Your analysis of חיל meanings sounds reasonable to me.
But the $64.00 question continues. When you read these two verses (numbers
31:9,14) in hebrew and then in english translation, does the substance
appear different to you?
It comes across different to me, with the hebrew having a more varied or
complex meaning than the english.
regards,
fred burlingame
Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> It appears to me that חיל is from the root חל, which is a member of the
> root family
> גל, הל, חל, כל, קל
> essentially meaning 'include, amass, accumulate, garner'. Notice the
> related word XEL of Isaiah 26:1.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:03 PM, fred burlingame wrote:
>
> The meanings of "hayil" are related
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