Karl,

I read in your dictionary (2012  edition) that you have "caterpillar" as
the meaning of 'A$.
But........  'A$ means "moth", not "caterpillar", even though it is true
that a moth comes and is born from a catepillar...
Maybe you should amend this?

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
2013/6/19 K Randolph <[email protected]>

> Pere:
>
>  On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, Karl.
>> But we have to accept the oddity of a sentence like this:
>>
>> *....(they) will crush them before (or in front of) (the) moth.*
>>
>
> There are two different words, דכה DKH “to crush by pounding” and דכא DK)
> “to make low, humble”.
>
> “… they make them low before the face of a caterpillar.”
>
>>
>> …
>>  Pere Porta
>> Barcelona (Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
>>
>>
>> Karl W. Randolph.
>
>


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Pere Porta
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