To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: What are Hebrew words for hen and egg?
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:05:34 +0100
At 00.00 07/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
could you tell me what are Hebrew words for
hen and egg? Both Biblical Hebrew and Modern
......
hen - Tarn'golet
egg - Baitzah
tarnegol = gallus gallinaceus : "respondebat gallus sylvestris (tarnegol
bara') coram eo" Esth 1,3 in secundo Targum ubi prolixa fabula de hoc
gallo. .......
Targum: Sal 50,11 Et gallus sylvestris alitur ab ea; 80,14 cantus galli
sylvestris; Giob 39,16 gallo sylvestri intelligentia est ad laudandum me
.......
tarnegol bara' and Leviathan: in die quinto ... creati sunt ... Targ .
Esth 3,7
tarnegolet Gallina : Gallina sylvestris parit die magno ova duo .... die
parvo ovum unum (Medr Sal 45) ......
(Johannes Buxtorf, Lexicon Chaldaicum ...., Basel 1639 - Nachdr 1977
- 2653-4)