Almost, Nir - Arabic has عثّ (root <ain><tha'><tha'>), a root certainly cognate
to the Hebrew root עשש.
John Leake
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From: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <[email protected]>
To: K Randolph <[email protected]>
Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 23:07
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ($ (job 4:19)
arabic also has ($ = moth.
nir cohen
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:49:08 -0700, K Randolph wrote
> Nir:
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
karl,
>>
>> >>>This is an animal that eats clothing Isaiah 50:9, and builds houses Job
>> 27:18. This description fits a caterpillar that becomes a moth.
>>
>> how about termites?
>>
>> nir cohen
>>
>>
> I’ll have to admit that I never considered termites.
>
> 1) because the dictionaries I worked from all mentioned “moth” and
> caterpillars are immature moths (even in English we talk about “moth eaten”
> when in reality it’s the caterpillars, not the adult moths, that do the
> damage).
>
> 2) Do termites have a reputation for eating cloth? I haven’t heard of it.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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