Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

I have not checked this, and since I'm sitting at the food court of the 
Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco at the moment I have no way to 
check, but I think that the root of Tahrir is cognate to the Hebrew XRR (Het 
Resh Resh), from which we get the Mishnaic Hebrew Herut and "Benei Horin" 
(free men). I don't recall this root in the Bible.

I think (but am not sure) that "Shihrur" is a modern form, using the binyan 
Shaph'el, common in Akkadian but not in Classical Hebrew, but very much used 
in Modern Hebrew (Shakhpel - replicate; Shakhtev - rewrite; Shadreg - up(or 
down)grade; and so Shahrer - make free). 

Karl is of course correct that Hebrew SH is often paralleled by Aramaic T. 
This is also true for Arabic, and thus Hebrew Shnayim (two) is Arabic Tneyn, 
Aramaic Tarten; Hebrew Shalosh (three) is Thalath and so on. I don't know 
enough Arabic grammar to know what binyan Tahrir is, but it's obviously 
related.


Yigal Levin


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To: Uzi Silber
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Takhrir and Shikhrur

Uzi:

I know of no such word “liberation” in Tanakh or Biblical Hebrew.

On your second point, there are several words in Biblical Aramaic that show
that ‘sh’ to ‘t’ substitution, including:

תוב to return
תמה that place, there
תנין second
תקל to weigh

So I think it possible that such a substitution could also occur between
Hebrew and Arabic.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings fellow Tanakh aficionados:
>
> During the Arab upheaval in Cairo's Tahrir Square, reportage always
> translated 'Tahrir' as 'Liberation'.
> Now Tahrir does resemble the Hebrew 'shikhrur' which also means
> liberation.  I suspect the two are indeed linguistically related.
>
> Are they? Please advise.  If indeed 'T'  would be substituting for
> 'Sh', are there other examples of this particular substitution in the
> Mikra? I do know there are other letters that substitute for each
> other.
>
> thanks
>
> Uzi Silber
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