Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

this is interesting, since in talmudic aramaic?/hebrew? כלבה was used for
lioness (i speak from memory only. anybody can confirm?). so maybe jephuneh
gave his sons names after the most noble of animals? and in semitic?

nir cohen

jim said:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:18 -0400, b-hebrew-request wrote
>> (d)  Ditto for the name of Caleb’s brother, Othniel.  The root (TNY of that
name is sometimes said to mean “lion”, allegedly being “from an unused
root meaning ‘to force’”, but no common words like that exist in Biblical
Hebrew, so that’s a wild, unsubstantiated guess.