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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: Rolf <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecclesiastes 3:11
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:16:03 -0700

Rolf:



RF: Yes. (LM with two segols refers to a youth, as you observe. One verb (LM has the meaning "to be hidden," and another verb written similarly has the meaning "to be dark."

I don’t know of two verbs, rather one verb meaning “to be unknown” used in different binyanim—when Hiphil has the causative sense of causing to be unknown. “To hide” is a synonym to causing to be unknown, but not exactly the same. I don’t know a single case where it means “to be dark”. To make sure, I also checked a concordance.

As for the noun (LM, it’s used as I mentioned for a boy and most often for a temporal sense, but I agree with you never in a spacial sense.
 
 In the Hebrew portion of "The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament," Koehler/Baumgartner only temporal references are given; "long time, duration; future time; a long time back."  I checked the use of (WLM in the DSS. I looked at many of the 599 examples and did not fine any with local meaning. The mentioned work says: "(WLM meaning "world" occurs in post-Biblical Heb." I do not have the text of the Mishna where I am, but I remember that the local meaning occurs several times in the tractate Avoth—(WLAM HABBA; the order/age to come.



Best regards,


Rolf Furuli
Stavern
Norway

Karl W. Randolph. 




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