Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

A witness (related to wit and video, German: wissen) means in English a person who saw something and knows about it. To what manifestation of his act the Hebrew appellation ED refers, we may only guess.  Possibly to ADAD, and possibly to OD.

Isaac Fried, Boson university

On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Chavoux Luyt wrote:

Hi

On 22 September 2013 18:00, <b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote: 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "Rev. Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, Mike Burke <michaelgburk AT yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:34:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Numbers 16:21

The word עדה EDAH, 'congtegation', of the uni-literal root D, appears to be a variant of עוד OD, 'more', and of עוּז UZ, 'collect', as in Ex. 9:19. Also of

עדד, עזז, עסס, עצץ, עשש

and also of

אד, אז, אט, אץ, אש, את

 Hmmm, I always assumed it was rather related to עד ED (witness) rather than עוד OD... :-); being a collection of witnesses to an important event or message.

Shalom

Chavoux Luyt

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