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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ssade Can Be Emphatic Sin
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:30:12 -0500
C/S mutations effecting but a slight variation in the specific
meaning of a word
is common in Hebrew. An example that readily comes to mind is the acts
אצר ACAR and אסר ASAR, both related to אזר AZAR; and to more.
Interpreters of the Hebrew bible fancied to discern in CAPNAT of Gen.
41:45
the root צפן CPN, a variant of ספן and שפן SPN, 'covered,
hidden', as in
Hag. 1:4 and Deut. 33:19. Consequently they saw פענח PANEAX as
'reveal',
namely, 'the exposer of the things concealed'.
So much so, that PANEAX is routinely used now in spoken Hebrew for
'decipher, solve
a mystery'.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:39 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
ssade/C in early Biblical Hebrew can sometimes be an emphatic sin