Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Dear Zack:

I don’t know where you get the idea of CLH צלה being related to prayer. In
Biblical Hebrew, CLH צלה referred to roasting food over a fire, e.g. Exodus
12:8–9, Isaiah 44:16, 19. This had nothing to do with prayer.

CLA צלא is not a Biblical Hebrew word.

Yours, Karl W. Randolph.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Zack . <atdgz AT hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> On the the topic of CLH as related to prayer etc. and jumping into the
> debate late without reading the beginning of the thread (erased by error
> etc.) would there be a connection between CLA and calyan ("tsalyan"), a
> pilgrim, one traveling to a certain destination on a religious urge, need
> or imperative, hence proximity to prayer, or am I too far off?
> Gad ZackCanada
>