Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

isaac, here is one.

ג  יָדַע שׁוֹר קֹנֵהוּ, וַחֲמוֹר אֵבוּס בְּעָלָיו; יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא יָדַע, 
עַמִּי לֹא הִתְבּוֹנָן.        3 The ox
knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, My
people doth not consider. 

BN has to do with HBN=understand and BYNH = wisdom, consideration etc. but it
also has to do with vision, observation. nowadays it simply means "to observe,
to look at". so, there is a shift in meaning.

at the same time, even nowadays, HTBWNNUT as "reflexion, observation" has to
do with thought and not vision. so, today the two meanings have diverged and
are used at the same time for similar, but distinct, terms.

the same bifurcation process occurred in english, where SEE is used for the
same two meanings.

nir cohen





On Fri, 3 May 2013 11:08:24 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
> Some examples would be helpful.
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> On May 3, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> 
> > karl,
> >
> >>> There’s a major point of disagreement right there—a word can have  
> >>> multiple
> > translations because of the differences from one language to  
> > another. but
> > within its own milieu, it has one meaning.
> >
> > here i must side with david. there are three types of phenomena:  
> > change
> > of the word morphology, change of the word semantics, and even  
> > bifurcation:
> > one word is endowed with two different meanings. do you really want  
> > to claim
> > that none of these occur?
> >
> > nir cohen
> >
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