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  • From: "Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: George.Athas AT moore.edu.au
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The root CLH
  • Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:00:29 -0500

Isaac Fried wrote:

It is a variant of TLH, 'hang, suspend', and hence the צלי אש CLIY E$ of Ex. 12:8 is but a תלי אש TLIY E$, meat hung over a fire. The act CALAH is also related to דלה DALAH, 'drew up water' as in Ex.2:19.

CALA צלא may mean 'drew up words from the depth of his heart', akin to בעה BAAH in Is. 30:13 and Dan. 6:12, which is a variant of נבע NABA.

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Ishinan: Sorry, there is no relationship between 'S.lw' and 'dlw' whatsoever.



See Strong:

1802
dalah
daw-law'
a primitive root (compare 'dalal' (1809)); properly, to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver:--draw (out), X enough, lift up.




and The Brown-Driver-Briggs p. 194.


Dalah is a cognate to As. 'dalu', and Arabic 'dlw'. with the sense of drawing water with a bucket (dalw), hanging down, dangling. 'Dalu' is also a bucket
in all Semitic languages.

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But believe it or not, it is found in Old English:

"dæla, u, f. I. a small dale, Sturl. ii. 100 (Ed.) II. a naut. term, a contrivance to serve the purpose of a ship's pump, Edda (Gl.); hence dælu-austr,m. emptying a ship by a dæla, Fbr. 131, Grett. 95; "

Best regards


Ishinan Ishibashi




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