To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Firmament
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 05:35:20 +0100
Peter wrote:
>But the metaphor could have arisen from a word
>play (which could be what we have in Job) between two homonym roots,
(Generically speaking, this sounds reasonable if they are in fact from two
unrelated roots.)
>one meaning "sky" and the other meaning "beat out".
But are you really proposing that rqy` is not a derived word? Have you got
any reason for doing so? What about rqw`? It would seem to me that both were
derived from the same source.