From: "David and Toby Curwin" <tobyndave AT hotmail.com>
To: "'Peter Kirk'" <peter AT qaya.org>, "'Yitzhak Sapir'" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Daniel 7:27 Aramaic verb PLX
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:49:19 +0200
According to Klein, the original meaning of the root was "to cleave, split",
and from there it developed "to plow, till the ground" and from there "to
worship".
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Daniel 7:27 Aramaic verb PLX
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> On 10/01/2007 22:07, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> > ...
> > HALOT provides various cognates and uses of this word in
> the meaning
> > "servant" or "laborer" or "agricultural laborer" including Jewish
> > Aramaic, Samaritan, Syriac, Neo Syriac, Arabic (loanword
> from Syriac),
> > Neo Aramaic, among others.
> >
> >