A witness (related to wit and video, German: wissen) means in English
a person who saw something and knows about it. To what manifestation
of his act the Hebrew appellation ED refers, we may only guess.
Possibly to ADAD, and possibly to OD.
Isaac Fried, Boson university
On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Chavoux Luyt wrote:
Hi
On 22 September 2013 18:00, <[email protected]>
wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Isaac Fried <[email protected]>
To: "Rev. Bryant J. Williams III" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], Mike Burke <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:34:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Numbers 16:21
The word עדה EDAH, 'congtegation', of the uni-literal root D,
appears to be a variant of עוד OD, 'more', and of עוּז UZ,
'collect', as in Ex. 9:19. Also of
עדד, עזז, עסס, עצץ, עשש
and also of
אד, אז, אט, אץ, אש, את
Hmmm, I always assumed it was rather related to עד ED (witness)
rather than עוד OD... :-); being a collection of witnesses to an
important event or message.
Shalom
Chavoux Luyt
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