1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang January 2000
2 49 23_Further Comments on DBR14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:07:50 -0500 (EST)612_- Gavin Melles writes >>>>>>>> Brown, Driver and Briggs relate it to DBR probably on a historical derivation of MN+DBR=MDBR. You have, of course, /deber/ 'pestilence'. BDB note /bamidbar/ in MT at 1 S 4,8 should read /badeber/. /Dober/ as 'pasture' with Aramaic and Syriac cognates is in Mi2,13. According to BDB the word is polysemous with 4 meanings cited. So other words may suggest a derivation through 'pestilence' or 'pasture land' and the term is polysemous anyway. Some other examples of roots DBR and treatments are in James Barr Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament >>>>>>>>>>> [...]