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  • From: Stewart Felker <stewart.felker AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] What exactly is the semantic overlap between רוח as (1) 'breathe, blow' and (2) 'to be wide, spacious'?
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:42:06 -0500

There's also רֶוַח, as 'relief' - I'm assuming the overlap here would be in the same sense that we say 'having space' (or 'breathing easy'). But what exactly is the connection between 'wind, breath', etc. and being 'wide, spacious'?




Stewart Felker
University of Memphis



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