Hello Isaac: Thanks for your explanation of the עולם root.
How would you apply that understanding to the meaning of עולם in jonah 2:6? "The bars of the earth surrounded me for a vast and lofty period of time?" Obviously, Jonah cannot be praying for relief from "eternity" because eternity changes not. regards, fred burlingame On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > I see the root (LM, or merely LM, as consisting of the combination of the > single-consonant root L, 'lofty', and the single-consonant root M, 'massive, > vast'. in the HB, (OLAM is mostly applied to time, but is nowadays used also > for space, in the sense of 'universe, world'. > In the word ELEM, the reference is to the body. > The root עלם appears also in the form אלם, as in אלומה, 'sheaf, large > pile', and אולם, 'large hall'. Nowadays אלים is 'bully, intimidator'. > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > > > On Dec 11, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote: > > Jenni holds that its basic meaning "most distant times" >> > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
