The act NAXAR is to blow air through the nostrils, NXIYR-AYIM (Job 41: (20)12). The root NXR is related to NHR, 'flow, stream', as in NAHAR, 'river', NHAR-AH, 'shining, flood of light, outpouring of emotions', and MI-NHAR-AH, 'cave, tunnel'; and to NGR, 'spill, pour out, effuse' (see 2Sam 14:14). What is certain is that NAXAR is only apparently onomatopoeic.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:45 PM, [email protected] wrote: > The Hebrew meaning of NXWR is as a variant of the Hebrew common > word NXR _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
