Chris: I see no connection between pool, which is apparently an artificial one, and blessing. Both have exactly the same consonantal spelling, but that’s as far as it goes. There’s no documentation to tie the two together.
Karl W. Randolph. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Chris Watts <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, is there any tentative connection between the word: > ברך and ברכה (bless and pools respectively)? I remember > very long ago reading an article by a Rabbi (name forgotten) who made > a distinct an interesting case for the fact that Bless was not the > root but that bless came from the idea of a collection of water, this > latter concept being the root. It is because I can not find any > references to this idea that I am asking board members for their > qualified input, also I have read that the noun 'Knee' gave rise to > the verbal idea? Again am not able to access any reliable sources > about this. And thankyou in advance. > > Chris Watts > Ireland > > > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >
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