Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Is noun Li$kah, room, chamber (Neh 13:5) not related to the noun existing in
today Hebrew (not in the Bible) LE$EK, box?

It would be an analogous contruction to:

Qiryah, city (Is 1:21) (*), which is built up on Qyr, wall (Ez 4:3)...

(*) an (arranged) amount of walls (ramparts, houses...)


Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

2011/5/25 Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>

> Is Li$kah a Hebrew word, or is it a loan-word from Akkadian or Persian,
> which would explain its irregularity.
>
> Yigal Levin
>
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> To: Isaac Fried
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Others?
>
> Might we then say that, concerning the pointing pattern, noun LI$KAH,
> chamber (Neh13:5) (*) belongs to a different mishqal from that of noun
> $IKBAH, layer (**)?
>
> Or should we rather say that they belong exactly to the same pointing
> pattern, only that for an unknown reason the B of $IKBAH lacks dagesh?
>
>
> (*) Dagesh in the K
> (**) NO dagesh in the B
>
> Regards
>
> Pere Porta
>
> 2011/5/25 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
>
> >  I am not sure how the present day $IKBAH, [$IXVAH] שכבה 'layer,
> stratum',
> > came to be. In the bible (Ex. 16:13) it is found only in SMIYKUT as:
> $IKB-AT
> > HA-TAL שִׁכְבַת הַטַּל 'lying dew', implying that the single is possibly
> > $KABAH.
> >
> > I don't think that the Imperative form $IKBAH of Gn 39:7 "became" the
> noun
> > for the 'layer' of today.
> >
> > The imperative $IKBAH, as well as the corresponding noun, lacks a dagesh
> in
> > the B, and I, therefore, suspect it to be a latter form preferred by the
> > NAQDANIYM.
> >
> > All other nouns of the same MI$QAL have a dagesh, as expected, to wit:
> > XEMDAH, XERPAH, KISBAH, LI$KAH, NIQPAH, NI$KAH, EMDAH, [PITDAH], PISGAH,
> > PIRDAH, PI$TAH, RIKBAH, RICPAH.
> >
> >
> > Isaac Fried, Boston University
> >
> >  On May 24, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
> >
> >  We have in Gn 39:7 an Imperative form, $IKBAH, lie down (you, male)! (an
> > alternative to $:KAB found in 2Sa 13:5)
> > In today Hebrew we find the common noun $IKBAH, layer, social stratum.
> >
> > Apparently, an old Imperative form has become a feminine common noun
> today.
> >
> > I'm looking for other analogous cases: do you know of some others?
> >
> > Regards
> >
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> >
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> >
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