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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org list" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ssade Can Be Emphatic Sin
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:30:12 -0500

C/S mutations effecting but a slight variation in the specific meaning of a word
is common in Hebrew. An example that readily comes to mind is the acts
אצר ACAR and אסר ASAR, both related to אזר AZAR; and to more.

Interpreters of the Hebrew bible fancied to discern in CAPNAT of Gen. 41:45
the root צפן CPN, a variant of ספן and שפן SPN, 'covered, hidden', as in
Hag. 1:4 and Deut. 33:19. Consequently they saw פענח PANEAX as 'reveal',
namely, 'the exposer of the things concealed'.

So much so, that PANEAX is routinely used now in spoken Hebrew for 'decipher, solve
a mystery'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:39 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:

ssade/C in early Biblical Hebrew can sometimes be an emphatic sin





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