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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ($ (job 4:19)
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:25:51 -0400

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.





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