Karl, the technical term for your concept (as I'm sure you know) is 'language interference' or 'second language interference'. Of course it is a problem. But the same must be true, though, within Biblical Hebrew itself of different periods, though I can't think of examples.
Uri's right in that we can't interrogate Biblical Hebrew speakers (or our own knowledge of the language) for a broader context for a word that might only appear a couple of times in the Bible
Open UniversityJohn Leake
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