How about a similar derivation of TW from TWH? The verb is found in
.... The evidence turns up very weak that from such a verb
cwh/cwy, someone in Biblical times would have derived the word cw.
And this weak evidence is compounded by the fact that there already is
a word (mcwh),
... that this word is not translated in the Septuagint as
"command" (but as you noted appears to be a reading of "$w)"), that later
Hebrew would derive a noun "cw)h" (giving an aleph as a place-holder for
the final root letter), and that cw is missing from Rabbinic Hebrew.
... YouLook at the context. Moth is in the next verse, put in parallel with
seem to have the evidence stacked up against you. I am not saying it
isn't somehow possible. It just appears extremely unlikely.
In contrast, I would suggest correcting Hosea 5:11 cw with the
Septuagint's reading "$w)" to read "cw)", and derive it from a cognate of
Arabic Dw) "light", which does make some sense in that passage, given
the following allusion to moths, which seems somewhat out of place
otherwise.
If you don't like that, I think it's best to just assume that it is a word of
unknown meaning, than to assume that it is "command".
Yitzhak Sapir
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