Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   Nir, 

    A mystery - since you seem to know that even the verbs in your first 
paragraph are not biblical, why do you mention them in this list at all?

   As you mentioned some were coined in modern times.

   Since you don't claim to know Arabic, why do you make any assumption about 
it?

    Uri Hurwitz                              Wilmington, VT

    


    
   
i suspect there are more remnants of the H$TF(L form in hebrew.i refer to
H$T(BD, H$TKLL, H$TRBB, H$TXRR, etc, though 
i must add three comments here:

1) to save the grammar books these forms were declared pertaining to
four-letter roots at some point. however, this is mere posthumous
rationalization: they represent the same H$TF(L form you are talking 
about here.

2) similarly, $XRR, $KLL, $RBB, $(BD, $RBt, $LHB,  
are nothing but remnants of a canaanite $F(L form, which was 
left out of hebrew grammar. some are modern, like $DRG, and i am not
sure about $(RK.

3) these words are not biblical, as far as i know, and a natural 
conjecture here is that they were borrowed from the arabic. 

    nir cohen