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How can a word come from the Bible? It must have existed before the Bible in order to have a meaning inside of it. Or did you mean to write it came from Aramaic
by namblooc 6mo ago
How can a word come from the Bible? It must have existed before the Bible in order to have a meaning inside of it. Or did you mean to write it came from Aramaic?
- beagle3 6mo agoI mean that it already appears in the Bible, in old Hebrew (which is close to, but isn’t exactly Aramaic), with the meaning “to feed and provide” - and I did not find any documentation about how it formed (or came into) Hebrew. Which means of course m, that it was already in use before the Bible was canonicalized.
- shakna 6mo agoHebrew is a reconstructed language. Whilst some roots will predate the Torah, most won't. Several words, like the infamous "shibboleth" won't be inherited, or their meanings may wildly differ.