Peter:
With “bear” I looked at its uses and found widely divergent meanings
depending on contexts. Looking at cognate languages verified that I was
dealing with different roots. (I could have looked at the history of English
language and arrived at the same conclusion, but the above is assuming the
situation with Hebrew, where we don’t have the history.)
However, with XBL חבל within Biblical Hebrew, I have notMy example of "potluck" shows that the lack of apparent need to look for different roots does not imply that the different roots do not exist.
found widely divergent meanings. Therefore, I see no need to go to cognate languages to
look for different roots. That Arabic, for example, has two roots becomes irrevelant if
all uses in Biblical Hebrew can be seen as expressions of one root.
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