At 06:38 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:No, I don't know. I want to know on what basis you assert so confidently that this KR verb (whatever the exact form) cannot be used of making holes through hands and feet with a sharp implement. Is it because the word cannot be used of holes this small? Is it because the word is only used of holes in the ground? Is it because it is only used of holes made by blunt or spade-like instruments?
On 28/09/2006 23:11, Moshe Shulman wrote:
...Can you give evidence from biblical Hebrew of:
Harold, words mean something. KRU cannot be distorted to mean pierced, when it means to dig (a hole). A truck is not a wheelbarrow even though both have four wheels.
1) The sizes of hole,
2) The kinds of material in which the hole is made,
3) The kinds of instrument used for making the hole
No, nor are they really relevant (as I am sure you know.)
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