10:23.
> >
> > Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
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