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Links | Jason M. H. Gaines

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Jason M. H. Gaines. Studies in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. The Poetic Priestly Source. Below are links to websites that I believe students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East will find especially interesting. (This list is still barely begun. Please contact me if you have a site to recommend! The Society of Biblical Literature offers online Textual Resources from the German Bible Society. For SBL members (login required), including online and downloadable versions of.

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: shachor

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006. שחור - "black" related to shachar. The best way to tell would be to see if there are common or divergent etymologies. Klein, who tends to be more conservative in these questions, shows different derivations. Shachor. He writes, is related to Syrian שוחרא shuchra. Meaning "coal". On the other hand, shachar. Is related to Moabite שחרת, JAram שחרא, Arabic sahar. Steinberg also provides different etymologies. He writes that shachar. Quotes a couple of Rabbinic sources:. Black"- -bec...

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: apiryon

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Monday, April 16, 2007. During Pesach we read Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs / Canticles), and I thought we'd look at some interesting words in this book. Verse 3:9 reads as follows:. אַפִּרְיוֹן, עָשָׂה לוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה- מֵעֲצֵי, הַלְּבָנוֹן. King Shlomo made him an apiryon. Of wood from Levanon". What is this apiryon. It appears only here, and is generally translated as a palanquin. A closed bed with poles, carried on the shoulders of four bearers. Many scholars believe that the word apiryon. Did n...

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: pardes and paradise

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Friday, December 28, 2007. I'm trying to get back in to writing again. After spending several weeks indexing my sources, I thought I was ready to go. But it turned out that my home computer wasn't working well (talk about the shoemaker's child going barefoot! So I was delayed again. Of course it made sense to discuss the word pardes. פרדס itself, and its connection to the English word "paradise". Here's Klein's entry for pardes. The first definition is the biblical one):. 1 park, orchard. C1175, "Garden ...

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: nitzul, hatzala and hitnatzlut

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Monday, March 23, 2015. Nitzul, hatzala and hitnatzlut. In Israel's last election cycle, there was much mention of the word hitnatzel. התנצל - to apologize. This is the hitpael. Form of the root נצל. In its other forms, the root has very different meanings. The piel form nitzel. ניצל, means "to exploit" or "to utilize". And the hifil. And if the word for apologizing ( lehitnatzel. Wasn't a reflexive form of the word for ‘taking advantage of’ ( lenatzel. For more on freier. See my post here. התנצלות - "ap...

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: arnak

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015. A reader asked if there is any connection between the Hebrew word for wallet or purse - ארנק arnak. And the French word arnaque. To swindle" (perhaps due to antisemitic associations between Jews and money). That doesn't seem to be the case (not that there's no precedence for antisemitism in language, years ago I heard about how the ASL sign for "Jew" was the same as the one for "stingy". Which in turn comes from a German word for harness - " harnacher. May also be the source.

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: uchmanit

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Thursday, August 31, 2006. Now that we've covered the basic colors, we'll look at a few words in Hebrew based on colors in related Semitic languages. As we've seen before. אוכמה means black in Aramaic. From here we get the word. אוכמנית - blackberry. All nice and good, except that I always learned that. Well, it turns out that. Means both blueberry and blackberry in Hebrew. Although this may be due to the fact that the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Does not know what a blackberry is. If you look up.

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: tik

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Monday, April 27, 2015. A friend recently asked me why Hebrew used the same word - tik. תיק - for both "bag, satchel" and "file, dossier, portfolio". This is one of those cases where knowing the etymology helps. Has been around in Hebrew for a long time, going back to the mishna (Shabbat 16:1 mentions a tik. For a torah scrolll and tefillin, meaning a case or box). However, the Hebrew word was borrowed from the Greek theke. Meaning "receptacle, that which is placed". So a tik. Case," from Greek theke.

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: koh-i-noor

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008. In my post about pinkas. I showed an example of an Israeli notepad. If you noticed, the picture said "Kohinor". When I first came to Israel, those notepads were so common, that the name brand became almost generic, like Xerox or Kleenex (the term for this is apparently synecdoche. I realize now that Kohinor is the product of Machberet Millenium of Holon. But they got the name from the famous Koh-I-Noor. Mike sent me the following entry:. Hump', OPers. kaofa-. Meaning "mounta...

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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: Who is Balashon?

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Is David Curwin. I grew up in the US (Rochester, NY; San Francisco; Boston) and have lived in Israel since 1996. I am not a professional linguist, but have had a lifelong love of language, particularly the history of words (as a young kid I could read through the etymologies in the dictionary for hours). While this site does take up a lot of my time (a labor of love), it is not my career. I am a system administrator for a large organization in Jerusalem. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Google.