According to Klein, the original meaning of the root was "to cleave, split",This certainly seems to fit the Hebrew sense "cleave, split", found in Job 16:13, 39:3, Proverbs 7:23, 2 Kings 4:39 (according to BDB), and the Arabic sense of "fellah" which is basically someone who works the ground. But perhaps in Aramaic as as presumably later in Arabic it came to have a more general meaning of "work".
and from there it developed "to plow, till the ground" and from there "to
worship".
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