Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Karl,

 

I read in your dictionary (2012  edition) that you have "caterpillar" as the meaning of 'A$.

But........  'A$ means "moth", not "caterpillar", even though it is true that a moth comes and is born from a catepillar...

Maybe you should amend this?

 

Pere Porta

(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)

2013/6/19 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

Pere:

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, Karl.

But we have to accept the oddity of a sentence like this:

 

....(they) will crush them before (or in front of) (the) moth.

There are two different words, דכה DKH “to crush by pounding” and דכא DK) “to make low, humble”.

“… they make them low before the face of a caterpillar.”

 

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Pere Porta

Barcelona (Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)

Karl W. Randolph. 

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Pere Porta