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Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics is unavailable, but you can change that!

When first published in 1983, Biblical Words and Their Meaning broke new ground by introducing to students of the Bible the principles of linguistics, in particular, on lexical semantics—that branch that focuses on the meaning of individual words. Silva’s structural approach provides the interpreter with an important lexical tool for more responsible understanding of the biblical text and more...

integrated into a coherent and linguistically sound view of Hebrew. We may illustrate this last point by noting the abundance of homonyms that would be created if we were to accept these proposals. James Barr, for example, has collected no fewer than six unrelated proposed meanings for the verb yada’ (‘to know’).21 Although it would be a serious mistake to dismiss the method altogether, every proposal must be carefully scrutinized and evaluated on the basis of established semantic principles, such
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