Karl and Pere, Thanks very much for your responses, and for excusing my failure to use Hebrew fonts and unconventional transliterations sometimes.
I agree that the verbs in question probably aren't cognate - i.e., unless we attribute them to a primitive, monoconsonantal root consisting of peh alone OTOH, as Harris, Archer, and Waltke point out in The Theological Workbook to the OT, petah appears with peh 'mouth' in Mic7:5, and petah is a form of patah 'to open' which appears twenty-three times with peh 'mouth' , six times with the saphah 'lips in the semantically equivalent phrase, and seven times with ayin 'eyes. So I think that petah is certainly semantically identical to peqach. Bill At 05:09 PM 4/13/2012 K Randolph, wrote: >While I list the two terms as synonyms in my >dictionary, they have distinctly different meanings as listed below. > >×¤×§× to open in the sense of giving vision, hearing > >×¤×ª× to open, the basic sense is to open a >hole, opening, door â to dig or engrave a >hole, ditch, groove as in writing, furrow in >field, carving in relief on a wall or door >As for Gesenius, he is wrong in so many places >that I no longer take anything he wrote at face >value. In fact, my dictionary started out as >corrections in the margins of his dictionary as >I read Tanakh through over and over again. > >As for etymology, without clear examples to >guide us, is mere speculation with a greater chance of being wrong than right. > >Karl W. Randolph. > >On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Bill ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >Greetings! > >I was just wondering if anybody could tell me whether the Hebrew >verbs peqach and petah 'to open' are today considered as cognate as >Gesenius claimed they are in his lexicon, and if so, what the >original root could have been. > >Thanks very much for any insight anyone can give me into the origin >of these words and any possible relationship. > >Sincerely, >Bill Schmidt _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
