1 Samuel 13:21 (KJB)
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
(Hebr: a file with mouthes)
1 Samuel 13:21 (Holman)
The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks,
and one-third [of a shekel] for pitchforks and axes,
and for putting a point on an oxgoad.
The late Michael Weitzman has a reference
http://www.tyndale.org/Reformation/1/weitzman.html
The solution came through the discovery in the Holy Land, starting at the beginning of this century, of ancient weight inscribed with the Hebrew letters pym ... (This suggestion was published by E.1. Pilcher, 'A New Hebrew Weight', Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund (1914), p. 99. Pilcher makes it clear, however, that the suggestion was due to Mr Samuel Raffaeli, who had acquired the third example known of the pim weight. )
Yet in other places it appears that this is a rather conjectural akkadian cognate idea, not "Hebrew letters".
(google cache)
<http://www.biblecentre.net/ot/twot/pe/pe15.html>http://www.biblecentre.net/ot/twot/pe/pe15.html
pim ...was formerly connected with peh... Now the word has been found inscribed on several weights of two-third shekel size. Speiser (see bibliography) suggested that the word is a dual and arose from a false Hebraizing of the Akkadian shanipu (a Sumerian loan word for two-thirds of a shekel), reading it as two p<s therefore in Hebrew a dual of peh - payim . (the ordinary plural of peh mouth has a feminine ending).(the ordinary plural of peh mouth has a feminine ending).
Are these basically the same archaelogical references ?
Are we talking about Hebrew letters or a rather super-conjectural Akkadian cognate relationship ?
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