On 04/12/2003 17:58, Karl Randolph wrote:
Peter:The only DSS reading I know of is from the Nahal Hever fragment shown in http://www.torahresource.com/Newsletter/Ps22.16.pdf, which reads kaf - alef - resh - vav. I agree with you that this implies some kind of hapax, but K)R might be a variant of KRH. It seems likely that this was an original biliteral root KR which became triliteralised in various more or less synonymous ways e.g. KRH, KWR (which BDB gives as the root of M:KORAH and M:KERAH) and perhaps also K)R. Compare DKK = DWK = DK) = DKH.
Does the DSS have a K)RW or KRW, a medial Alep or not? It is my impression that a medial Alep is seldom dropped, which would indicate to me that we have a hapax legomenon here. If DSS omit the midial Alep, then we are dealing with KRH.
Karl W. Randolph.
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