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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:23:50 -0400

1. True, but we have known it all along from Hebrew itself.

2. Talking about LEXEM and MI-LXAM-AH, we should recall the words קרב QRAB, 'combat' (come-beat), קרוב QAROB, 'near', and QEREB, 'intestines'. 

Isaac Fried, Boston University 

On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:10 AM, Ishnian wrote:

A "MalH.amah" means a ferocious war and / or the battlefield where combatant bodies are pressed against each other.
 




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