----- Original Message -----A famous example, yes, but not of CELEM, nor of a hypothetical feminine version of it (CALMAH?), but of a different noun, CLMWT. This has of course been parsed in the past as a compound CAL-MAWET "shadow of death", but is more probably an independent noun from the CLM root meaning something like "darkness", cf. its Arabic cognate zulmat.
From: "Kevin Graham" <kevlds AT hotmail.com>
== Similarly, CLM in Biblical Hebrew encompasses shapes that are similar or representative to another object, an imperfect copy as it were (made of gold in 1 Samuel 6) of which "shadow" is just one variety of CLM.Psalm 23:4 is the most famous example, though there are several other examples of the feminine use grammaticized as referring to generalized shadows instead of specific ones.
Can you provide instances where "shadow" is to be prefered over the "image" rendering?
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