Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jerry:

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Jerry Shepherd <jshepherd53 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Karl,

 

Two responses for now.  More to come after you've made your response to no. (5).

 

(5) What?  No response to this one? I'd love to see it.  J

I figured that as I was going from memory, and I no longer have access to a copy of the book, I can neither verify nor falsify my memory, so there’s no more that I can say.

 

(6) Karl, as I said, your proposed etymology is highly unlikely.  Were you aware that the batter in baseball was originally called a "striker"?  And that he was given a number of chances to make proper contact with the ball when "striking" at it?  And that there was an umpire who kept count of these "strikes"?  Karl, all you have done is create a false, unlikely, and undemonstrable etymology.

In other words, you are arguing for the idea that I originally guessed at, namely that a “strike” does not mean to miss, rather it means an attempt to hit within a scoring area, or that the ball was delivered in such an area that such an attempt should have been made but wasn’t. You rejected this before, if I remember correctly, so now you push it?

There is another use of “strike” with a form and meaning common to other Germanic languages, also used in other contexts in English, with a meaning of a negative mark or count against someone or something. An example is this headline “Awful derailment in Canada is another strike against tank car design: editorial” http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/07/awful_derailment_in_canada_is.html

Either way, “strike” does not mean “to miss”.

The only reason this argument is being made in b-hebrew is so that you can argue that Hebrew words have widely varient meanings, even opposite meanings, without being homonyms or homographs. I read this as you wanting to play Humpty Dumpty with the text of Tanakh.

Blessings,

 

Jerry

Jerry Shepherd

Taylor Seminary

Edmonton, Alberta

jshepherd53 AT gmail.com

 

Karl W. Randolph.