----- Original Message ----- From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "fred burlingame" <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
Cc: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] lock without a key
As I have said before, in contrast to English, Hebrew is a root based language,***
I don't know what you mean exactly by "root".
In all cases English and Germanic in general has phenomena similar to Semitic: foot, feet ; long, length ; drink, drank, drunk.
A.
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with a resulting vast interconnectivity between different
words derived from the same (or similar) root of a very basic meaning. The root חל (a variant of***
גל, גלל, הל, הלל, חל, חלל, כל, כלל, קל, קלל)
essentially means 'amass, accumulate'. In Numbers 31:9 חיל refers to the mass of earthly holdings , while in numbers 31:14 it refers to a mass of men.
Consider the the very first biblical verb ברא commonly translated as "created". But can I can get an inkling of its intended meaning only by relating it to the roots פרא, פרה, פרע
Isaac Fried, Boston University
You may be interested to read what Bohas says about these word "matrices".
http://books.google.fr/books?id=kULevL4pifMC&dq=bohas+matrices
http://books.google.fr/books?id=b0snLJ8aE_8C&dq=bohas%20matrices
It's in French...
A.
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