Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

My dictionary has three entries for CBY:

1. a noun meaning gazelle (Dt 12:15)
2. a noun meaning beauty, honor (Is 28:5)
3. a noun meaning north (Dn 8:9)

and has noun CiBYWN, desire. This is not found in the Bible.
Hebrew has also noun PiRYWN, fertility, of PRY, fruit.
Remark that CBY and PRY belong to the same vowel pattern.

Kind regards from

Pere Porta
2011/5/10 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>

> Something else caught my eye there. They say:
>
>  השורש צב"י במשמעות 'רצון' רגיל בלשון הארמית, וייתכן שממנה הוא חדר אל
> העברית
>
> I am just wondering how a root can express such an evolved concept as
> 'desire'. Also, how can an Aramaic root "penetrate" חדר the Hebrew language;
> a word I may understand, but a root? Is there, actually, a word in the
> Hebrew language, having CBY as root, and meaning desire? I doubt it.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On May 9, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
>
>  And... why is this etymology lame, Isaac?
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>
> 2011/5/9 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
>
>> No, it is not a typo; it is a Mishnaic form. But let alone
>> this "insthetic" aleph and listen to this lame "etymology"
>>
>>  המילה *צְבִי *מציינת תפארת, יופי והדר  משמעות זו נתגלגלה מן המשמעות
>> הבסיסית של השורש צב"י – מן הרצון אל הדבר שרוצים אותו
>>
>> And this silliness they shamelessly thrust, as the word of the gods, upon
>> the trusting young Hebrew student.
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>>
>> On May 9, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
>>
>>   Dear listers,
>>
>> I'm putting here a question maybe not strictly related to biblical hebrew.
>> I read in a document issued by the Academy of the Hebrew Language (*) a
>> sentence where it is said that:
>>
>> "The quick legs of the gazelle made it (the gazelle) the symbol/token of
>> the
>> speed"
>> Now, I expected to find, for "made it", the same word we find in Ecc 2:12.
>> (Look at Neh 3:13  for a parallel)
>> Instead I find this word with an aleph after letter sin.
>>
>> My question: Is it a typo?  Maybe there is some good reason for this
>> aleph
>> to be inserted here?
>>
>> (*) Milat hashavua 33
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Pere Porta
>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>>
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