Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

dear bryant,

>>> One of my questions was how this is possible when the words arrived at
often have opposite meanings.

as far as gimatria is concerned, it is just the sum of letter values. so, a
priori a "good" word and a "bad" word may have the same numerical value.

as far as meaning goes, i guess that the kabalists (possibly other 
groups) have developed a separate, parallel "hebrew dictionary", 
where meaning is symbolic and not necessarily coincides with the 
BH dictionary. mainly words related to the spiritual (XYYM, NP$, 
N$NH etc), kabalistic terms (names of the spheres) etc.

as karl said, this may be outside our domain.

nir cohen

On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:12:50 -0400, b-hebrew-request wrote
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