From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yam Suph "Reed" Sea ?
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:24:51 -0500
Has anyone considered the relationship of the word "suf" - what you
translate as "reed", to the word "sof" - "end" - as: The sea was at
the "end" of Egypt. Without looking in the ORAL Torah, I cannot
imagine that no one commented on that.
Shoshanna
[snip]
To try and bring this back to a b-hebrewish topic, it seems to me that one of
the questions we need to be asking is: was "suph" a technical name for a
particular kind of reed with a distinctive shape, size and growing condition,
or perhaps a more general term for visible aquatic plants, whether freshwater
or saltwater? Has anybody looked into this?