Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

We need no Arabic for this.

Ps.31:11(10)

כי כלו ביגון חיי ושנותי באנחה

כשל בעוני כחי ועצמי עששו

KJV:

"For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed"

Compare Ps. 22:15(14)

כמים נשפכתי והתפרדו כל עצמותי

היה לבי כדונג נמס בתוך מעי

KJV:

"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels" 

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Ishnian wrote:

From: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat.

arabic also has ($ = moth. 

 

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John Leake: Almost, Nir - Arabic has عثّ (root <ain><tha'><tha'>), a root certainly cognate to the Hebrew root עשש.

 

 

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Ishinan:`thth: Primary sense in Arabic: "to eat, fret, devour, consume."

 

 

1- `thth

 

a - A moth-worm ate it or fretted, namely a woollen cloths, the kind of worm or grub that eats / gnaws corn, skin, leather.

 

b - Vipers devouring each others.

 

c- Transferred sense, quick in consuming of wealth and property.