Babel: The Akkadian Bab-ilu means "gate of God". a loan translation from an earlier Sumerian term, Ka-dingir. Trilateral root of bAb (gate or door)+ Il , The Semitic diety In the Canaanite religion, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the goddess Asherah as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit. BAb has medial alif.
------------------------------------- Ba`l : a trilateral root with a medial letter `ayn. NO relation to bAb. Ba`l has several meanings and derivatives in various Semitic languages besides Hebrew, ( i.e. Ugaritic, Arabic, etc.) These are the following: 1) The name of many deities of the Semitic peoples. 2) He became a husband, a lord over him, A lord, a master, an owner, or a possessor. A chief, a ruler, a person of authority. 3) He became fixed in his place like as do palm trees not knowing what to do, hence he became confounded and perplexed. ( no relation to Babel). 4) The playing and toying together of a man with his wife, he lay with her. 5) A weight or a burden, A tax or impost that is given for watering of palm trees. 6) Lacking strength or power, 7) does not dress well. 8) Palm trees watered by rain, and finally 9) elevated land. Best regards, Ishinan Ishibashi _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
