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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] full moon vs. appointed time
  • Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:40:54 -0400

Possibly because they see KESEH as a variant of KE$EH (with the letter ש sin) from the root כשה K$H, 'plump, thick' as in Deut. 32:15.

Root based languages can easily become ambiguous, and this is why "cognate" languages are worthless.

Isaac Fried, Boston University
  
On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:14 AM, Yigal Levin wrote:

why some translations have "full moon" I don't know




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