Both examples you give above are the result of two different roots
> People who wish to communicate choose words according to their
> commonly understood meanings, or as we say here, according to their
> semantic domains. If he wants to communicate, he does not use words in
> weird, unique senses. A word cannot have multiple meanings and still
> communicate.
>
>
Nonsense. There are many words which have multiple meanings and still
communicate. In English, to pick an example at random, "bear". Or if you
want two meanings which are the same part of speech, "lie". If I say "he
is lying", I can tell only from the context which meaning is intended,
but only rarely (and then usually intentionally) is there any ambiguity.
There are many words in biblical Hebrew that work like that.
... Some mayWhen I look at a Biblical Hebrew term, I start with the assumption
have become like that because the various senses of a word have become
widely diverse. Others have become like that because, as with "lie", two
originally different words have come to be spoken or spelled the same -
as can be proved by comparison with other languages both ancient and modern.
...
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Peter Kirk
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