I think we mentioned this before. I understand the root CB to mean 'large, inflated, copious, swollen, tumescent'. We have from it the verb CABAH צבה, 'to swell', of Nu. 5:27, the noun CABA) צבא, 'army, multitude', the verb CAB( צבע, (at least in the present-day sense) 'to paint, to cover by paint', and ECBA( אצבע 'finger', all related to the root YCB יצב, 'erect, set up', and TOB טוב 'good, solid, stable' (in present-day Hebrew TOBIYN, 'goods' is טובין). Hence the name CB-IY (the addendum -IY is, in my opinion, the personal pronoun 'he' for the thing itself) for the buxom (boxsome) animal with the tall and spreading antlers. I suspect that the letter ayin in (OPER עפר of Cant. 2:9 is but a muted tsade, so that OPER = COPER = CPIYR, essentially a CBIYR. The root CB is a variant of DB, ZB, TB, SB, $B, and we have from these the other animal names: CAB צב 'turtle, lizard?', DOB דוב 'bear', ZEEB זאב 'wolf', CABOA( צבוע 'hyena?'. The neophyte CIBYON צביון is, in my opinion, but $IWYON שוויון 'form', (see Is. 40:25) and has nothing to do with desire.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On May 9, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Pere Porta wrote: > My dictionary has three entries for CBY: > > 1. a noun meaning gazelle (Dt 12:15) > 2. a noun meaning beauty, honor (Is 28:5) > 3. a noun meaning north (Dn 8:9) > > and has noun CiBYWN, desire. This is not found in the Bible. > Hebrew has also noun PiRYWN, fertility, of PRY, fruit. > Remark that CBY and PRY belong to the same vowel pattern. > > Kind regards from > > Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
