The Hebrew Language Viewed in the Light of Assyrian Research
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Words that occur on the tablets of Asurbani- pal's royal library are exempt from the charge of such origin. ^ As to some other Hebrew words, theii- foreign origin is disproved by their mere occurrence in Assyrian. It is scarcely credible that the ninth edition of Gesenius's dictio- nary still doubts the Semitic origin of ''SX, "ship," and ad- ' The light we gain in this respect from the cuneiform inscrip- tions is not confined to Hebrew; it extends to Semitic lexicography in general. A consider...able number of Targumic and Talmudic words, which Levy derives from the Greek in his dictionaries, occur in the Assyrian and Babylonian language, some in the very oldest documents. xiiax, "city gate"; Kjn&tt, "north wind"; XBl, "board, plank"; Sta^O or K5H''0, "sign," ft'''!!!*, "overseeer" or "watchman," which have been too rashly explained by the Greek i^i^ohl], o9evos, SditcSov, o-^[i.a and OTfifiEiov, oupo?, have their ancient Assyrian equivalents in ahmlu, istdnu, dofpa, simtu, simdrm and v/rdsu (for the latter word see Asurn.
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