Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

 Wasn't the circle a mark of the '('  'Ayin' in all
 early samples of the Alphabet?

  Uri Hurwitz                         Great Neck, NY



hebrew] PQH vs PTCh
Bill wrschmidt wrote:

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 In fact, in retrospect I don't think one can summarily dismiss the 
possibility that the concept of opening in these verbs was originally 
inchoate in the scribal practice of using a circle as a logogram to 
represent the opening that Hebrew wordsmiths called peh, considering 
that 1) the letter peh was by all accounts originally nothing but a 
circle, and 2) words for mouths, per se, were derived from words that 
referred more broadly to opening.

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Bill