From: "Charles David Isbell" <cisbell AT home.com>
To: "Robert Vining" <rvining AT log.on.ca>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Lot's wife
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:31:08 -0500
On 10/19/00, Banyai Michael wrote: "The salt pillar is a word game between
"melah" salt and "Meluhha"/Amalek."
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Please note that there is no linguistic connection between the root M-L-X
[Mem-Lamed-Het] and Amalek, Hebrew `-M-L-Q [Ayin-Mem-Lamed-Quf]. On the
false identification of Melukhkha with `Amaleq, see George Landes in IDB
I:101-2.
Charles David Isbell