Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

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.