To find out theNo, no, NO!!! Meaning is not established by etymology. Meaning is
meaning, we need to establish the etymology. ...
established by usage in context.
Everywhere but in Hebrew and to some extent in Chinese. Of course, modern
languages, for one, deviated from etymological meaning, and for another,
accumulated huge contexts. This does not work with Tanakh, ...
... where we have aIn extreme cases where we don't know enough from the context and the regular usage, we may have to look at the etymology as the best guide we have - although that is not much use when the etymology is disputable, as here. In this case the better guide is that lamo usually has a plural or collective meaning, which makes a strictly singular referent in this case less likely. But there is simply insufficient evidence to completely rule out a singular referent.
handful of lamo, and where, as in isaiah 53:8, it is the context that
depends on the meaning of lamo. Again, we have so little of the clear
context that the relation is the opposite: etymological meaning of the word
allows us to clarify the context. In this case, etymological meaning of lamo
as lhemo shows that nega is to people, not to the character.
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