No, Fred, there is a common root meaning. It is just not easily expressed in English as a single word. In other words, there is no one-to-one correspondence between the Hebrew and English.
Two suggestions were given when this was discussed before. Check your archives. The word is neither elusive nor are the meanings incapable of being bound together. Oh, and just out of curiosity, what is the "plain root meaning" of קדש? You might want to check that your English word does indeed match the entire range of the Hebrew concept. Paul Zellmer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fred burlingame Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:29 PM To: Randall Buth Cc: Hebrew Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Jerusalem (was nifty) קדש represents a nice word to interpret, with a plain root meaning to set apart. And the applied meanings to set apart for bad or good come naturally. That elusive פקד word we discussed earlier contains no such easy common root meaning to bind all of the varied applied usages together. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
