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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] The root בדל BDL
  • Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:01:36 -0400

Is a variant of BDL, BTL, BCL, B$L, BTL

בדל, בטל, בצל, בשל, בתל
and also *PZL, PSL, PCL, *P$L, PTL
פזל*, פסל, פצל, פשל*, פתל

This understanding leads us to identify the vegetable בצל BACAL of Nu. 11:5 with the multilayered onion.
From the extrabiblical PZL, we have פזילה PZIYLAH, 'squinting', while from the extrabiblical P$L we have HI-P$IYL, 'rolled-up', both clearly related to the PICEL, 'peeled', (related to pill and pilled?)  of Gen. 30:38. 

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Apr 22, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Mike Burke wrote:


Could the Hiph'il participle "badal" be translated "separate from," or "divide from"?

(In other words, is the
preposition "from" implied in the word?)
 
Michael Gerard Burke
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